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Uttar Pradesh government nominates members to Muslim bodies

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UTTAR PRADESH :

UP Shia Central Waqf Board has received four nominations from the state government — Maulana Raza Husain, S. Hasan Qausar, Mohammad Jaryab Jamal Rizvi, and Shabahat Husain.

(Mohsin Raza Minister of State (Uttar Pradesh); Image Source: Twitter/@Mohsinrazabjpup)

The Uttar Pradesh government has announced names of committee members of five minority organisations of the states, including the UP Shia Central Waqf Board and the State Haj Committee.

The announcements come as part of the government’s nomination to these committees including those of the UP Urdu Academy, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad Memorial Committee, and the UP Board of Madrasa Education.

State Minister for Haj and Waqf, Mohsin Raza’s name features in the list of 14 members of the State Haj Committee.

Others nominated from Lucknow include Faisal Ali Khan and S. Kalbe Husain.

UP Shia Central Waqf Board has received four nominations from the state government — Maulana Raza Husain, S. Hasan Qausar, Mohammad Jaryab Jamal Rizvi, and Shabahat Husain.

The government has nominated Chaudhary Kaiful Wara of Gorakhpur as President of the UP Urdu Academy.

Last year, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had visited Wara’s shop in Gorakhpur during the CAA awareness campaign and presented him with a booklet related to it.

The Chief Minister had then appealed to people to read the reality of the Act instead of believing in rumours.

Adityanath has also nominated Mohd Iftikhar Hussain as a member of the Haj Committee.

source: http://www.thestatesman.com / The Statesman / Home> Uttar Pradesh / by IANS, Lucknow / September 10th, 2021

Compering was an art for poet Ahmad

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Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :

Lucknow:

A poet, a novelist, a teacher and a champion of stylising compering into an art, Prof Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad breathed his last in the city on Friday. The 87-year-old, a well known face in the literary settings of the city was highly eulogised for creating a uniquely independent genre of ‘nizaamat’ (compering) for the thousands of poetry events he mastered with his spontaneous wit and humour.

Buried at night in the Fatehmi graveyard in Khurram Nagar on Friday, Ahmad, born in 1929, was a native of Faizabad. He had moved to Lucknow in the early ’60s as a lecturer in Lucknow University’s (LU) Urdu department from where he retired in 1989 after 30 years of service.

“Before him, compering a mushaira was just a sub-standard job. He transformed it into an art. His literary articulation and spontaneity, his wit and the way he weaved sarcasm and humour are unmatched to this date,” shared Prof Anis Ashfaq, former head of LU’s Urdu department who was also Ahmad’s student. Ashfaq also said that he was the one and the only person who exemplified compering and with him the golden period of the new art has gone.

A man who donned many hats, Ahmad also wrote poetry and several novels, including his biography ‘Raqs-e-Sharar’ wherein his narrative too was praised of bearing a uniquely creative style. “Even though my father was a man of the English language, Urdu was his passion and mission. He was a proponent of composite culture,” said Ahmad’s son Malikzada Javed.

Ahmad had served as the chairperson of the UP Urdu Akademi and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad Urdu Memorial Committee. He also held a senior post in the All India Urdu Rabita Committee and was a receiver of the 2015 Ghalib Award for literary services to Urdu. He was condoled on his death by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav and minister Azam Khan.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India /  News Home> City> Lucknow / by Yusra Husain / TNN / April 23rd, 2016