Urdu Hindi Pluralism poetry session on June 29, 2013 – Summary Report
URL – http://nabsites.net/demo/urdu-hindi-pluralism-poetry-session-on/
Urdu-Hindi Musha’era is a purposeful event to build cohesive societies. Indeed, it is our individual and collective responsibility to create societies where no one has to live in apprehension, discomfort or fear of the other.
We appreciate you, the donors, individuals, volunteers and poets for your support in seeding the idea of pluralism in Urdu/Hindi languages at this time . This is one small step in our approach to life through the medium of poetry, and hopefully it will be a giant leap for the Urdu/Hindi speaking mankind in bringing about a positive change.
Poetry is a major part of Urdu/Hindi speaking population in India and Pakistan and touches every one through songs, Mushaeras and Kavi Sammelans. We can become propellers of the change and plant the seeds that will become trees and bear fruit and shade in a generation or two.
Urdu-Hindi is the most commonly understood language among the Desis in the world, who form nearly 5th of the world population, and as individuals, many of us feel a sense of duty to serve our people, hence this program.
A total of 25 items will be presented in the session, and the overlap of poetry on the themes is natural, as it is the first time such a focus is given, but it will be spiced up with powerful anecdotes to make the whole program purposeful and meaningful.
Event sequence and a few pictures:
When: Saturday, June 29
Time: 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Theme: Pluralism
Where: Richardson Civic Center
Address: 411 W. Arapaho Road,
City: Richardson, TX 75080
Panel introduction
Dr. Qaiser Abbas -Chair
Dr. Raghunath Singh
Ms. Shabnam Modgil
Organizer – MC
Mike Ghouse
Management team (Desi Alphabetical Sequence)
A G Chini,
Amin Tirmizi,
Anand Punjabi,
Dr. Harbans Lal,
Irfan Ali,
Javed Gill,
Noor Amrohvi
Donors
Dr. Basheer Ahmed
Shri DD Maini
Anand Punjabi
Farooq Wazir Ali
Irfan Ali
Javed Rashid
Javed Samuell Gill
Mani Rahman
Mike Ghouse
Dr. Qaiser Abbas
Dr. Shamsa Qureshi
Budget
$2,500.00 Planned
$1,900.00 Collected
$0,600.00 Not collected
$1,600.00 Spent
$0,300.00 Surplus for Next Mushaera
* Book was not published
Volunteers
Live broadcaster: FunAsia
Photographer: Zia Khan
Filmmaker: Vijay Gurow
Registration – Dr. Kundawala
Tea/Snacks – Anand Punjabi and friends
Snacks – Fun Asia
FIRST SEGMENT OF THE POETRY
Our friends will share about Pluralism and recite the poetry written by famous poets around the world on Pluralism
Dr. Amer Suleman – Defining Pluralism in Urdu
Anand Punjabi – Defining Pluralism in Hindi
AG Chini – Bollywood Pluralism
Shri D. D. Maini – Opening with Nazir Akbar Abadi’s couplets
Dr. Harbans Lal – Poem by Dr. Teja Singh
Fateh Ali Chetur – Poem by Ashok Chakradhar
Dr. Raj Kumar – Poetry by Dr. B. D. Kalia Humdum
Kundan Sharma – Dilip Kumar- Raj Sharma story
Reciting their own poetry:
Anad Punjabi
Ahmed Rahi
Dr. Harbans Lal
Javed Rashid
Javed Samuell Gill
Dr. Shamsa Qureshi
Rehmat Raza
Shah Alam Siddiqi
Zohra Chisti
Mike Ghouse
SECOND SEGMENT OF THE POETRY
D. D. Maini
Dr. Basheer Ahmed
Dr. Raghunath Singh
Acknowledged their poetry
Dr. Ravi Kumar Rosho – India
Dr. Taj Hashmi – Tennessee
Hillol Ray
Senior Poets (not in age, but in poetry)
Naheed Shad
Noor Amrohvi
Saeed Qureshi
Tariq Hashemi
Younus Ijaz
Panelist Remarks
Shabnam Modgil
Dr. Qaiser Abbas – Sadr-e-Mehfil
Mike Ghouse – take home message
Conflict mitigation
Gift of Language v horns and fangs
Foundation for Pluralism
————PHOTOGRAPHS ARE RANDOMLY PLACED
AND NOT IN ANY SEQUENCE
UrduPoet – Rahmat Reza
Hindi/Urdu Radio Broadcaster Shabnam Modgil
Acknowledgement of pioneers (Desi Alphabetical-Duplication in category removed)
Amina Ismail, Arvind Singh, Baba Fazlur Rahman, Irfan Ali,
Jasbeer Kaur, Jyothi Mallick, Manju Bansal, Majeed Jaami, Najma Ghouse,
Nandlal Singh, Nishi Bhatia, Qamar Naqvi, Sarwar Alam Raz, Shoket
Qadri, Syed Ilyas and …
Urdu Hindi Poets of Dallas (Desi Alphabetical)
Dr.
Amanullah Khan, Amer Suleman, Amin Tirmazi, Anand Punjabi, Ahmed Rahi,
Dr. Harbans Lal, Iqbal Hyder, Javed Rasheed, Karamat Gardezi, Masooq
Qazi, Nadir Durrani, Naheed Shad, Noor Amrohvi, Owais
Nasir, Qaisar Abbas, Qutub Ali, Rajiv Chakarvarthi, Rehmat Raza, Saeed
Qureshi, Shah Alam Siddiqi, Tariq Hashmi, Yunus Ejaz, Zohra Chisti,
Urdu Hindi Radio Personalities (Desi Alphabetical)
Aamir
Askari, Aditiya Singh, Ambreen Hasnat, AG Chini, Asha Ram, Anjum
Anwar, Azad, Farrukh Hamid, John Hammond, Kundan
Sharma, Mike Ghouse, Monicca Kolluri, Pervaz Malik, Rehan Siddiqi,
Rekha Gajaria, Samson Masih, Sandhya Sarma, Seema Malik, Shabnam
Modgil, Sharriq Hamid, Shazia Khan, Syed Talib, Tamim Shipchandler
An effort was made to make the list comprehensive and complete, we placed the names we knew and recommended.
Some day, we will publish the poetry of all the poets…. time and funds permitting.
NEXT MUSHAERA/SAMMELAN
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Managed by: Saeed Qureshi Saheb and Younus Ijaz Saheb
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Mike Ghouse,
President
Foundation for Pluralism
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