Hamari Urdu Mohabbat (HUM) presents a musical narrative on the lifetime of Gandhi

Members of Hamari Urdu Mohabbat throughout a efficiency
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Tributes to Mahatma Gandhi are available in numerous varieties, typically involving the bhajans he loved and the rules he stood for. Gandhi Jayanti will likely be celebrated this yr by Hamari Urdu Mohabbat (HUM) with an hour-long program Peer Parayi Jaane Re, which mixes poetry, music (sufi songs and ghazals), and commentary honouring Gandhi, his work, and Urdu, a language that was expensive to him.

Lokesh Jain, Syeda Hameed and Rene Singh
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The present is organised by the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh chapters of the Sarvodaya Worldwide Belief. Aruna Bahuguna — secretary of the Belief and former IPS officer—says, “Sarvodaya Belief, an All-India organisation, was fashioned to unfold the beliefs and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. We attempt to attain out to college students and youth all yr lengthy by means of completely different programmes. Each Gandhi Jayanti, we commemorate Gandhi’s life indirectly. This yr, we’ve got the Hamari Urdu Mohabbat group presenting a narrative utilizing poetry, music, and commentary.”

Journey to the fore

Syeda Hameed
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Hamari Urdu Mohabbat is a Delhi-based group conceived by Begum Zakia Zaheer to convey collectively Urdu lovers on a literary discussion board. Peer Parayi Jaane Re options three performers – Syeda Hameed, sufi singer Rene Singh, and theatre artist Lokesh Jain. “The narrative brings Gandhi’s journey to the fore by means of poetry, passages of prose, little excerpts of his speeches, by means of songs and recitation,” says Syeda Hameed.

Breaking language barrier

Rene Singh
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Moreover that includes poetry by well-known poets equivalent to Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a major a part of the present options traditional poems by poets who wrote in Urdu and weren’t Muslims. One such poet is Tilok Chand Mehroom. “Tilok Chand’s poetic identify ‘mehroom’ means ‘one who’s humble’ and he wrote essentially the most lovely Urdu poetry about Gandhi. This utterly negates the language barrier created between Urdu and Hindi. And Gandhi needed it that method,” says Syeda and provides, “We’re sort of blurring these boundaries”

She remembers that Mahatma Gandhi had requested Maulvi Abdul Haq the place he might be taught Urdu and was suggested to learn Hali’s (Altaf Hussain Hali) poetry. “Hali wrote in 1874 in regards to the empowerment of girls, how ladies are by no means given the standing and the rights in any faith, together with Islam. Talking of Hindu-Muslim unity, Hali had mentioned, “For the welfare of your nation, you need to regard your self first as a human household.”

The programme begins with ‘Purab se surya jag taara’, a musical rendering adopted by snippets on Gandhi. The group additionally presents bhajan ‘Vaishnav Jan To’, ‘Awwal Allah Noor Upaaya’, a shabad gurbani and the poem ‘Jagao na Bapu ko neend aa gayi’ by Shameen Karhani. “This distinctive expertise is a tribute to Gandhi by means of music and verse.”

Peer Parayi Jaane Re, a musical narrative on the lifetime of Gandhi, will likely be held at Ashaina Convention and Banquet Centre in Banjara Hills on October 1, 5pm onwards.