Belgaum Urdu Academy will start Urdu Classes for non-Urdu speaking individuals from May 2. The programme will be held every Sunday between 10.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. at Islamia Urdu Medium High School in Camp area in the city.
Announcing this at a press meet here on Tuesday, academy Secretary Abdul Samad Khanapuri said a substantial number of non-Urdu speaking persons had expressed interest in the language. Retired Urdu teacher and calligrapher Khaleel Ahmed Soudagar has been appointed to teach the language.
Mr. Khanapuri said there could not be more secular language than Urdu which had grown into a global link language, read, written, spoken and admired by all sections of the global community.
Academy member Mohammad Gouse Maniyarsaab said the academy had proposed to start an Urdu translation centre, arrange Urdu dramas, Multi-lingual poetic meets/symposiums so as to spread the beauty and fragrance inherent in the language.
For details of classes, contact: 9845107792, 9880924402, 7411577094 or 9741848437.
Urdu and those outside the language
Urdu was formed in the wake of the social and cultural interaction between Hindus and Muslims in the sub-continent: The language takes a major form from Khari Boli (or Khadi boli) – a Prakrit language of the North India – Persian and Arabic. Among some of the greatest non-Muslim litterateurs who made significant contribution to Urdu literature were Munshi Premchand, Kishan Chandra, Bedi. Raghupati Sahay, who is known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri had won Jnanapith Award in early seventies.
