Indrakeel Natya Manch mourns passing away of founder-member

NAMCHI, 25 May: The Indrakeel Natya Manch (INAM) has mourned the demise of its senior artist, Mrs. Dhana Maskey [Dhan Maya Pradhan] who passed away on 17 May at Rani-Gaon, Assangthang, South Sikkim.
The chief coordinator of the Manch, Roshan Kaushik, in a press release issued today, informs that INAM members have prayed for the departed soul and conveyed their condolence to the bereaved family.
“She was one of the founder-members of INAM who had performed in more than a dozen of theatre plays such as the blockbuster ‘Ani Deorali Runchha’, ‘Gatthe Juwain’, ‘Pahuna’ and many thers and contributed to the survival of theatre culture. Her demise is a great loss to the society. She had struggled a lot in her life to sustain the theatre culture in the state,” the release states, while adding that the younger generation had learned a lot from her and even benefitted for her later role as Panchayat President of Assangthang GPU.
INAM has called on its members to attend her last rites scheduled for 26 May.

INAM has also mourned the demise of the father of its former chief coordinator Ganesh Rana Manger of Sambong South Sikkim and informs its members to attend the last rites on 27 May.