Jlandar to Lhore
Looking Back @Pre-Partition Punjabi Times
A memoir by Shahid Hameed
(Some Extracts)
We will add extracts gradually.
Life story of Shahid Hamid...teacher, journalist, translator and writer born in 1928 in the Punjabi city Jlandhar . The book is published by Ilqa--an imprint of readings, lhore A good reading to understand pre-partition Punjab and its socio-political circumstances. Retired from GC, Lhore in 1988 S H is among heavy weights who translated War & Peace , The Brothers Karamazov, Old man and the sea, etc. You can even improve your Punjabi language through this book as S H used these words with their meanings.
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Why We Went on Wrong Side after 1947 Interview of 88 year Old writer from the Punjab Published in the News on Sunday
Reviews
Published in Humshehri نامور مترجم کی سوانح حیات
Shahid Hameed has pointed out all such blunders in his brilliant critique of the dictionary entitled Tabsara…Urdu-Angrezi Lughat
Shahid Hameed has pointed out all such blunders in his brilliant critique of the dictionary entitled Tabsara…Urdu-Angrezi Lughat
Mera Pind
Migration within & outside the Punjab; Demographic Changes, New settlements and Canal colonies
A story of British Punjab still needs attention of researchers especially sociologists to understand it.
How Punjabi Villages started schools is also among unheard stories of the Punjab. As par Indian Education register there was unprecedented growth of schools during first 4 decades of 20th century in the Punjab. Mian Fazl e Hussain and his team played a vital role in 1920s and 1930s. Punjab was leading in education much before partition. Numerous rich and influential Punjabi families participated in that campaign and S H recorded what he saw in his village.
Education was cheap and affordable
Informal use of Punjabi language was part of learning which enable Punjabi kids to improve their skills. This reality is largely missing in Pakistani educationists and they still fail to understand relationship of early education and mother tongue. The larger questions of access and quality in early education cannot achieve until we accept mother tongues as medium of instruction in primary schools.
Indigenous health care formulas were cheap, effective and fordable unlike allopathic mantras
Blessings of First Marshallah & destruction of institutions
There are still some over smart intellectuals who praised Ayub still in 21st century.
Forgotten world of Gramophone
Misleading Lucknow Pact of 1916, Twisted leadership of Urdu Speakings in Muslim minority Provinces and fatal Impacts of Lucknow Pact on the Punjab
It was Allama Iqbal who called Lukhnow Pact a Pitfall in his historic Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address of Allahbad yet in out textbooks we still read praise for that misleading pact.
School teachers used to introduce districts, rivers, demography of the Punjab yet it is largely missing in our current textbooks
Real Power & brutal face of state is still patwari. One can understand why Civil military bureaucracy and subordinate bureaucracy is against elected tier. They rightly think that strengthening of elected tier will reduce their power. They don't want to share the power but in democracy sharing of power is the basic key. We got that gift of anti-elected tier syndrome from colonial empire and still it is ruling on the people. No wonder why we have a strong group in media against democracy and elected tier. Pakistan's prime contradiction is rule of elected tier till today.
School (class 8) in British Punjab, Wohind people and Politics behind allotments of agricultural lands in the West Punjab after 1947.
Death of a Publisher, Iqbal Saleem Gandhriwala & Late Nafeez Academy
Gandhiwala is a pind near Nakodar, District Jlandhar, Punjab and Iqbal was the one who established a very rich publishing house Nafeez Academy which is now no more.
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