I was in 7th standard when Talimi Mela(1981) resumed after a long haul.
Apart from many activities, i took part in a story writing competition.
During those years it was teachers responsibility to identify the students interest in different fields & groom them accordingly.
Those were the days when Good/neat writing constitutes 05 numbers in examination & advantage while securing marks in sessional tests.
SO, it was an open story writing competition & for the first time i prepared myself to write something.
I wrote the story of a proud & arrogant frog went on competition with an elephant for unnecessary thing & ultimately lost his life.
My story got third prize & published with my name & photograph in "PAYAME TALEEM" A renowned monthly Urdu magazine for children, Published by Maktaba Jamia Limited.
I felt very happy with this achievement & my teacher along with my friends praised me too.
The time passes quickly & almost after 6weeks i received one letter on school address from one of the publishing house in Bombay praising my story & wanted to send 12 story book as an appreciation!
I was delighted & confirmed them without wasting time.
Within three weeks i received 12 nice story books.
Actually, it was an appreciation with encouragement to write more good story's.
I never felt sorry for not writing a single story since after instead i started with essays from time to time in URDU & was comfortable & confident in that.
It may be possible that i still have copy of that Payame taleem number back in Delhi.
There were only two Urdu magazines meant for children at that time & the other one was monthly magazine "KHILONA".
I still posses many payame taleem in Dubai as well but it is unfortunate that Pyame talim has reduced its reader ship drastically & is on verge to close down.
It hapened due to lack of urdu reader ship & encouragemnet of urdu by the parents themsleves.
The first publication of Maktaba Jamia was DEEWANE GHALIB, which was got printed by Dr.Zakir Hussain in Berlin (Germany) in 1925.
I hope Reader ship of Payame taleem will increase & people will bring back this magazine to its original size & glory.
Address to subscribe Payame taleem is:
Maktaba Jamia Limited
Jamia Millia Islamia,
Maulana Mohammed Ali Johar Marg,
New Delhi, 110025.
India.
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