Friday, August 3, 2012

Poet Muslim Saleem and Thumbay Moideen nominated as IKFS Patrons


Kuwait : An Industrialist and Philanthropist, as well as the Founder President of Ajman based Thumbay Group, Haji Thumbay Moideen and Poet, Muslim Saleem, a world famed Urdu poet and winner of Madhya Pradesh’s  Multi-Awards in “ Majalis Moshahira” have been nominated as the Two Patrons of Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Yogesh Sharma – great person, excellent scribe

May 1, 2012
By Muslim Saleem

Bhopal, May 1, 2012

Yogesh Sharma, who died of a massive heart attack at the age of 50 years on April 30, 2012 at Bhopal and cremated on May 1, 2012, was among the rare breed of perfect human beings. He served Madhya Pradesh Government’s Directorate of Public Relations for over 30 years. My association with him had been for about 4 years. That much period of time is enough to judge a person’s demeanor. He was among the rare populace, who has single-minded pursuits, straightforward approach, candid and honest expression and impeccable character. His dedication and hard work was exemplary. He was also a great writer. He had the uncanny ability of expression. When he wrote, words, idioms and phrases served as his humble servants. Yogesh Sharma was such a juggler of words that drabbest of news items and subjects became readable and interesting when written by him.  Yogesh Sharma had evolved his own style of writing news. Headlines of his news were always in multi-decks and the news item was broken into several sections each carrying a sub-headline, reports SMS News & Features..

نذرِ شاعرِ جوانسال محبی مسلم سلیم – احمد علی برقی اعظمی

پنج مطلع غزل کے کیا کہنے

ہے جو مسلم سلیم کا شہکار

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Poetic tribute to monthly Imkan edited by Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad by Muslim Saleem


Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad, one of the great poets and writers of Urdu has been waging a relentless war against the black sheep of Urdu literature. In the March-April edition of monthly Imkan, he has written an editorial entitled “Tash-heeri Adab” in which has exposed the people who are hogging limelight through unfair means in Urdu literary world as well as mushairas. Inspired by this editorial, I (Muslim Saleem) have written a qata as ode to Monthly Imkan. Both the qata and the editorial are being posted here for the benefit of Urdu lovers. It is matter of shame that mutashairs are reciting poetry composed by others in mushairas and stealing the limelight. Similarly, some magazines are publishing special issues on insignificant people by taking money from them. The editorial gives a severe blow to these malicious tendencies. (Muslim Saleem – April 5, 2012)