Urdu is a secular language - Governor (part 2)

Focusing the importance revival of linguistic heritage, Governor said in fact, the real friends of India were found in Arab countries which were readily extending their cooperation in matters of providing oil and natural gas.India was commonly known for promotion of values of pluralism from times immemorial and will continue to promote Urdu as part of its constitutional duty, Mr Bharadwaj added.

The purpose of two day Urdu meet was to provide platform for luminaries of the language to exchange ideas with regards to the status of Urdu in India and abroad, and discuss the measure to taken for the protection of the language and the cultures associated with it.

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Urdu is a secular language - Governor (part 1)

Governor of Karnataka H R Bharadwaj said to promote better Indo Pak relations strong religious tolerance is required between Hindus and Muslims in the country.  While addressing the world Urdu meet here on Wednesday December 29, 2010 in Bangalore. 

 He said "The politicisation of cultural values like saying Urdu belongs to only a particular community, is misleading". He termed Urdu language as a secular language which is indepent of religion as well as region. Mr Bharadwaj said the language is lingua franca of the masses in India and had survived through all odds and will continue to thrive. Urdu language has co-existed with several other languages like Kannada, Telugu, Kashmiri, Punjabi, and Hindi in many states across India, he added.

Urdu language originated in the region from New Delhi, he said, adding some vested interest was working against the secular values of Urdu Language.

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Ashfaque Mushhadi, An Urdu Journalist to be felicitated by Madhya Pradesh Government (part 1)

Special Correspondent of Rashtriya Urdu Sahara, Madhya Pradesh was honored with Hakim Qamur-ul-Hassan, a national level award for Urdu journalist by Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy on Thursday, December 23, 2010.

Some other personalities were also awarded with national level awards: : 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.

Ashfaque Mushhadi, An Urdu Journalist to be felicitated by Madhya Pradesh Government (part 2)

Madhaya Perdesh Urdu Acadmey awarded national and state level awards to various personalities for their commendable service towards Urdu Language.

The awardees were honored by cash awards, mementos and shawls at the award ceremony. The president of the ceremony was distinguished poet Padameshri Dr. Basheer Badr, Chairperson of Urdu Academy and the chief guest was Member of Parliement Kailash Joshi and Ex-MP Kailash Sarang, BJP leader Rameshwar Sharma and Madhya Commissioner for Minority Welfare Raghuveer Shrivastav was be guests of honor.

Tribute Paid to Urdu Poet, Noon Meem Rashid

Rector of International Islamic University, Islamabad Professor Fateh Muhmamad Malik said “Noon Meem Rashid was the pioneer Urdu poet who broke monopoly of traditional Urdu poetry and brought recognition to the modern free poetic genre”, while addressing one day a one day seminar to pay tribute to great Urdu poet Noon Meem Rashid on his 100^th birthday.

The seminar was organized by Urdu Department of Oriental College at Sheerani Hall on December 21, 2010.

Mr. Malik further added” Meem Rashid was poet first and a prose writer, critic and essayist second”. He said “Rashid belonged to a rare breed of Urdu poets who had unique command of Urdu language and was known for his love for humanity.”

Man-o-Salwa- An Intriguing Urdu Novel

Man-o-Salwa is an intriguing Urdu novel written by Umera Ahmed. Umera Ahmed is a great Urdu storywriter, novel writer, and scriptwriter.

She started writing almost a decade ago and became popular very soon. The theme of the Urdu novel Man-o-Salwa revolves around the idea of earning Halal and Haram Income. In this novel, Umera Ahmed has compared the Muslims of today with the Bani Israel. Allah Almighty used to provide them with Halal things to eat but soon they became fed up of them. The names of those eating delicacies were man and Salwa. Bani Israel started demanding things that grow from the ground like onion etc.

Phases in Evolution of Urdu Language

Urdu is part of the Indo-Aryan family. The background of this language originates from Saur Senic Prakit. Sanskrit was evolved from Saur Senic Prakit but later Saur Senic Prakit.was majorly influence by Hindi dialects

The evolutionary phase is majorly affected by the literature of Insha. The Insha’s literature work later, took a form of picture of new language which is commonly known as Urdu these days. In the result of this, Urdu and Hindi were differentiated that time. Cultural impact on the society also played major role in evolution of Urdu language because Muslim of the subcontinent used to speak Urdu or Farsi and Hindus used to speak Hindi. The difference between both languages was very clear that Urdu was derived from Persian, Arabic and Turkish, on the other hand  Hindi was derived from Sanskrit.

Urdu, English and Systems of Pakistan (part 1)

English Language is essential to be learned as English is nowadays a common language through which whole world can communicate, but learning English is not much import than acquiring a skill. It’s a fact that, the issue of primary language of instruction is major barrier in child’s creativity and understanding towards the education. One of the prime reasons that Pakistan is ways far behind from other countries in progress is the educational system forces youth to learns skills in English instead of Urdu language.

Urdu, English and Systems of Pakistan (part 2)

Pakistan as a nation is losing all its identities Pakistan was founded on the name of Islam, One can barely see true religious activities going on in Pakistan. Pakistan second most prominent identity is Urdu language and Urdu is treated so miserably in Pakistan that, I am afraid that Urdu will fade out in next few decades.

International Urdu Conference 2010 Concluded

The third International Urdu Conference Concluded on last Sunday, December 5, 2010. Various outstanding programs were held in during four Day Event at Art Council Karachi.

The purpose of the Conference was 200^th Death anniversary of Emperor of Urdu Language Mir Taqi Mir and service of Sir Muhammad Iqbal the poet of the East towards Urdu Language.