College magazine Roshani Government University, Faisalabad in three languages
ROSHANI…. College magazine of the Government College University, Faisalabad in three languages English (84), Urdu (154), Punjabi (50) pages jointly edited by Arif, Qamar and Ali Usman under the supervision of Dr. Ifzal Ahmad Anwar; Published from Faisalabad.
The first issue of the magazine was brought out in 1931 and its editor was Bal Raj Nijhawan and in English it was titled Beacon. In 1947, it was closed down rather suspended and many years after it was restarted with the following verse;
There is a strange sort of coincidence that most of the contributors to the English and Urdu sections are students while most of the contribution has been made by the teachers in the Punjabi section which is one fifths of the whole magazine. The other contributors in this section are well-known writers of the city and the district. The matter of concern is whether students have no creative interest in Punjabi literature or what?
Prof Dr. Riaz Ahmad Qadri has contributed an interesting article on Quaid-i-Azam’s visit to Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) in November, 1942, for the first and the last time. Some time before the Quaid’s visit, the then Punjab chief minister Sir Sikander presided over the conference of Zamindars in which some derogatory remarks about the Quaid were passed which provoked the Muslim Leaguers and the next year the Quaid came to preside over the provincial conference. Dr. Qadri has done his job excellently but he missed what the Quaid had said in support of the poor farmers, tenants, and farm workers on the occasion.Dawn
