Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 17: Aimed at engaging scholars from different traditions and persuasions to explore various dimensions of the issue ‘Literature and the Sacred Legacies, Issues and the Path Ahead’ a three-day National Seminar organized by Department of English and dedicated to Late Aga Shahid Ali started here at KU today.
While inaugurating the seminar, Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir, Prof Talat Ahmad said in his presidential address that even for discussing some aspect of English literature it is very important for a student or participant to have some information of other literatures as well so as to understand a subject of such multiple dimensions in its entirety.
Prof Talat said “a theme of such nature demands holistic understanding of various aspects and facets and then only there would be an amalgamation of different ideas, thoughts and beliefs which would help us in reaching to a consensus on various literary and sacred legacies.”
Delivering his keynote address former Head Department of English, KU Prof GR Malik while presenting three epigraphs from various scholars on the subject said that the point of view on ‘literature and the sacred legacies’ suffered a lot during the renaissance period but later onwards this tradition is experiencing a revival due to the efforts of some great thinkers and scholars all over the world.
Earlier Head Department of English and Seminar Director Prof Hameeda Banoo while dedicating the seminar to the memory of Late Aga Shahid Ali said that in this context of ‘Literature and Sacred Legacies’ Late Aga Shahid Ali though his poems dramatized multicultural consciousness and created a unique idiom wherein he successfully was able to control and integrate both the Eastern and Western influences in his works without making one subservient to another.
Prof ML Raina who was guest of honour on the occasion also presented his views on the theme of the seminar while as Prof Rehmaan Rahi and Zareef Ahmad Zareef recited their poems.
Dr Mufti Mubashir from Deptt of English conducted the proceedings of the inaugural session of the seminar.
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