Friday, April 5, 2013

Rereading History: Molvi Tameezudin & the Myth

Rereading History: Molvi Tameezudin & the Myth
We are habitual to learn history either in the forms of Kings, military campaigners or as heroes and enemies. some over smart intellectuals carved it in HAAQ (truth or certainty  and BATAAL ( untruth or falsehood)which is another eyewash.  Cannot we read history as a mixture of good & bad things, some people may played very brilliant but he or she had also many shortcomings. Once we leave our prides and prejudices, we can learn from history so Give a break to placing things in Black & White for a while and let us taste de-construction. Molvi Tamizudin Khan, A bengali was the first speaker of the first constitutional assembly of Pakistan. if u read books about Pakistan u w be astonish to know how researchers either local or Indian or Europeans or Americans made him hero. May be his one act would be good yet he was pioneer of non democratic traditions in Pakistan. Later on he also joined marshallah government of General Ayub Khan as speaker. read the story 

http://e.dunya.com.pk/detail.php?date=2013-04-06&edition=LHR&id=273983_81246100



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