Urdu in Mauritus
It's great to see young people taking control in making Urdu's condition better everywhere. This news is from Mauritus.
Ending the shortage of Urdu books
The USU chairman, Shehzad Abdullah Ahmed, wants to give a boost to reading.
The world will soon be celebrating reading and books. The Urdu-Speaking Union (USU) is seizing the opportunity to launch its first book fair in Mauritius. This sale-exhibition has already started and it will be held this week in Port-Louis. All books remaining from the fair will go to Caudan for the World Book Day.
“We have realised that there is a shortage in Urdu books so we have taken the initiative to try and satisfy the demand and give a boost to reading,” explains the chairman of the USU, Shehzad Abdullah Ahmed. The whole idea came from this question: if there is a lack of books in Urdu on the market, what is in a better position than the organisation aimed at promoting the language?
For this first edition, the organisers have chosen the educational side because this is where the need is the most important. Most of the books have been supplied by the Educational Publishing House in Delhi; about 1,000 come from the National Language Authority from Pakistan. There will be books for primary, secondary and tertiary levels as well as children’s books, dictionaries, general books and religious books.
After the opening at Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture (IGCIC) in Phoenix last Friday, the exhibition has moved to Port-Louis at the ‘Parcours Culturel’ in Vieux-Conseil Street. It will be open every day from 10am to 7.30pm until Friday. As from Monday, the USU has reached an agreement with the national library so that its books will form part of the exhibition for World Book Day held at Caudan Waterfront. If this first edition of the book fair proves successful and as its mission is to promote Urdu language, the USU doesn’t intend to stop there. Forthcoming activities are part of a global strategy started in December 2002 when the union was established. The creation of an Urdu website and a 15-minute programme in Urdu on MBC-radio are in the pipeline…
We earlier reported about the World Urdu Conference in Mauritus :
http://www.urdustan.com/manzar/2003/urduconf.html
Ending the shortage of Urdu books
The USU chairman, Shehzad Abdullah Ahmed, wants to give a boost to reading.
The world will soon be celebrating reading and books. The Urdu-Speaking Union (USU) is seizing the opportunity to launch its first book fair in Mauritius. This sale-exhibition has already started and it will be held this week in Port-Louis. All books remaining from the fair will go to Caudan for the World Book Day.
“We have realised that there is a shortage in Urdu books so we have taken the initiative to try and satisfy the demand and give a boost to reading,” explains the chairman of the USU, Shehzad Abdullah Ahmed. The whole idea came from this question: if there is a lack of books in Urdu on the market, what is in a better position than the organisation aimed at promoting the language?
For this first edition, the organisers have chosen the educational side because this is where the need is the most important. Most of the books have been supplied by the Educational Publishing House in Delhi; about 1,000 come from the National Language Authority from Pakistan. There will be books for primary, secondary and tertiary levels as well as children’s books, dictionaries, general books and religious books.
After the opening at Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture (IGCIC) in Phoenix last Friday, the exhibition has moved to Port-Louis at the ‘Parcours Culturel’ in Vieux-Conseil Street. It will be open every day from 10am to 7.30pm until Friday. As from Monday, the USU has reached an agreement with the national library so that its books will form part of the exhibition for World Book Day held at Caudan Waterfront. If this first edition of the book fair proves successful and as its mission is to promote Urdu language, the USU doesn’t intend to stop there. Forthcoming activities are part of a global strategy started in December 2002 when the union was established. The creation of an Urdu website and a 15-minute programme in Urdu on MBC-radio are in the pipeline…
We earlier reported about the World Urdu Conference in Mauritus :
http://www.urdustan.com/manzar/2003/urduconf.html
1 Comments:
I work with an English speaking , Anglican congregation. There is a sizable Urdu speaking community who worship with us, and we have recently hired an Urdu speaking pastor to provide pastoral care and worship opporuntities in Urdu. We're trying to find worship resources for this community, written in both Urdu and Hindi (and ideally with parrell English for the English speakers) Do you have ideas on where I can find such resources on-line?
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