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Tag: Javed Akhtar

IPRS Announces Addl Relief Fund to 3500 Members

(Mumbai)IPRS Announces Addl Relief Fund to 3500 Members
The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) has announced the release of an additional tranche of emergency relief fund for its members facing financial crisis during the nationwide lockdown amid coronavirus pandemic.
As per Press Release The fund will support around 3500 writers and composers in the music fraternity, across the country, whose livelihoods have been deeply impacted by COVID-19
Soon after the lockdown was announced to combat COVID-19 situation in the country on March 24, IPRS, a copyright society mandated by the government of India, as a custodian of its creator members, had declared an emergency relief package.
Javed Akhtar Tweeted “When the lock down was announced IPRS (Indian performing rights society) had funded more than 3000 members who are not in a comfortable position by putting money directly in their accounts since the lock down has continued IPRS is again funding those 30000 composers/ writers,” veteran lyricist-writer and chairman of IPRS,

Denying Islamic Culture’s Existance,J Akhtar,Termed Urdu Language Anti-Religion

[New Delhi]Denying Islamic Culture’s Existance, J Akhtar,Termed Urdu Language Anti-Religion, AntiPuritan
Noted poet lyricist Javed Akthar Said that Societies, rather than religions possess a culture, for whom the Urdu language is essentially a secular progressive dialect without being religion specific.
Akthar said at a function late last evening that Islamic culture is a misnomer. Religions don’t have a culture but societies have a culture. There is a central Asian culture+an Iranian+a Turkish culture+an Egyptian+an Indian culture… there can by synthesis of cultures like in India,
Akthar said.”Cultures come from different regions, not religions. So I believe there is nothing like an ‘Islamic Culture,’ had it been the case it then Saudi Arab would have it the most, which by the way is still looking for a culture,”
The poet-lyricist was speaking at a recital session at the India Islamic Cultural Centre here organised by HarperCollins from the book “In Other Words”, a translation of his own poetic works in English by Ali Hussain Mir.
“Urdu has no connection with any religion. I can say this with great pride that generally in literature when poems are written ? say in Sanskrit, English, Greek or Latin, it is for the deities it for the Gods and then transcends to other topics.
“Urdu is one exception in the world that from the very beginning is anti-religion. It was anti-fundamentalist and anti-puritan,” Akhtar said.
Interacting with the audience about the future of Urdu, the Sahitya Akademi winning-scholar expressed concern over the fate of other indigenous languages too, which he said, were not merely a means for communication but also carriers of culture and tradition.
“There was a time when I used to get worried thinking about the future of Urdu. But that doesn’t happen anymore.
Instead now what bothers me is the future of all Indian languages. Be it Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil or any other… their prevalence and existence is very important for us.
“Language is not a only a vehicle for communication, it carries a culture. Language carries tradition, a sense of continuity and identity. The moment you kill a language you make people rootles