HAYWARD, CA: On Saturday June 16, Dr. Ibne Kanwal, who teaches Urdu at Delhi University and is a leading Urdu fiction writer, visited the Bay Area. The Urdu Institute of California arranged the program at the California State University, Hayward. He read his short stories to a mesmerized audience and set their imagination to work with the exquisite plots of the narrated tales. . Dr. Ibne Kanwal also spoke about the future of Urdu in India, Pakistan, and other countries. He said, the future of Urdu is very bright because it remains the most popular language of the world. The popularity of Urdu is no longer restricted to India and Pakistan, but has in fact become a world language. He was of the view that the film and television industry of India had played an important role in the ongoing development of the Urdu language. This year, a new Urdu channel has been introduced in India, and will be followed by several more in the coming months. Every year hundreds of new students from around the world are enrolling in Urdu courses at Delhi University and the Delhi Urdu Academy. In the coming decades, the popularity of Urdu throughout the US will no doubt also grow to even greater heights, Dr. Ibne Kanwal concluded. . Dr. Ibne Kanwal, has published more than forty short stories during the last 25 years. Many stories have been translated into Russian language and published in Moscow. His two collections of short stories are Teesri Duniya Ke Log and Band Rastey. To learn more about Dr. Ibn-e-Kanwal's work visit http://ibnekanwal.homestead.com. . In his writings, Dr. Ibn-e-Kanwal seems influenced by a number of storytelling styles in Urdu such as those adopted in Tilsim Hoshruba. When reading Dr. Ibn-e-Kanwal's Hamara Tumhara Khuda Badshah or Teesree Dunya Ke Log; you are convinced that the art of placing contemporary issues in a magical atmosphere of a bygone era cannot get any better. Added to that, the eloquence with which Dr. Ibn-e-Kanwal tells the story and the atmosphere developed by the story give the illusion of being in a Mughal court and listening to the best Qissa-Khwan alive in the world. . [Courtesy, Pakistan Link] |
