“I just wanted to paint this verse of Ghalib on the front wall of the Persian department but I avoid confronting my fellow teachers of the Urdu department,” he remarked. Talking to The News, he recited a Persian couplet of Ghalib which translates into “If you want to read original colours, read my Persian poetry, keep my Urdu poetry aside that is colourless like me.” However, Dr Ramzan Bamari, the incharge of the Persian department believes that the teachers of the Urdu department do not know what Ghalib had said in Persian about his Urdu poetry. Those in the Persian department often construe from the wall inscription that the Urdu department belittles them. The wall of the Urdu department, which is clearly visible from the Persian side, is inscribed with a couplet from an Urdu ghazal of Ghalib - “Jo Yeh Kahe Keh Rekhta Kyunkeh Ho Rashk-e-Farsi/ Gufta-e-Ghalib Aik Baar Parh Ke Use Suna Ke Yun ”.
Since then, no foreign expert came to impart knowledge of Persian at the varsity.Īs if the internal atmosphere of the department is not enough for its faculty members to remain in a constant state of gloom, a writing on the wall of the adjacent Urdu department, which enjoys a considerable number of students, seems to rub salt into the wounds of the Persian department. Some 10 years ago, Dr Ali Muhammad from the Tehran University had come to the KU to teach Persian at the department.
The varsity administration has also seemingly put the issues of the department on the backburner as no appointments against four vacant positions of a professor, an associate professor, an assistant professor, and a lecturer have been made.
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