PM Modi releases book penned by LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

PM Modi releases book penned (लिखित) by LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released a book Matoshree, based on life of Maratha Queen Ahilyabai Holkar, authored by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. After the release, a play based on the book was staged at Balayogi Auditorium(सभागार) in the Parliament Library Building with the Prime Minister, several Union ministers and MPs in attendance(उपस्थिति).

Mahajan said she had written the play more than 35 years ago as a volunteer(स्वयंसेवक) of the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, womens wing of the RSS. Mahajan, the Lok Sabha MP from Indore, said through the play she wanted to show "an Indian way of good administration(प्रशासन)".

Ahilyabai, daughter-in-law of Maratha chieftain Malhar Rao Holkar, was the Queen of Indore from 1767 to 1795.

Organised by Avirat, an Indore-based group active in Marathi and Hindi theatre, the play was directed by Rajan Deshmukh.

BOOK NAME-Matoshree

based on life of Maratha Queen Ahilyabai Holkar.

Authored by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

Released BY Prime Minister Narendra Modi .

Definitions of pen 

लिखित

verb

write or compose.

he had not penned a line to Lizzie in three years

synonyms: write, compose, draft, dash off, write down, jot down, set down, take down, scribble

put or keep (an animal) in a pen.

it was the practice to pen the sheep for clipping

synonyms: confine, coop (up), cage, shut in, box up/in, lock up/in, trap, imprison, incarcerate, immure