‘Inculcate love, passion for Urdu among children’

Juvenile literature has immense importance and if we teach it to our generation, it will produce good writers, poets

ISLAMABAD:

Speakers underlined the need for inculcating the love and passion for Urdu literature among the children who can find the existing content as a treasure trove for improving the intellectual milieu.

They were speaking at a one-day national conference titled "Seventy Five Years of Urdu Children's Literature" held on Thursday to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Urdu literature for children.

"The juvenile literature has immense importance and if we teach it to our generation, it will produce good poets, writers and intellectuals for the country in the future," said National Language Promotion Department DG Dr Rauf Parekh.

Dr Rauf said the NLPD would provide opportunities to children which would help them hone their writing skills and also gave them chance to publish their writings at national fora. Eminent writer of children's literature Dr Iftikhar Khokhar said the history of Urdu literature could be traced back to the development of Urdu language in the subcontinent where many renowned poets wrote prose and poems for pupils.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 29^th, 2022.