Ms. Kamna Prasad, Founder of Jashn-e-Bahar Trust is organizing 17th annual Mushaira on 3rd April 2015 at New Delhi in which writers and poets from China, Pakistan, New York, Jiddah will participate. Mushaira will be held at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, New Delhi. Lt. General Zameeruddin Shah, Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University will be the Chief Guest. Noted Journalists, Mr. Kuldeep Nayyar will preside over the Mushaira. Mr. Munawar Rana (Kolkata), Mr. Mansoor Osmani (Muradabad) and Mr. Popular Meerathi (Meeruth) will participate in Mushaira. Mr. Amjad Islam Amjad (Lahore), Mr. Abdullah Abdullah (New York), Mr. Ashwaq Husain Zaidi (Toronto) and Omer Salim-Al-Idroos (Jiddah) will also participate. Mr. Javeed Akhtar and Mr. Waseem Bareilvi will also participate. Ms. Kishwar Naheed and Ms. Ambareen Haseeb will present feministic poetry in Urdu. The Convener of the Mushaira is Ms. Aparna S Reddy. Uru poet of China, Mr. Xang Shizon will present his poems. The interesting thing is that this program is being organized by the people whose mother tongue is not Urdu but they have chosen Urdu as the medium of expression of their thoughts. It may be noted that Urdu occupies 20th position in the best languages of the world.
–Siasat News