Speakers highlight need for stories for children in Urdu literature
The ninth Aalmi Urdu Conference, hold during a Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, was attended by a crowd of intellectuals, Urdu novel enthusiasts, and members of a literati who discussed a horde of issues. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: Children used to write and send us their works to be published behind in a day, reminisced Humera Athar, who headed a children’s pages in a journal for some-more than 7 years.
She was a panellist during a session, patrician ‘Urdu mein bachon ke adab ki soorat-e-haal [The state of Urdu novel for children]’, on a fourth day of a ninth Aalmi Urdu Conference during a Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, on Sunday. The event was moderated by Ali Hasan Sajid.
Talking about since Urdu novel for children has been pang lately, she translated a Chinese motto into Urdu: Jis jungle mein shair khatam ho jatay hain, vahan bandar ki badshahat ho jati hai [Monkeys turn kings of a jungle where lions go extinct].
“Children used to write and send us their works to tell in those days though currently things have altered and newspapers do not accommodate such stories and do not inspire children to write,” she said. She combined that she still is gratified when children call her and tell her that they are essay stories since she encouraged them to write for a children’s section. She talked about how, around 3 years ago, a immature child called her from Multan and told her that he, along with some of his friends, have started their possess internal children’s repository after being desirous by her.
According to Sajid, there were around 350 children magazines after 1947. However, he added, all were sealed unfortunately and we frequency have 30 magazines today, out of that usually 4 have their permanent offices while all others are only one-man armies.
“We are articulate about a necessity of writers and peculiarity of calm here though we feel there is no necessity of peculiarity books,” pronounced Dr Najeeba Arif. Instead, she talked about a miss of seductiveness on partial of a children when it came to reading.
She reminisced about how, in her childhood, her father used to tell her stories of a lakarhara [lumberjack] and other anticipation stories. “Our children do not wish to listen to stories of information and record though those that give them ethics and values,” she said, adding that a era has taken divided storytelling from a possess children. She lamented how no one reads stories to their children during bedtime nowadays.
Giving a instance of a Harry Potter series, Dr Arif pronounced that a writers should write novella like that. She combined that a children should review such stories that evangelise that no matter how tiny and diseased we are, we will win a conflict if we are true.
Another panellist, Rumana Husain, was of a perspective that a tradition of relatives going to buy books for their children other than march books has vanished. “There are no special programmes for children on TV or radio,” she added.
According to Raza Ali Abidi, ‘bachon ka adab bolta hai [children’s novel speaks]’. He combined that children will remember a stories they have listened from their mom in their childhood. He paid loyalty to Ismail Merthi and Raza Mehdi Ali as writers for children.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 5th, 2016.
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