Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy Culture Department is organising the Dastan-e-Marsiya at State Museum here on Monday. The event will start at 6:30 pm.
It is to be noted that Daastan-e-Marsiya is not different from Dastaan-e-Goi. It will be presented by Jashni Bahar Trust, New Delhi as ‘Dastan-e-Marsiya from Karbala to Kashi’. The act is directed by Kamana Prasad and Aparna Srivastava. The presenters of the show are the first female presenters of Dastango Fouzia and Feroz and Heena Kausar.
To mark the event, a seminar on Marsiya will also be held in which Taqi Abadi from Kannada and Jaleel-ur-Rehman from Burhanpur will recite their books written on Marsiya. Apart from this Ali Abbas from Bhopal will express his views on Marsiyagoi.
Nusrat Mehdi, the secretary of Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy while informing about the Marsiya Goi said that Marsiya is a form of elegiac poetry which was first written to commemorate the martyrdom of Hussain ibn Ali and his comrades of Karbala (a Sunni shrine in Iraq), but gradually it gained popularity as a form of poetry not just across the Indian subcontinent, but also across the globe.
She further informed that it has a special way of reading which called Marsiya Khawani. In India, the Murcia Nigari started in Deccan in the 16th century. Slowly and gradually it reached these northern India. Although, it is said that it became popular all over India, but in the 19th century there was plenty of flowering and festivities in lucknow. It will be an interesting event for the poetry and literature lovers of the city, she added.