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Doctors who shouldn’t be
From Lahore to Indian cinema THE article by Saeed Malik (issue of July 14, 2002) entitled From Lahore to Indian cinema was very interesting and informative. However, I want to point out that few persons were mistakenly quoted from Punjab. Pirthvi Raj Kapoor had never worked at the then Calcutta. He and composer/producer Rafique Ghaznavi both belonged to Peshawar. Pirthvi was still studying at Edward’s College in Peshawar, while his father, Lala Bashisher Nath, was deputed to Bombay Police. The Kapoor family shifted thereafter. The writer has quoted Nazim Panipati and Rajinder Krishen as Punjabi. Panipat in Punjab? Rajinder Krishen was also from the South. Saeed Malik has missed some elites,too, such as Bilraj Sahani and two present-day lyricists, Anand Bakhshi and Dev Kohli. These three belonged to Rawalpindi. He also missed a great actor, Rehman, and a very fine writer/lyricist, Raja Mohdi Ali Khan (nephew of the great leader, freedom fighter, poet, writer and journalist, Moulana Zafar Ali Khan). ENVER EIJAZ KHAN Peshawar Love seeketh self to delight I HAVE read the article by Fareeha Khan Sherwani entitled Love seeketh self to delight (issue of July 14, 2002), in which she compares Shakespeare to Shaw. I thoroughly disagree with her. She has compared the two eras, and not the two dramatists. Shakespearean characters have been a source of psychological study. Sigmund Freud has done a psychoanalytical study on the Macbeths (Macbeth and Lady Macbeth). Shaw’s Pygmalion does not present a very realistic view of the world as the writer claims. Professor Higgins decides to tutor a flower girl, thinking that he would make her suitable for the elite. Isn’t this dwelling into fancy? I guess the writer has not read the superb playwright of all times, William Shakespeare. His language is an industry in itself: he has used a range of 30,000 words in his plays, whereas we only use 10 to 15,000 words these days. It would have been better for the writer to compare the two contemporaries such as Shakespeare or Marlowe, but the comparison between an Elizabethan dramatist and a Modern Irish dramatist makes no sense at all. SHARMEEN AKBANI Karachi A closed mind I TOTALLY agree with Manzoor Ahmed and the views he has expressed in his article A closed mind (issue of July 28, 2002) that the ills that plague our society such as decreasing tolerance, increasing aggression and violence, dulling of moral sensitivity, etc, are fast becoming the hallmark of our society. Where is all this going to lead us to as a nation? Somewhere dark, bleak and depressing, I’m sure. Why can’t there be people who care about what we contribute towards society. Mind you, I do not say educated people here because education, as I have learned, does not necessarily guarantee refinement of the senses needed to uplift society. We, as a nation, need to take a close look at ourselves and do something about societal deterioration before it gets too late and we are left with nothing. This great nation was created by a great man to fulfil a great destiny. It’s a crime to just stand by and watch its destruction by the very people for whom it was created in the first place. FARAH SHAUKAT Karachi | ||
I AM seriously disappointed by the writer’s thoughts in the article Doctors who shouldn’t be (issue of July 14, 2002). The writer is a male chauvinist!|
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