Will a denunciation die?: ‘Pakistani families abroad don’t learn Urdu to their children’
KARACHI: Stressing how it is a ‘job of a mother’ to learn Urdu to her kids, Urdu producer formed in a United States (US), Ishrat Afreen, lamented how Pakistani families formed abroad are not training Urdu to their children.
She was addressing a session, patrician ‘Urdu ki Nai Bastia, Naya Adbi Manzarnama’, on a third day of a ninth Aalmi Urdu Conference during a Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, on Saturday. According to her, no hospital or propagandize in a US can learn a new era Urdu. “It is pursuit of a mother,” she said. “Our children contingency be taught Urdu.”
In US, she said, mushairas [poetic symposiums] are some-more a partial of enlightenment and reduction related to literature. “In a elegant conference we arrange in US, around 500 to 600 people uncover up,” she said.
According to her, foreigners are training Urdu though Pakistani children are not. Every child in a US has to learn during slightest dual languages though they can't select Urdu as it is also their mom tongue, she said.
“Our children doubt because they should learn Urdu and what advantage it will yield to them,” she said, adding that children listen to Urdu during homes though they have 0 outlay as they don’t pronounce a language.
United Kingdom (UK)-based Urdu author Najma Usman talked about a change in novella essay of unfamiliar Urdu writers. Earlier, writers used to simulate a streets of Karachi or Lahore instead of a conditions of Pakistanis there in their papers as they used to skip their homeland. However, she said, with a thoroughfare of time, they realised that a nation they are indeed vital in is not theirs. “This evoked a disposition in them,” she said, adding that writers started essay things about Pakistanis formed in UK. One such instance is a recently published book of Mohsina Jeelani, patrician Han Mein Dehshadgard Hun.
According to her, a issues of a third era that is rearing in a West need to be addressed by writings.
Another academician and producer formed in Germany, Arif Naqvi, forked out that if we need to generate Urdu, a new era should be focused. Whatsapp and internet, according to him, are many common mediums that a new era uses and these are a mediums in that they write Urdu incorrectly.
Panellist Saeed Naqvi was of a perspective that a new era innate in a West is not that informed with Urdu. No large producer is among those who have innate in a West, he said.
Yashab Tamna from UK pronounced that a new era reads, writes and speaks English.
Ghazal Ansari from a US disagreed with this and pronounced that a conditions in a West in now changing as people are spending income to learn their children Urdu.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 5th, 2016.
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