Mirza Ghalib

INAUGURATION
10:00 – 11:00 2017

Lecture Room No.3, 4th Floor Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata

Opening Song:	Recitation from the Gitanjali in Persian and Bengali By Nahid Morshedlou and Ahmed Hussain Barbhuiya
Welcome Address:	Dr Satyabrata Chakrabarti General Secretary, The Asiatic Society
Inaugural Address:	Shri Sitaram Sharma Former Chairman, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata
Introducing the theme of Conference:	Dr Syed Akhtar Husain President, IIPS
Address by the Guest of Honour:	Shri Pankaj Rag IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India
Key-note Address:	Professor Ahmad Karimi Hakkak Professor of Persian Language, Literature and Culture, University of Maryland, USA
Presidential Address:	Professor Isha Mahammad President, The Asiatic Society
Vote of Thanks:	Dr. Sujit Kumar Das Treasurer, The Asiatic Society Tea- 11:00 – 11:30

Academic Sessions
11:30 – 13:00

Lecture Room No. 3. 4th Floor Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata

1st Academic Session 11:30 – 13:00
Chair : Dr S. Taqi Abedi & Dr M. Firoze

Pardis Minuchehr, George Washington University, USA
The Persian Poetics of Creation in India: Mirza Ghalib’s Irfan

Abhay Kumar Singh, MJP Rohilkhand University, India
Ghalib’s Legacy: Tufta and Farogh

Pinky Isha, Calcutta Girls’ College, India
Ghalib’s Ghazals and their inter-textuality and transformations within the Persian Poetic Tradition: An overview

Nahid Morshedlou, Ministry of Education, Iran
Mirza Ghalib and his interaction with Allama Iqbal

Arshadul Quadri, Lucknow University, India
Exploring Poetic Elements in the Persian Letters of Ghalib

Lunch- 13:00 – 14:30

2nd Academic Session
15:00 – 17:00

Chair : Prof. Ahmad Karimi Hakkak & Dr. Kingshuk Chatterjee

S. Taqi Abedi, Eminent Scholar, Canada
Ghalib: The Pioneer of Modernity in the Indo Persian Literature

Uttara Chakraborty, Presidency University, India
Ghalib in Calcutta

Mahmood Alam, English and Foreign Language University, India
Mirza Ghalib: A Poet of Intellect

Parminder S. Bhogal, Punjab University, India
Knowing Mirza Ghalib & his times through his Dastanbu

Mandana Mangali, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Defamiliarization in the Poetry of Ghalib of Delhi

Thursday 5th January 2017
10:00 – 11:00

Chair: Dr Tanvir Ahmad, Dr Matthew Miller & Dr Jahan Ara

Venue: Vidyasagar Hall The Asiatic Society 1, Park Street, Kolkata

Muzaffar Alam, English and Foreign Language University, India
Reception of Ghalib in the Contemporary Arab world

Shafaq Matloob, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Cheragh-i-Dair: A Universal Message of Ghalib

Sameeuddin, MJP Rohilkhand University, India
Impact of Hafiz on Mirza Ghalib

Priyanka Bhattacharyya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Mirza Ghalib As Represented in Indian Popular Culture

Abid Hossain, Calcutta Madrasah, India
Influence of Mirza Ghalib on Syed Raza Ali Wahshat Kalkatvi

Tea- 11:00 – 11:30

4th Academic Session
11:30 – 13:00

Chair: Prof. Khwaja Ekramuddin, Dr. GholamSarwar, Professor Isharat Ali Molla & Professor Chander Shekhar

Nadeem Akhtar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Common Elements in Ghalib and Hedayat

Golam Moinuddin, Hyderabad Central University, India
Symbiotic relation of Ghalib and Iqbal

Md Abul Kalam Sarker, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ghalib Studies in Bangladesh

Syed Md Iqbal Shah Alquadri, Maulana Azad Govt. College, India
Concept of Sufism in the poetry of Ghalib

Ahmed Hussain Barbhuiya, & Rezwanul Hoque Khan, S.S College, Hailakandi, India
Ghalib and Hazin with Reference to Sabk e Hindi

Lunch- 13:00 – 14:30

5th Academic Session
15:00 – 16:00

Chair- Dr Arshadul Quadri, Dr Mansoor Alam & Dr Pardis Minuchehr

Syed Akhtar Husain, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Writing Must Not Be Less Than Speaking – Thus Spake Ghalib

Kingshuk Chatterjee, Calcutta University, India
Aakhir Is Dard Ki Dawa Kya Hai?Mirza Ghalib and his Dilli after 1857

Md. Attaullah, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Social themes in the Persian poetry of Mirza Ghalib

Dipanwita Donde, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Muraqqa e Chugtai: An illustrated Manuscript of the Diwani e Ghalib

Swananda Pathak, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, India
Sufi motifs in the works and life of Ghalib

Asieh Zabihnia Emran, University of Pyam-e-Nur, Iran
An Analysis of the Similarity between the Baroque School and the Ghazals of Mirza Ghalib

Valedictory
16:00 – 17:00

Venue: Vidyasagar Hall The Asiatic Society 1, Park Street, Kolkata

Chief Guest : Ms. Kamna Prasad, Founder: Jashn e Bahar Trust, New Delhi

Remarks of participants: Abul Kalam Sarkar, Gholam Sarwar, Pardis Minuchehr, Pinky Isha, Ahmad Karimi Hakkak

Chair: Professor Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Vice President, The Asiatic Society

Vote of thanks: Dr Mahmood Alam, General Secretary, IIPS

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INAUGURATION 10:00 – 11:00 2017