‘Woh apne kamre me jaakar udaas baitha hai, abhi abhi jo gaya bahot hasa ke mujhe’ recited Naaz Pratapagdi marking a calm and composed evening filled with Sifuyana nazms.
Remembering the ace poet Allama Iqbal on his 140th birth anniversary, the cultural department of Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy organised a Sufi seminar and a Mushaira at State Museum here on Thursday.
The event ‘Rang-e-Sufiyana’ witnessed a huge crowd of Udru poetry lovers at the venue. It is to be noted that the event was organised under ‘Iqbal Festival’.
To begin with the event, Nusrat Mehdi, Secretary, Madhya Prasad Urdu Academy, highlighted about the programme said that Allama Iqbal Festival is organized in various cities of Madhya Pradesh in which various aspects of Iqbal's personality and personality are discussed.
In addition to this, Urdu Week is organized in schools and colleges to familiarize the students with Allama Iqbal and to create an interest in Urdu literature. Various competitions are also a part of Iqbal Fest in which the students participate with a lot of enthusiasm.
later, a seminar was held on the personality of Allama Iqbal and his writings. Experts including Naresh from Chandigarh, Nauman Khan from Bhopal and Zia Alvi from addressed the seminar.
This was followed by a mushaira wherein poets Akhtar from Gwalior, Haq Kanpuri from Kanpur, Naaz Pratapgarhi, from Bareli, Afzal Mangalori, Khursheed Haider from Muzaffarnagar, Alok Shrivastava from New Delhi, Asarar Chandarvi from Chanderi, Masood Bhopali from Bhopal recited their qalams before the Bhopalites.