Following is something I wrote 20 years ago for Adamjee College’s annual Magazine. Time flies guys! While going through my stuff today, I found the magazine and thought of sharing the article here. Pardon me if some of the write up appears too lame in 2008. Imagine that I was just a first year teenage student then. While some of the text may appear to be sarcasm, I am very proud of my college and I hope many of our readers will be able to relate to their college life in Pakistan.
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No i don’t recall that particular debate contest but just by reading about it I can imagine how interesting it must’ve been. ‘bivi maa se afzal hai’ :) is a great topic for debate.
D. Murtaza also taught us English Poetry and he was the editor of English section of Magazine in 88-89.
D Murtaza used to put extra effort on our English pronunciation. One day a very funny event happened. He spent almost 20 minutes fixing whole class’ pronunciation of the word ‘truth’. He tried all kinds of tricks; ‘touch your tongue to upper teeth and softly say the word t.r.u.t.h’ :) I think we all got it after repeating it atleast 50 times.
After D. Murtaza’s class was over, the very next class was of mathematics with Ahmed Saheb and he was teaching us the chapter of ‘logic’ with Truth Tables. You know Ahmed Saheb’s Urdu-mixed-English pronunciation. He used to say calculator as kaaalkooolator. Well, while teaching ‘Truth’ tables he completely destroyed the hardwork done by D. Murtaza just a class before him. Ahmed Saheb’s sentences went like this; ‘dekho aaj hum banaayen ge ‘TURRUTH Table’. tum bhi banaao ‘TURRUTH Table….aaj ka sabaq hai TURRUTH Table..’ and so on.
Whenever few Adamjeeans of my batch meet, we still laugh about this episode of ‘Truth’.
Owais,
This reminds me the days of Adamjee.
I was also part of the magazine team and infact we used to have discussions in his area on various topics with our English teach Dedar Murtaza aka DM on various topics.
The auditorium was reopened during our last year and infact we had a ceremony where the top position holders were invited and infact Muniba Sheikh the famous Naat Khwan was there.
I do recall that Aamir Liaquat Hussain once came for the declamation contest and he won it with a big margin.
The topic was “Beevi Maan seh Afzal Hai”. He spoke in favour of that and there was another lady from St.Joseph’s College who is competing her and was leader of opp.
Not sure if you recall that as well.