Soz for postal stamps on Mahjoor

Srinagar: Member Parliament President JKPCC, Prof Saifuddin Soz Friday urged Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology, Government of India, to release postal stamp in the name of famous poet of Jammu and Kashmir Ghilam Ahmad Mahjoor.In a statement, a spokesman here said that the Dy. Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, K. Rehman Khan, allowed Prof. Saifuddin Soz to lay on the table of the House statement regarding the famous poet. “Shair-e-Kashmir, Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor (11 August 1887 – 9 April 1952), stands out as a poet par excellence, for his immense contribution, in being the harbinger of modernism in Kashmiri poetry, widening and diversifying its parameters.  Mahjoor, the National Poet of Kashmir, enriched Kashmiri language and refreshed its idiom, making it vibrant and wholesome. Having the universal dimensions, associated with essentials of human life, Mahjoor could also perceive and express the romance of existence in the daily activities of his people and the land they inhabited,” Soz said.Mehjoor, he said revolutionalised the sensibility and evoked in people that nationalistic sentiment, besides being a propounder of communal harmony and brotherhood.“The person and the poet, Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor, created a long lasting impact on the literary, social and political scene of Kashmir.”The body of the poet, Soz said, was laid to eternal rest at Athwajan Srinagar with a grand state funeral and a mausoleum was built there. “It needs to be mentioned that the poet Mahjoor is the only legendary personality of Kashmir whose most popular verses became the voice of every Kashmiri since the beginning of 20th Century. There are a number of schools, housing colonies and bridges named after Mahjoor.”He said that there were a good number of books written and published on the poet’s life and works. Obviously, in view of Mahjoor’s towering personality and his contribution, it has been a keen desire of Kashmir civil society to have a postal stamp released by Postal Department of India in his name, Soz said.“I would urge the Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology to issue a postal stamp commemorating Mahjoor, Shair-e-Kashmir, as early as possible.”