Calligraphy not limited to Chinese, Arabic language anymore : Syed Beary
Three-day International multilingual calligraphy exhibition, seminar by IIIAC inaugurated
The inaugural ceremony of seminar of the first International multilingual calligraphy exhibition and seminar was held on Friday afternoon at the Falcon's Den at Prestige Falcon Towers here in the city.
Syed Beary, Chairman of Bearys Group and Institute of Indo Islamic Art & Culture ( IIIAC) welcomed the guests and audience at the event and presided over the event.
Syed Beary spoke about how Calligraphy had moved on from being only based in Arabic language and how artists today in most of regional languages of India were practicing calligraphy.
Syed Beary further added that the artists can use calligraphy as a tool to thrive towards building a hate-free society.
"We should spread awareness of calligraphy and its significance among the general public in a bid to revive this historical art. It is with this motive, we had established IIIAC and Miraj 2023 is also a part of that vision.
Mufti Sageer Ahmed, Ameer-e-Shariyat, Karnataka, Principal & Shaikul Hadees, Darul Uloom Sabeelur Rashad, made supplications for the success of the event.
Ziaulla Sheriff, Chairman, India Builders Corporation, Bangalore, Shabeena Sultana, Consul of the Republic of Tunisia, Bangalore and Pusphamala N, Artist, Sculptor, Writer and Curator, Chiranjeevi Singh, IAS, Former Ambassador of India to UNESCO, Paris., Prof. K.C. Janardhan Artist, Sculptor, Calligraphy Maestro, Professor of Management & Penmanship, were guests of honor during the inaugural event.
Ziaulla Sheriff unveiled profiles of Calligraphy artists who have taken part in the exhibition.
Chiranjeevi Singh released brocher of IIIAC. In his address, Chiranjeevi Singh shared his knowledge on the history, and traditional and cultural significance of calligraphy.
Prof. KC Janardan also spoke about how modern technology has taken away little joys of the classical arts and how the newer generations are drifting away from original calligraphy and art of writing.
He also lauded Syed Beary, Bearys Group and Muqtar Ahmed, Principal and Chief calligrapher of IIIAC for their efforts in establishing the IIIAC and promoting calligraphy.
Shabeena Sultana called on people and artists for coming together and uniting through the art and bringing back the lost glory of diversity of the country in testing times of hate and communalism.
Pushpamala shed lights on the history of scripts of various languages of the world.
Muqtar Ahmed presented the vote of thanks.
The event began with the recitation of verses from Holy Quran by Syed Usman while Shaheena and team from Bearys Seaside School Kodi Kundapur voiced prayers.
Mohammed Faisal compered the event which concluded with national anthem.
Several talks, discussions and seminars will also be held as a part of three-day program.
Experts and artists from more than 10 countries including Turkey, Japan, Sudan, and Middle-East will take part in the event. Calligraphy experts in Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and other regional languages will also be a part of the event. The three-day program will continue till March 12 with free entry to arts enthusiasts.
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PM waived off loans worth Rs 16 lakh crore of his billionaire friends: Rahul
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of waiving off loans worth Rs 16 lakh crore of his billionaire friends, and said the country will never forgive him for this "crime".
In a post in Hindi on X, he said this money could have been used to cure the pain of Indians but was spent on creating hype for the ilk of those like 'Adanis'.
"Narendra Modi has waived off the loans of his billionaire friends amounting to Rs 1,60,00,00,00,00,000 i.e. 16 lakh crore rupees. With this much money: 16 crore youth could have got jobs of Rs 1 lakh per year, by giving Rs 1 lakh per year to 16 crore women, the lives of their families could have been changed. Countless suicides could have been prevented by waiving off the loans of 10 crore farmer families," he said.
"The entire country could have been provided gas cylinders for just Rs 400 for 20 years. The entire expenses of the Indian Army could have been borne for 3 years. Education up to graduation could have been made free for every youth from Dalit, tribal and backward society," the former Congress chief said in his post.
Charging that the "money which could have been used to cure the pain of 'Indians' was spent on creating hype for those like the 'Adanis'," he said the country will never forgive Narendra Modi for this crime.
"Now the situation will change - Congress will run the government for the progress of every Indian," Gandhi said.
