This blog will be reflection of my ideas. I expect people to read it but it is more for myself. Here onward I will be blabbering, scribbling my coherent or incoherent, powerful or weak, interesting or boring imagination.
Urooj-e aadam-e khaki se anjum sahme jaate hain Ke yeh toota hua taara mah-e kaamil na ban jaaye A man was born at a time when darkness engulfed the Indian society in general and muslims in particular. He acquired knowledge and wisdom and achieved un-scaled height of scholarship in varied arena. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was a silver lining on otherwise dark cloud shadowing the Indian subcontinent throughout the 19 th century. He awakened from slumber the somnolent community, which was oblivious of fast changing politico-social scene of 19 th century. His indelible footprint still guides the activists who endeavor for positive changes in society. Many treatises have been written about Aligarh movement. The Aligarh Urdu tehreek needs special focus today as this movement was to regain the rich Socio-Cultural heritage lost by muslim community. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was litterateur par excellence and steered the Aligarh movement for reform in Urdu literature. He tried t...
Rewayat-e pareenah kuch yun kho gaya Shab ki tareeki mein jaise din kho gaya Hui aaj muhabbat bebaak is qadar Izhar-e muhabbat ka saleeqa kho gaya Mukhtasar si zindagi is tarah basar hui Taweel safar pe jaise musafir so gaya Jashn ka silsilah thamta nahi hai yaan Ghareeb-e shahr jabki bhukha mar gaya Tum hue kyon muztarib ai Imteyaz Dost tha jo aaj agar bewafa ho gaya
Today’s TV channels and Telescreen of George Orwell's '1984' Anyone who has not read the novel ‘1984’ may mistake it to be about anti Sikh riot of Delhi. The novel ‘1984’ is in fact a visualization of totalitarian society, a dystopia. It is one of the most famous novels of dystopian genre. This novel is so timeless that what is depicted in the novel holds true for different generations and societies. Though the novel portrays so many facets of an all powerful authoritarian regime, here I am trying to visualize the news studio vis-à-vis the dystopia of ‘1984’. The news channels today act like omnipresent Telescreen of Oceania. The hate session which is conducted for two minutes on the Telescreen of Oceania goes on incessantly 24x7 today. The news channels convert any event which increases the TRP into breaking news and the real breaking news is ignored. The news rooms are converted into war rooms and media trial rooms. The nation wants answer, is repeated...
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