By TCN News,
New Delhi: Prof. S.M. Sajid, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia released four books published as part of Tagore Research Translation Scheme (TRTS) in the Book Release Function organized by the Department of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia on February 28, 2014.
The details of the books are as follows:
1) “Tagore Shanasi” by Shamim Tariq
2) “Gitanjali” by Rabindranath Tagore, translated into Urdu by Dr. Suhail Ahmad Farooqi
3) “Rabindranath Tagore: Shair Aur Danishwar” edited by Wahajudding Alvi and Shahzad Anjum
4) “Tagore: Fikr-o-Fun ke Hazar Rang” edited by Wahajuddin Alvi and Shahzad Anjum
On this occasion, Prof. S.M. Sajid, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia addressed the guests and audience. He said “The spirit of the team work is on the wane and it was heartening to see the triumph of team spirit that augers well for the department and the institution. He felt that these books will be fundamental to understanding Rabindranath Tagore”.
Famous journalist Syed Faisal Ali, Group Head of Rashtriya Sahara was the ‘Guest of Honour’ of the programme.
Prof. Shamim Hanfi, Chief Guest of the function, said “Tagore, Iqbal and Mahatma Gandhi were the messengers of human friendliness. Tagore was a living legend. He was a complete man of the twentieth century. The work of research and translation done in the TRTS is an outcome of the collective effort of the Department of Urdu and will go down in the annals of Department’s history”.