Jammu, December 24
centenary seminar on noted poet and scholar Fazil Kashmiri concluded at the KL Saigal Hall here on Monday.
The seminar organised by the National Akademi of Letters, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, was attended by a galaxy of scholars representing various parts of the country.
Inaugurating the seminar, convener of the Kashmiri Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, Aziz Hajni said the best way of paying tributes to our legendary poets and scholars was to ensure the preservation and promotion of our mother tongue Kashmiri.
The inaugural session was presided over by famous poet and writer Bashir Bhadrawahi. The keynote address of the seminar was presented by Farooq Fayaz.
In the session was presided over by PN Trisal, three papers were presented by Nabi Atish, BN Betab and Syed Iftikhar. In the post-lunch session, papers written by Prof Taskeena Fazil, Prof Ab Jabar and Wali Muhammad Aseer were presented. The session was presided over by Farooq Nazki.
After the each session, there was a thought-provoking discussion about the content and approach of the papers presented by the scholars.
"Jenab Fazil Kashmiri is a distinguished stalwart of the contemporary cultural millieu in Kashmiri. He has written some of the most sweetest and beautiful songs which are sung in every nook and corner of Kashmir Valley. He represnets the wholesome ethos of Kashmir's secular culture."
Dr. Farooq Abdullah
He is is indeed a remarkable human being and is in tradition Lal Ded and Nund Reshi who sang songs of love afor God and between human beings regardless of their religious persuasions
Dr. Karan Singh
I have felt essence of true human being in Fazil's poetry. I am his fan since college days since he started the Kashmiri section of Pratap magazine in 1936
Dina Nath Nadim
"All the lovely poems of Fazil Kashmiri breathe patriotic sentiment, reverence of our great religious leaders, Whatever community they belong, for they truly belong to whole world to all of us"
Prof. J. L. Koul
"Fazil's appeal is primarily to those very simple folks, who require to be re-enforced in their traditional values of religious tolereance, social harmony and human reverence"
Prof. P. N. Pushp
"Fazil Kashmiri's forte is memorial simplicity of his poetry. His preoccupation being the idea of brotherhood of man. His poems sing admirely well reminding of what PATER said about all art tending to music."
Dr. M. S. Want