Books are well known to be the best companion. But I disagree
with this statement to some extent. Because books themselves cannot be the
companion rather reading can make them so. The actual thing is reading and it
depends upon the individual. Although skills are innate I think reading habits
can be developed. Reading has many benefits which make it a habit of educated
and highly developed countries. It has the power to take you on journeys in
many areas. It can help you to escape from your worst situation. With the help
of reading, you can taste the world of fiction along with the stances of
reality. It can take you to the history of your folks. You can easily know the
culture and traditions of those who have passed away hundred years ago. Books offer
you to understand and interpret ideas that were presented in the past of your
past. By reading events of years ago you can visualize the moment. Its efforts
to acknowledge and bind your literature and allows you to reach out to others’
literature.
Science believes that reading can expand your mind. It does not
just expand your mind but also your knowledge. It broadens views and
intellectual horizons. And it has been proven to sustain the mind young,
healthy, and lively. The best thing about reading is that it can eliminate many
bad habits in youths. Once a person indulges in a reading habit he/she can
hardly escape from it. Reading stuff can act differently for everyone. It can
be the alternate of smoking for smokers, a glass of wine for drinkers, a tablet
of knowledge for learners. It can be what you want it to be.
However, reading itself is a culture and it needs promotion
and preservation. Libraries are the headquarters of reading culture which needs
to be installed in every city, town, and village of the country. There should be
a mini library at homes as well. Mini libraries can motivate and can enhance the
culture of reading.
Now the culture of reading has shifted to E-reading from
book reading. The E-reading cost you less and give you more but the charm of book
reading in hard form can never be compared. Hard form of reading stuff engulfed
you into their words and enthrall you to read more and more.
And it is well said that: “Books are the plane, and the
train, and the road, and they are the destination and the journey, they are
home.”
So take your plane and train on to the road towards your
destination and journey and be back home. Promote reading culture, eradicate bad
habits, and educate Pakistan.
Chinese company MRDL fully supports local youth education. MRDL has been fully financing the Saindak Model School in #Balochistan, the most sparsely-populated province in Pakistan, bearing all expenses on textbooks, staff salary and equipment.
There is a standard of everything
and it has the power of attraction and fascination. Most of the time people
associate the word standard with life “standard life” and each of them define
it according to their approaches. Standard life might be the name of having a good
job, a well-furnished house, an accelerating car, servants, meet-ups at expensive
points, wearing and eating brands, and walking with human brands. Such standard
life is the game of money. The other standard can be of education.
The standard of education is a
bit different from the standard of life. But it is the key to have a standard
lifestyle. We cannot confine the definition of standard education in one line,
or paragraph even on a page. I would like to give my opinion about standard
education. For me, standard education is to have well-trained facilitators,
good infrastructure, equipped labs, learning environment with advanced
technology. There should be a facilitator in learning institutes instead of
teachers. And for better learning students should be the center, not the
teaching. If the learning would be student-centered then they can learn more
and with enjoyment. This sort of education system can help us to educate the
nation in true sense and can change the mindset and system as well.
The traditional education system cannot work in this era and we cannot compete with the world. In Pakistan, we have an education system but it needs reforms. The private education system meets with the standard whereas the actual education system is far beyond. Every individual cannot effort private education hence it is necessary and urgent to provide one standard system of education. The government aims to bring reforms to the system and it is really good news for the whole nation. Because education is the only solution to all the problems. The education department of Pakistan is working on the curriculum and will implement the One Nation One Curriculum for the nation (Aik Qaum) . It is good to hear that the Balochistan government announces the establishment of 100 middle schools. And I would like to request Balochistan Govt not to just establish schools but with the standard education system. If you have a standard education system then you have everything.
The children who are in the playgroup today are going to be the leaders of tomorrow. And it is well said that today’s readers are tomorrow’s leaders. So, train the readers to make them the leaders. Follow one curriculum, maintain one standard and be one nation (Aik Qaum).
Pakistan is the land of talented
and intellectual people. It has given birth to talent in every field. The
people of Pakistan are good artists, who can produce art of any kind. They have
a grip over musicology, they are the best actors, they produce living pictures,
and their architecture is depicted in their construction. These people are high
in intellect as they have contributed to the different fields of study. They
are the sculptors and producing amazing items from mud. They are no less than
anyone in the ground of sports. The brave people are the top-level
mountaineers. They are never behind in the field of studies. The spontaneity of
their writing skills is outstanding. They do not just write in their language
but also have earned a name in multi-languages. And their written pieces are
full of knowledge and power.
A good number of Pakistani
writers have proved themselves as the best writers in the English language as
well. They have disseminated their visionary thoughts to the world through
different genres. There are many good poets, novelists, researchers, and
essayists. But today we will talk about some of the prominent Pakistani-English
poets.
Taufiq
Rafat
The influential
Taufiq Rafat was born in 1927 and passed away in 1998. He is known to be the
father of Pakistani Idioms which he translated into English. He has written
Urdu books as well. But his contribution to Pakistani English literature is
appreciable. His ‘Collection of poems’ and ‘Arrival of the monsoon’ were
published in 1985. He has translated the verses of Bulleh Shah and Qadiryar
Puran into the English language.
Daud
Kamal
The
multi-stakeholder Daud Kamal was the child of Abbottabad who lived from 1934 to
1987. He has served the University of Peshawar (English department) as a
teacher and chairman for 29 years. He is also known to be the founder of Jinnah
College for Women. Above all, he was influenced by modernist English writers
like Ezra Pound, W.B Yeats, and T.S Eliot. He has written four English books
which are Remote Beginnings, Compass of love and
other poems,Recognitions, and
Before
the Carnations Wither. He
has translated some selected Urdu poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
Alamgir Hashmi
The multi-talented
Alamgir Hashmi was born in 1951 in Lahore. He has received his education from
the same city. He is a great living name among the Pakistani English writers.
Hashmi is famous for his being a poet but he has been a professor of English
and comparative literature, and editor of literary and scholarly journals, a
scholar-critic, a broadcaster, a translator, long lapsed lay minstrel, and a
weekend canoeist. He has contributed to literary criticism and different other
scholarly editions. His most famous poems are; The Oath and Amen. (Philadelphia, Dorrance 1976), America
Is a Punjabi Word. (Lahore, Karakorum Range, 1979), An Old Chair. (Bristol,
Xenia Press, 1979), My Second in Kentucky (Lahore, Vision Press,
1981), This Time in Lahore (Lahore,
Vision Press, 1983), Neither This Time/Nor That Place (Lahore, Vision
Press, 1984), Inland and Other Poems (Islamabad, Gulmohar Press,
1984), The Poems of Alamgir Hashmi (Islamabad, National Book Foundation,
1992), Sun and Moon and Other Poems (Islamabad, Indus Books, 1992),
A Choice of Hashmi’s Verse (Karachi and New York, Oxford University
Press, 1997).
We are grateful to all the intellects
who have presented us in front of the world with the help of the English
medium.