Katni (Madhya Pradesh): A team of the information and technology committee of the Rajya Sabha presided over by Niranjan Bissi arrived in Katni on January 10. The team will impart knowledge about archaeology and about how to check cyber crime.
At a meeting held in a hotel, the team also mulled over forming a digital depository. Divisional commissioner Ajay Verma, collector Dileep Kumar Yadav, superintendent of police Abhijeet Kumar Ranjan and other officials were present at the meeting. The members of the team visited the archaeological sites on Jhinjhari hillocks. Bissi also released a book published by the Katni chapter of the Indian National Trust for Cultural Heritage (INTACH), “Bharat Ke Hridaysthal Se Uthte Pacheli Ke Geet.”
The book consists of songs written in Pacheli dialect, which is the mixture of Bundeli, Bagheli, Gondi, Khari Hindi and Urdu languages. Fifteen authors composed songs for this book. Scholars like George Abraham Grierson and Rai Bahadur Hiralal also spoke about this language in their works. Although the language is spoken in a larger area, there is no book on it.
A book edited by Sharad Agarwal, ‘Pacheli Sahitya and Sanakriti’ was published in 2017. Afterwards, the litterateurs of the region began to write in this language. A litterateur from Sihora, Surendra Bagri, is working on a dictionary of the Pacheli language.
