An enthusiast group of students have formed a Mushaira Club within the campus to set free the artistic expressions of one’s imaginations!
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A poet and his beloved poetry know no boundaries – as the passion for the magical words sway in the air surrounding him! A similar situation prevails in School of Rural Development (Tuljapur Campus) where apart from the academic excellence; Rural Development professionals have eventually expressed their hidden love for poetry. An enthusiast group of students have thus formed a Mushaira Club within the campus to set free the artistic expressions of one’s imaginations!
As Prafulla Parasher, one of the poetry lovers says, “we are a bunch of people who are deeply imbibed in poetry and love of our MEHBOOB i.e. our lover and we say to her that colour me in your love which resides in my heart and we only know one language and that’s of love. We two are each other’s mirrors, and we have created our morning together, this morning of love, let love be luminescent with love, colour me in the colour of love, oh colourful one! We are drenched by the colour of love. Let your love not be like the bird when the water dries up it flies, instead love like a fish when the water dries up it dies.”
Apart from Parasher, Asim Khan and Vivek Rai (pursuing Masters in Rural Development) too dream of taking their poetic mania to a new height. Their massage for the new batch of social work lies in the line of Allama Iqbal- Nahin Tera Nasheman Qasr-e-Sultani Ke Gunbad Par, Tu Shaheen Hai, Basera Kar Paharon Ki Chatanon Mein (Thy abode is not on the dome of a royal palace; You are an eagle and should live on the rocks of mountains).
The concept of poetry telling through dance comes from the fact that although ecstasy and story is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily.
“We are going to conduct the contest of poetry known as “Mushaira” in its traditional languages Urdu and Hindi like last year which was a grand success. Traditionally, Mushaira used to provide a platform to bring poetic expression from different regional and cultural settings. Keeping that tradition alive and to make it more inclusive, this Mushaira contest will made open to all languages”, informs one of the students.
He adds that the free self expression should not stop due to any linguistic barrier, so Urdu, Hindi and all Indian languages will be welcomed.
Free self expression could be poetry of resistance, social change, love, separation, political thought, state, nationalism or anything which can be in synchrony and lyrical in nature. A Mushaira has been part and parcel of the culture of South Asia, and is greatly admired by participants as a forum for free self-expression. The form of Urdu poetry i.e. Shayari, as well as story telling through dance, rendition of Indian classical Ragas has been the achievements of Mushaira 2013.
The participants took the audience through Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s journey to Allama Iqbal telling the poetry in a style that has long been forgotten. They made the poets come alive through modulation in voice, facial expression and comic timing.
