Adil Najam
Do you know what place this is? Can you recognize any or all of the buildings you see? And how is it important to Pakistan?
I suspect this ATP Quiz is either a little too easy. Or, maybe, not easy at all. I guess we shall find out soon enough.
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And the giants roamed GC.
While looking up info on GC, came across gem of information on GC. It seems that GC has the unique distinction of being the only college in South Asia to produce two Nobel Laureates: Dr. Hargobind Khorana (in the field of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and Dr. Abdul Salam (in the field of Physics).
We all know (or should know) about Dr. Salam. Less publicized, is that Salam Chair in Physics was established in the memory of the Nobel Laureate and Ravian, Physicist, Dr. Abdus Salam. The chair will promote and enhance the research activity in Physics at GC University, Lahore. A distinguished physicist of international repute Dr. G. Murtaza, S.l. has been appointed as the first Salam Professor of Physics. His specialization is in Theoretical Particle Physics & Plasma Physics.
In yet another great honor, the most prominent part of the Main Building, the magnificent Main Hall, is now called Dr. Abdus Salam Hall.
Hargobind Khorana was born in Raipur, Kabirwala, Khanewal, a village in Pakistan (then British India).
His father was the village “patwari” or modernly known as zamindar, an equivalent of a taxation official. He was home schooled by his father, and he later attended D.A.V. Multan High School. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States serving as MIT’s Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Emeritus. (Wiki)
Hopefully, someone living near Cambridge may find inclination to interview him for the posterity.
Go Ravians!
When the students came by bike, motorbike or car, they parked in the main parking area of the GC which is now “New Block” as @Straw pointed out.
And it was a “kacha” parking lot, so during the rains; well, you get the picture.
Oh, yes, the food!
I never thought I would talk about Physics dept this much. I never had Ohms for it.
But at the very far side of the Physics dept, facing the bicycle stand, was the one and only “sandwich guy”.
I think for Rs. 2.50 or so, he offered two slices of white bread and a keema patty. But that was not the trick. He offered his special “kay-chup”. He made it himself. And it can be described as a combination of ketchup and Tabasco. Sweet and spicy.
Ummmm Ummmm. My mouth is flooded with memories.
And we layered it.
We spread it on the slice. One slice at a time. We soaked it on the patty. And when slapped together, we spread more on the ends. And dipped yet more, with each bite, where the last bite took the red.
I do not know why a bib was not a requirement to eat this because it would drip worse than a bad faucet.
He could not keep us away or the crowds.
Many of Pakistan’s “san-cy” brains of today owe it to “sandwich guy” to keep their joules at par.
Off to the right, beyond the Iqbal Hostels are, as @Straw pointed out, are the new Quaid e Azam Hostels. It used to be a slope in the ground. And upon it was, what can be best described as a kachi abadi. GC maintenance staff used to live there.
I assume, progress have moved them off the campus.
On the other hand, progress have brought Iqbal and Jinnah together again.
Come to think of it, I like it. No better way to infuse the expanse of Iqbal and the discipline of Jinnah.
Is there another comparable pairing anywhere in Pakistan?
an indoor pool
Try as he may and as many times, we did not beleive him. The fact was that the swimming pool keeper did not keep the pool clean.
His answer: pidgeons.
Well, you see, the run down structure was an pool. The roof was of fluted metal, with ventilation zone running through the middle. And there were pigeon nests in those girders.
He excuse to not to be able to get rid of them was that it needed repairs but to get up there was very “khatar-naq” as it might collapse, injuring workers.
In fairness, he was right.
But still, could he keep the pool cleaner by cleaning it more often and recycling the water? His was a shrug. A Yoda shrug.
And pigeons did what they do.
And we swam with the pidgeons.