Pakistan, June 30 -- Bazm-e-Rooh Rihan in its continued series of literary sessions, hosted an event under title 'Marsia, Noha and Manajat in Sindhi literature' in Qasimabad Business Forum hall here Sunday.
Presiding over the session, eminent writer and scholar Professor Ashraf Simon said that the meaning of Marsia was to cry and describe good deeds.
The first Marsia in Sindhi was written by Syed Sabit Ali Shah. He said that Karbala was the biggest humanitarian tragedy.
Chief guest, educational expert Idrees Jatoi said that Munajat was derived from the Arabic word Naaji, the first poet of this generation was Abdullah Narai, but Sarfraz Kalhori's Manajat written in prison became more popular. The literal meaning of madah is to admire and ...