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A Poetic start of the year

Club Literati organised”Bazm e Sukhan” on 7/01/2023 at Arera Club to celebrate the new year. The evening was lit up with urdu and hindi poetry with a number of well known poets showcasing their poetry to the audience.

Founder of Club Literati, Dr. Seema Raizada started the event by saying, “We are starting the year in a poetic way so that we are filled with a positive energy all through the year.” Asma Rizwan, a member of the club, introduced the poets to the audience and handed the stage to the poets.
The event was full of verses and beautiful lines and here are few for the readers.

(Please put the shayari in devnagri script, not in english)
Main kahan apni kisi soch k iz-har me thi
Main to har dour me sonpe hue kirdar me thi
Log samjhe hi nahi mere hunar ko, warna
Mujh me fankaar tha poshida, me fankaar me thi
Dr. Nusrat Mehdi

Mushkilo se hume jujhna aa gaya
Harte harte, jeetna aa gaya
Andhiyo se lade to hua yeh asar
Hume tufan ka rukh modna aa gaya
Dr. Anu Sapn

Mujhe yeh yaad rakhna tha ta’alluq khatam h sare
Tumhe kyu bhul jane me zamane lag gaye phir bhi
Mujhe kehna tha tumse, tum nahi phir bhi to baqi hu
Mujhe tumko batane me zamane lag gaye phir bhi
Shifali Pandey

Jab harart nahi h, rishto me
Dik ho phir ya k dilbari kuch ho
Sare mosam firaq k mosam
Ab December k janvary kuch ho
Gosiya Khan Sabeen

Aag bheetar ki deti h pani ko bhi
Aankh ka aansoo bhi dhal jata h
Abhay Shukla

Ha yeh sawal to h kyu hu me mere jesa
Magar yeh shukr bhi h aap aap jese h
Aamir Azhar

Celebrating Mr. Ajit Raizada

When I imagine a writer writing, I imagine him at dawn, most likely with a drink of choice, wondering of the words to write down. But writing is not done that easily. As Ajit Raizada himself said, “Morning thoughts made my poems” and experience, of course. For his poems are not of one sitting or of one year, they come from different time periods, from different years, from different situations and feelings. 

Finally compliling his poems, not all of them, but many, into a book. Club Literati had the honour of launching his book beautifully titled “Sooraj k Aansoo” at Arera Club on 23rd December, 2022. It was a special day not because Mr. Raizada launched this book but also because it was his father’s birthday.

The evening was a talk about the ‘sight of a poet’, understanding and appreciating the writings and much more. Mr. Raizada also shared his latest poem, written on the women in Afghanistan, which was hot from the oven, as Mrs. Neelkamal, our moderator, put it. She started the event with the introduction to the author, reciting dew of his poems and making the event run smoothly with her comments and handing the stage to out special guest one after another. 

Manoj Shrivastava, a retired IAS officer and a renowned poet was the special guest at the event. Commenting on the title of the book he said that many of Mr. Raizada’s poems are ‘heliocentric’. He also made audience think about the line where the poet confess, ‘mujhe sooraj nahi chahiye’, transaltion: ‘I don’t want sun’. He alps categorised the poems in the book as poems about sun, Mahabharata, reality, modernisation, and nature. 

A young poet and a beta reader, Nishant Upadhyay, gave a young generation insight on the poems. 

Dhruv Shukal, renowned Hindi poet said,” Kavita ho jati h, Kavi bhi uske hone k liye tayyar rahe.” He gave a very different insight into the poems.

The book was launched and the poems were celebrated and many came forth, eager to get the book and signed from the poet. It was an evening full of inspiration, confessions, love for poetry and warmth from the people for the poet himself. 

Meet the Budding Writers

3 out of every 5 readers want to write a book. But it takes more than imagination and command on words to write a book. Some write away and spend their lives editing their work, some wait for retirement to sit down and write. The Bharadwaj twins did none. They had an idea, they wrote a book, and topped it with their beautiful paintings to go for the illustrations in the books and published it. 

At Club Literati, we motivate, boast and encourage such writers and invite them for a little chit chat to inspire others. 

December 6th, 2022, at Swami Vivekanand Library, was such an evening  with Devyani and Shivaranjani Bharadwaj. Authors of two books at the age of ten, the twins are achievers and have many titles and trophies under their names. They have won top positions in the District level Spell Bee competition, certificates, trophies and cash prizes. They twins wrote and illustrated their first book, “Sun Salutations” at age of 8 which was appreciated by Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi in a letter to the twins. They are painters and have seen their paintings getting show cased at the Indore Airport. 

Our moderator for the evening was Mrs. Archana Zulfiqar, who is a passionate about theater, literature and storytelling. 

The evening started with  the  twins talking about their first book Sun Salutations. It is a book based on yoga and the illustrations done by the twins are funny and inspiring at the same time. Writing about different asana, illustrations of the cover and the interior of the book was a wonder to all the adult minds. 

Shivaranjani told the story of how their mother used to give them a picture and ask the twins to create stories from it. It soon became a habit the girls enjoyed and soon they were writing shirt stories and offering them to their friends and elders to do the reading. It started with fun and soon turned into the idea of books. 

The cover of the book is chorus of colours, bordered with sun and flowers. They also talked about their second book which talks about a 16 year old spy. 

Their mother, Mrs. Bharadwaj, shared the seat for a brief time to talk about the achievements of the twins.

At the end of the session, the twins donated their books to the library, for any reader who is interested in reading their books.