Archive for April, 2007
Elected corporators take oath in Urdu, Punjabi
After the recent election for the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC), the newly elected corportors took oath on April 23. Many corporators chose to take oath in Urdu and Punjabi also apart from English and Hindi.
Of the 272 corporators, the figure of corporators who took oath in Urdu and Punjabi may not be big, but it [...]
Poetry on martyrs of Karbala
The mushaira ‘Shohada-e-Karbala ki yaad meN’ was organised at Amroha recently under the aegis of Bazme-e-Sajjadia.
hai pyaas baRii ki hai baRaa daryaa
ek pyaase ke hai pairoN meN paRaa daryaa
(Shafa’at Naeem)
unke lab par karbala meN Hind ka aayaa thaa naam
hinduoN ko yuuN aqiidat ho gaii Husain se
(Bhuvnesh Kumar Sharma)
Karbalaa ka vaaq’ya hai kis qadar mo’ajaz-numaa
kuchh [...]
Na’atiya Mushaira in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
The Seerat Committee of the Aligargh Muslim University recently
organised a Naatia mushaira where poets from various parts of
the country rendered ‘naat’, poetry in praise of
Prophet Muhammad.
The AMU VC Naseem Ahmad and Abul Mujahid Zahid presided
over the mushaira, which continued till 2 am. A selection of couplets
recited by poets at the Naatia mushaira are as follows: [...]
