Calligraphy is gaining popularity among school students through workshops and training programmes conducted by local artists. While the traditional art helps improve handwriting and creativity, calligraphers say professional opportunities have declined due to technology, though demand remains for specialised decorative work.
At the Center, students are seen diligently working on their drawing sheets, wielding reed pens with precision to craft graceful strokes of Urdu couplets and Quranic verses. Prof. S.A. Shukoor, secretary of the Idara, and master calligrapher M.A. Gaffar, have been instrumental in reviving and sustaining interest in this traditional art form.
Jammu and Kashmir: A calligraphy workshop organised here by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages attracted many art lovers, especially girls and women. For the past two years, such activities could not be held due to the Covid pandemic. In Kashmir, calligraphy has a thousand-year-old rich history, but due to modernisation, […]
Hyderabad: An exhibition on “Islamic Contemporary Art and Calligraphy” was organised on the occasion of the Aalami Urdu Conference at Anwar ul Uloom Institution. Nawab Mahboob Alam Khan, Chairman, Anwar ul Uloom Group of Institutions, and M Vedakumar, Chairman, Deccan Heritage Academy, participated in the concluding day of the exhibition. Nawab Mahboob Alam Khan appreciated […]
