An event ‘Talaash e Jauhar: Lecture and Workshop’ was held at Swaraj Bhavan on Tuesday.
The event was organized by Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy, Sanskriti Parishad, Department of Culture under the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi. The young creators were guided by experts Farooq Anjum and Nafisa Sultana Ana in the workshop.
In the beginning of the programme, Bhopal's local district coordinator Syed Abid Hussain welcomed the guests and participants. After the welcome remarks, the jury of the Philbadih competition, Farooq Anjum and Nafisa Sultana Ana, gave two types of poems.
Aparna Patrikar of Bhopal and Mohd. Insaf of Vidisha got first, Chanderi's Masghul Mehrabani and Rahul Sharma second and Bhopal's Mustafa Saifi third with the joint decision of the jury on the basis of their presentation and on the ghazals said by the new composers on the above-mentioned sites.
After the presentation, at the beginning of the lecture, Dr. Nusrat Mehdi, Director of the Academy while welcoming the experts said that "Talaash e Jauhar" program has been started by Urdu Academy once again to give platform to the new creators of the state. This time Urdu Academy has made an effort to search for creators from all the cities, towns and villages of the state, for this, coordinators have been made from every district of the state, through which the search for new creators is going on. Under this process, in the first phase, about 300 poetic compositions were received through district coordinators.
A committee was formed for the selection of creators through compositions, by which about 220 new composers were selected for the next phase. In this series, Philbadih Shayari Muqabla (immediate writing) is being organized today by calling selected composers from all the districts of Bhopal and Narmadapuram divisions. After the address of Dr. Nusrat Mehdi, senior poets of Bhopal Farooq Anjum and Nafisa Sultana Ana discussed the nuances of poetry and expressed their views based on the presentation of the participants.