Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 5: Hindi Sahitya Mandal (HSM) here today organized a Hindi Poetry Recitation programme at SPMR Commerce College.
Senior Kashmiri Writer, Ratan Lal Shant was chief guest on this occasion whereas Dr. Adarsh, a senior Writer presided over the function.
Dr. Chanchal Dogra, HSM-J president shared the dais and the programme was attended by a number of intellectuals, literary personalities, well known poets of different languages and lovers of art and culture.
The programme started with welcome address by Dr. Chanchal Dogra who emphasized on the need of associating the new generation with literary practices.
Poets including Kalpana Khajuria, Dimple Verma, Sofia Jindral, Sunil Kumar, Saurabh Srivastava, Purshotam Kumar, Girija Sharma, Mohan Vaid, Manjeet Singh Kaamra, Jang S. Verman, Gopal, Monto Dutta Sharma, Shamendra Kumar, M.K Santoshi, Sanjiv Bhasin, Shyam Judeja, Dr. Baljeet Singh Raina, Dr. Nirmal Vinod, Subhash Sharma, Uma Sharma, Dr. Chanchal Dogra, Ratan Lal Shant and Dr. Adarsh presented their poems in different genres of poetry, depicting various themes of contemporary social, religious and political issues.
In his presidential address, Dr. Adarsh said that new writers should try to learn techniques of poetry by reading the creations of senior poets.
Sanjiv Bhasin, vice president HSM-J coordinated the programme, proceedings of which were conducted by Rakesh Abrol, general secretary and Uma Sharma, literary secretary.
Jang S. Verman, press secretary, HSM-J extended vote of thanks.
Follow our WhatsApp channel
