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Bhopal: The Urdu literary awards of
Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy were presented in a glittering
function at the Mulla Ramuzi Sanskriti Bhavan here on Thursday
evening in the presence of overflowing gathering of Urdu lovers.
The national and state level awards were presented by former
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and sitting Member of Parliament
Kailash Joshi, who was the chief guest, noted poet Padamshree Dr.
Basheer Badr, who is chairman of the Urdu Academy presided over
the gala function, along with ex-MP Kailash Narain Sarang to the
Urdu litterateurs amidst thunderous applause.
The awardees were presented cheques, mementos and shawls at the
award ceremony. The Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy had announced the
national and State level awards for 2010-11 recently. The awards
are conferred for commendable services provided to the Urdu
language by litterateurs.
Speaking on the occasion Kailash Joshi lauded the activities of
the Urdu Academy and stressed that promotion and propagation of
Urdu language is the need of the hour. He said in the last more
than 500 years different people and races have been coming to
India and there was a need felt for a common language for one and
all. Urdu language, thus, evolved by the amalgamation of various
languages. It started to be spoken for last several hundred years
by the common man and the elite and the magic of the language due
to its richness and depth spread all over the country.
However, Joshi lamented that in the present era there seems to be
some indifference towards this language and it is languishing. The
rot which has set in due to negligence by the people should be
arrested and the pristine glory of the Urdu language restored with
the hope that the new generation would adopt it in a big way.
He moaned that the new generation is neither attracted towards
Urdu nor to Hindi but feels pride in learning English language
alone because the society has given more importance than it is due
to it. Taking up the learning of English only and neglecting Urdu
and Hindi which are their mother tongues is a great disservice to
these Indian languages, he remarked.
Kailash Sarang, who was the guest of honour on the occasion,
bemoaned that Urdu which was his language has been associated with
Muslims alone. This notion should be done away with and through
Urdu Academy efforts should be made that the people of all faiths
and creeds take up learning of Urdu language without having bias
towards it. He said the Madhya Pradesh Government had increased
the budget of Urdu Academy so that Urdu language could spread its
wings and more and more people motivate their children to study
it. If need be initiatives could be taken to get the budget of the
Urdu Academy increased, he added.
Maulana Ashfaque Mushhadi Nadwi, Madhya Pradesh Special
Correspondent of Rashtriya Urdu Sahara, who was honoured with
national level Hakim Qamr-ul-Hasan award for Urdu journalists,
presented a paper on the occasion. The title of the paper was
“Urdu Sahafat Andeshe Aur Imkanat”. He said in the paper that
today is spoken and read more in the country than before and its
future is bright. To buttress his point he gave the examples of
“Dawat” and “Rashtriya Sahara” which can be seen in the country.
“Dawat” is example of missionary spirit while “Rashtriya Sahara”
is true picture of professionalism, Maulana Ashfaque asserted. The
two streams which these two Urdu newspapers have carved out others
can tread on these paths in Urdu journalism and strive to reach
its zenith, he added.
Earlier, Ms Nusrat Mehdi, secretary MP Urdu Academy, welcomed the
guests and threw light on the various activities of the academy to
promote Urdu language and literature.
Mirza Jafar Baig, vice chairman of the Urdu Academy, while
proposing vote of thanks said apart from honouring Urdu
litterateurs and publishing their books, holding Mushairas (poetic
meets), the Academy is doing basic work of conducting coaching
classes of Urdu language. The Urdu coaching classes are being
conducted in different cities of the state by the Academy wherein
people of different religion and faiths are taking advantage of it
and learning Urdu language, he added.
Others felicitated with the national-level awards included: Zafar
Sehbai for the Meer Taqi Meer Award, Qaiser Siddiqui for the Hamid
Saeed Khan award, Ishrat Wahid for Shadan Indori Award and Mushtaq
Waleed for the Johar Qureshi award.
While those conferred State-level awards were: Shakeel Gwaliori
for the Siraj Meer Khan Sehar award, Shan Fakhri for the Basit
Bhopali award, Abdul Hai Anjum for the Mohamed Ali Taj award,
Iqbal Girami for the Nawab Siddique Hasan Khan award, Farukh Anjum
for the Sheri Bhopali award, Khalida Siddiqui for the Kaif Bhopali
award, Om Prabhakar for the Sukhan award and Qazi Malik Naved for
the Shifa Gwaliori award.
The programme was conducted by Abdul Mannan Khan.
Meanwhile, an All India Mushaira was held on the occasion after
the awards presentation ceremony. The Mushaira was compeered by
poet Mansoor Usmani of Moradabad. Mohammad Anees Ansari of Urdu
Academy gave a brief account of the poets who participated in the
Mushaira. (pervezbari@eth.net)
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