Poonch, Feb 08 (KNS): J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Monday organized a one-day mini literary festival in Pahari and Gojri languages in the border district of Poonch. Hosted at Poonch Dak Bungalow, the day-long event saw students, litterateurs and general public interacting with eminent persons from the field of literature connected with Pahari and Gojri languages.
Commenting on the event, Secretary Academy, Dr. Aziz Hajini said that the aim of the event was to afford opportunities to the scholars and writers of these regional languages to present their creative work before the public.
“We intend to promote writings in regional languages on a larger scale so that these languages get proper space and do not lag behind,” he said, adding, today’s event was part of such initiatives launched by the Academy last year.
Announcing holding of state level writer’s camp at Poonch, Dr. Hajini said several such initiatives were in the pipeline.
“To begin with we intend to hold state writers camp in Poonch in May-June this year, which will be followed by a mega Urdu mushaira,” he said.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Referring to the scheduled multi-lingual conference being held at Jammu on 21st February, the Secretary Academy said that it was for the first time that such an event was being held.
“We decided to hold such an event so as to afford opportunities of broader interaction to writers and intellectuals connected with various state based languages,” Dr Hajini said.
As part of today’s event Khadam Amin Qamar read a short story in Gojri language under the title ‘Aato Ko Paa’ which was commented upon by Jehangir Asgar in his paper read after narration of this tale.
Coinciding with this Khurshid Kirmani read his latest Pahari poetry which was followed by a paper by Anwar Khan Anwar in which various aspects of Kirmani’s Pahari poetry were discussed.
The session held in Pahari and Gojri languages was presided over by Khadam Hussain Qamar. Before culmination of today’s event Mohtishim Ahtesham, Sajad Punchi, Khurshid Kirmani and Alamdar Adam recited their poetry in Urdu. (KNS)