Single platform to refine language studies

Urdu Markaz, which organises the Bhendi Bazar Urdu Festival, and Guru Nanak College, Sion, have announced a collaboration to provide students with a forum to get community support to refine language studies and share their work. Urdu Markaz will have similar projects with other colleges.

The project, which was discussed at a meeting at the college on April 20, will be inaugurated on April 29 at Guru Nanak College Language Centre. As part of the project, the college will be part of the Urdu Markaz Aaina Poetry Circle, set up in 1999, which has been part of the Bhendi Bazar Urdu Festival.

Professor Amrin Mogor, who is the coordinator at Guru Nanak College’s Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia and Mass Communications section, said, “We are initiating a Multi-language Poetry Club. We provide certification in multiple languages, including Gurumukhi and Sanskrit. The project is being done as a part of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS) under the Ministry of Education (MoE),” said Mogor.

Mogor added that Urdu Markaz will help students develop their skills in the Urdu language by being a part of a poetry-reading club. “The idea is to get non-Urdu speakers to develop interest in the language. The project will not be limited to Urdu but other languages that are not familiar to a learner.,” said Mogor.

The project will not be limited to Urdu, but it will be available in other languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, English, and Kannada. Advocate Zubair Azmi, director of Urdu Markaz, said, “The collaboration will go to more colleges, including Rizvi. The aim is to take the project to more colleges.”