Thursday, December 30, 2010

CEC S Y Quraishi Received The Hali Award

Chandigarh: 27th December 2010, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi received the Hali Award for a lot of his work in the field of literature from Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia. He was bestowed the award during organized ceremony in the honor of several prominent litterateurs.
S Y Quraishi got the Hali Award for 2008-09 for Urdu literature and for 2009-10 to Urdu writer Ramesh Chander Puhal.
Pahadia announced the institution of 10 new awards for Urdu litterateurs, after giving various awards for the years 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia also announced the institution of a lifetime achievement award also include with Rs.1.51 lakh in cash.
New awards would motivate Urdu litterateurs and help in promotion of Urdu language. Urdu is too simpler, easier and traditional language. It was started in India, at that time it was thought as Muslims language but infact isn’t any religion or region language, everybody should try o learn Urdu because it is historical language and receptive for words of other languages.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Urdu news Channel—Aalami Sahara

New Delhi: Sahara News Network launched broadcast Urdu news channel “Aalami Sahara”, it’ll broadcast news in 54 countries. The company is a part of business firm Sahara India, which published a weekly-magazine Aalmi Sahara, Urdu daily Roznama Rashtriya Sahara, and a monthly-tabloid Bazm-e-Sahara.
Urdu is spoken in many countries special in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Urdu is national language of Pakistan. Sahara news network editor and news director Upendra Rai said, “In India, there are more than nine crore people, who speak and understand Urdu... there is a huge market opportunity that we are looking at tapping while presenting news to these viewers in their own language.”
"We are targeting to reach 25 million households in the first year," he said. This channel would be broadcast in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and many other countries also. This channel will get success sooner in these countries as compare to other countries.
Sahara News Network has national Hindi news channel 'Samay' and regional news channel under the brand name of 'Sahara Samay'.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Urdu Poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

The name of Faiz Ahmed Faiz needs no introduction to the Urdu speaking people. He is truly one of the greatest poets the Urdu language has seen. In his times and around there is only one Urdu poet whose wits can be compared to Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The name of that poet is Habib Jalib.
Other than Habib Jalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz is considered the only poet who raised his voice against tyrant rulers. Some people also compare Faiz Ahmed Faiz to the legendary Urdu poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
It is true that Allama Iqbal also wrote some great Urdu poems. Nevertheless, he was in good books of the British too. In this contrast, Faiz Ahmed Faiz had to face bans and even imprisonment. The imprisonment of Faiz Ahmed Faiz was not for some days. In fact, it was for nine whole years that Faiz Ahmed Faiz was imprisoned.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz also had an unconventional married life. He married a very noble French lady. She converted to Islam before marriage. She spent her entire life in Pakistan. In fact, she was the one who always remained extremely sincere with Faiz Ahmed Faiz. She never left Pakistan after his death. Moreover, she took care of her and Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s children in an exemplary way.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

The forms of plagiarism in Urdu literature

The Urdu literature has a serious problem of plagiarism, which hinders its growth. In fact, the plagiarism does not only hinder the growth of the Urdu language but also earns it a very bad name in the international community.
There are three major types of plagiarism, contaminating the Urdu language and literature. The brief explanations of the types of Urdu plagiarism are as follows.
  • Blatant lifting
Undoubtedly, the Urdu literature has seen some great writers, authors, and poets. However, they are bound to get discouraged when their own so-called counterparts blatantly lift their pieces.
  • Translations without giving any credit
It seems that in Pakistan no one knows the meanings of the copyrights. In Pakistan, there is a constant spread of an evil trend. People are earning their living by stealing literary and informative pieces from other languages and translating it to Urdu. They never give credit to the real writers.
  • The ‘compilations’
People simple do not have any respect for intellectual property of someone. Some publishing houses compile popular pieces by several different writers and publish them as a book. People also lack knowledge and they start buying it because in total they do not have to give as much money.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Tribute paid to Urdu poet

Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik rector of International Islamic University has said that Noon Meem Rashid was the leading Urdu poet who broke domination of traditional Urdu poetry and brought acknowledgment to the modern free poetic genre.
One-day seminar organized by Urdu Department at Oriental College Sheerani Hall, on 100th birth anniversary of Noon Meem Rashid. Fateh Muhammad Malik said Noon Meem Rashid was poet, critic and essayist. He also said Rashid had a unique command of Urdu language and was known for his love for humanity.
Prof Fakhar-ul-Haq Noori Chairman of Urdu Department gave an account of Noon Meem Rashid’s life and his poetic contribution. In his presidential address, Prof Dr Mujahid kamran Vice Chancellor of Punjab University said, the Oriental College had played an important role in the promotion of Urdu literature and poetry in subcontinent.
Principal of Oriental College Dr Mazhar Moeen, Nasreen Rashid, late poet’s daughter and Prof Dr. Mahmood Akhtar also addressed the ceremony. Later Dr Kamran gave away shields to Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik, Nasreen Rashid, Dr Fakhar-ul-Haq Noori, Dr Saadat Saeed, Prof Kh Muhammad Zakria, Prof Omar Ali Zaidi and other Urdu scholars.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Urdu Literature—in India

Urdu is traditional language which is started from past and still has more value, but with the passage of time it mixed with many other languages. In past it was started with three languages those were: Arabic, Persian and Turkish but now it’s also mixed with English and Hindi.
Urdu for being national language has more value in Pakistan and many Urdu writers are detected in Pakistan, but in India Urdu also found many Urdu writers. Urdu vocabulary has enormous reserve of literary words those are elegant and meaningful. In past if we see the first push to Urdu poetry was Amir Khusro. His poetry is still read, centuries after his death. The strongest phase of Urdu poetry was during 16th and 17th century that saw many famous poets and writers during the Muslim reign in Bijapur, Deccan and Golconda in India.
In India many famous authors have written Novels in Urdu language. These novels highlight different aspects of society. In Urdu, novel writers flourished in India as well as countries like Pakistan and other Urdu speaking nations. Many Urdu poets are found in India Urdu poetry is one of the most vivid and colorful fields of poetry that is read with much admiration even in contemporary world.