|
|
|
March 25, 2004
Post Mark: The golden years
In her article (TR Mar 18), Shabnam Nasir painted a dark gloomy picture of old age despite giving it a shining title. I believe old age has more than one silver lining. Old people are at an advantage and can get more pleasure from life, but only if they have developed their aesthetic sense. Robert Browning said, youth is not the best period of life, and Ernest Hemingway wrote on this issue in his famous novel Old man and the sea. We old men have to face only the sea, and not the devil, because even the devil leaves you alone during “the golden years”.
NIZAMUDDIN DEHLIVI
Faisalabad
The right to choose
This is in reference to Urooba Taher’s article (TR Mar 18), on the right to choose what we watch on TV. Human beings have a right to choose, but they have started going astray because of their wrong use of this right. Some “right people” should be there to show this deluded populace the correct path, and I think this can be none other than the government. Along with the right to choose, some limitations are also imposed, and I think this is because of the limitations that the word “humanity” still exists in the dictionary. In her article she has said that we are all keyed up to remove any thing related to love. I would like to remind her that love is not what your cable TV shows, it is some thing else that has been lost in this haze of misconceptions.
AISHA MEMON
Hyderabad
(2)
I completely disagree with Urooba Taher. Human beings have the natural tendency to fall astray and it is the duty of the government to impose some restrictions upon them. One day, some modernists will ask “why is there a restriction on morally unsound movies because it’s everyone’s right to see what they want? Why is there any restriction on explicit literature because it’s our right to read what we want? It is us who choose between right or wrong.”
I agree that while it is primarily the duty of the parents to show their children what is right and what is wrong, what if some parents are morally ambiguous themselves? How is it the children’s fault if they are led astray and there is no one to guide them? Wouldn’t it be your responsibility as a Muslim to show them the right path?
EHTSHAM ELAHI
Lahore
Memoirs of a ‘junkie’
It was callous of Muna Khan (TR Mar 18), to trivialize such a person as Dr A. Q. Khan. We should not desecrate a national hero who has fallen prey to an international conspiracy, not essentially against him, but, in reality, against our country. The poor doctor has been made a scapegoat for that. We should wait till the reality trickles down to expose the real picture.
DR KHAWAR
Via email
Attack on education
The attacks on schools in the Northern areas of Pakistan show how conservative people are (TR Mar 11). It is cruelty on the future of those children who are unfortunate residents there. Obviously we need to provide better standards of education to a generation that is deprived because our literacy rate is so low. In this regard it is the duty of the local government of that area to provide a secure and better educational environment, so that the children living there may continue their education.
SHOAIB NASIR
Turbat
|
|
|
|
