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.
I was able to find following two photos at flickr of Adamjee College’s main gate. This photos are courtesy of Zain Yoonas.
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Good to know that you are from Adamjee.We were there in 1968. As you mentioned , it did changed a lot in 20 years.
Adnan
Nazmi saheb was the editor of Urdu section of the magazine in which I got this article published. He also edited this article and added a few sentences on positive side of College.
I had first drafted this article on a sheet of “register” (long notebook) paper with a lead pencil and took it to Nazmi Saheb for submission. He looked at it and asked me to write it again in ‘khush khat’ (better hand writing) :) So i wrote it again with the same hand writing but by interleaving one empty line b/w each line of text. This time he accepted it :)
Nazmi saheb taught us Urdu Poetry in both first year and second year.
i cant stop laughin :D….im currently enrolled in adamjee govt science college..2nd year..to be honest ..nothin has changed ..except that naala u talked abt..!! waise very well written..i wish our college still published a magazine..i would hve loved to contribute…
Urdu in high schools remind me some famous Urdu teacher who were very “hot” till 90s. Adamjee’s urdu professor Nazmi Sb and Govt college for men’s Prof. Rabbani were very demanding. Usually Nazmi sb’s notes were not easy to memorize while Rabbani Sb’s notes were very easy to understand.
Reminds me of Patras Bukhari and his ‘Lahore Ka Gugrafia’ (Geography of Lahore). This true that ‘writer’s bug’ never goes away. Thanks for the memories.