Bhopal

Seminar on Sindhi journalism concludes

Staff Reporter

The two-day seminar on Sindhi journalism concluded here on Sunday. The seminar was organised by Union Human Resource Development Ministry and Akhand Sindhu Sansar newspaper.

On Sunday, a discussion on newspapers and magazines was held. During the discussion Kamla Goklani from Ajmer talked about literary journalism. later, the chief editor of monthly newspaper of Bhopal Aman-e-Hind Dev Jhurani highlighted about his newspaper.

Kishore Kodwani from Indore talked about the newspapers Matrabhoomi and Shakuntala. The newspapers were set up in year 1960 by Deepak Kodwani. Kishore highlighted about the readership and popularity of these newspapers. later, Ishwar Jhamnani talked about broadcast journalism.

During the discussions writers like KR Malkani talked about lal Krishna Advani and his interest in journalism along with politics. At the discussion, Ashok Manwani said that GG Mirchandani had a great contribution in the enrichment of Univarta News Agency (Hindi service of UNI).

later, Raj Kumar Keswani presented his research paper. He talked about Bhopal Gas Tragedy and reporting that was done during that period. In this research paper, detailed information about the articles written by Sindhi journalists of Madhya Pradesh in Hindi and English newspapers was given.

In next session of the discussion Roshan Golani from Ahamdabad, Suresh Bablani from Ajmer and Ballu Choithani from Bhopal presented their research papers. Further, Harish Meghani from Jaipur, Dilip Parwani, Kamla Goklani from Ajmer, Chandar Savnani from Ahmadabad, Deepak Chandvani from Bhusawal, Prem Tanwani from Raipur, Sanjay Khubchandani from Katni, Chandan Behrani from Shehdol, Shyam Shivdasani, Manoj Budhwani, Vijay Dusesa from Bilaspur and others were present.