Urdu Ghazal Symposium concluded

By Our Correspondent , Nepalgunj, May 1: A  Urdu Ghazal Symposium was held in Nepalgunj in the participation of poets and Ghazal writers from Nepal and India.

In the symposium, prizes were distributed to the contestants who excelled in the poetry competition organised for children.

In the event organised by Bazm-e-Urdu Nepal, Ghazal writers of India, Asar Bahraichi, Rashid Rahi and more than a dozen Ghazal writers of Nepal recited their Ghazals, informed Sarwar Nepali, the president of the organisation.

Likewise, Nepal’s senior Urdu Ghazal writer Abdul Latif Shauq, former professor of Pragya Pratishthan Sanat Regmi, Dr. Zainul Aabideen, Dr. Obaidur Rahman, Mustafa Ahsan Qureshi, Syed Nepali, Abdul Hamid Siddiqui, Meraj Himalaya and Abdul Rashid Hayat recited their Ghazals.

On the same occasion, Sania Ansari, a student of Ideal Public Secondary School, who stood first in the poetry competition, won a prize of 50 US dollars.

She was awarded by India's senior Ghazal writer Asar Bahraichi and former professor of Pragya Pratishthan, Sanat Regmi.

Sarwar Nepali, president of the organisation, said that Bazm-e-Urdu Nepal has been conducting various activities for the development of Urdu literature in Nepal.