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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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.
i will also say that If a first year student can write this kind of article/essay he can write much more if he is still writing
Bohat Khooob!
Thoroughly enjoyed reading it … I wonder if you are writing even now. If this piece is written by a first year kid … I’m sure the kid must have written many more enjoyable pieces :)
Mujahid Saheb. thanks a lot for sharing your thougths here. Eventhough i got to see the auditorium from inside just couple of times in my two year stay at the college, i could tell its ‘shan-e-rafta’ from its design.
By late 80s, intermediate colleges had been reduced to just being a ‘ladder’ to climb and go into professional colleges. It was a mad race all about getting higher marks in the exams. There were no extra-curricular activities like ‘hafta-e-talaba’ etc.
We did have inter-collegiate competitions under Karachi Inter board though. Adamjee’s debates and Table-Tennis teams were the champions. The now controversial personality, ‘Amir Liaqat Hussain’ was our batch mate and debate champion
I played in Cricket team and were are ok. We reached quarter Finals one year.
Owais
Jawab nahin Tumhara. Kiya Khub Likha hai. Tum ney meri yadon ko taza kur diya. Mein Adamjee College ka Magazine Secretary Raha hun 1973-74 ki Union mein. Khawar hamarey magazine ka naam tha. woh zamana nazron mein ghoom gaya.
go hamarey zamanaey mein sarak itni makhdoosh nahin thee aur auditorium bhee urooj pur tha. Salam Sahib Agar mujhey naam sahih yaad hai tho woh auditorium key nigran they. Hamara student’s week karachi bhur mein mashhoor tha. Khas thor pur Debates aur annual musical or drama day mein door door sey log aatey they. Mein ney donon saal yani 72/73 aur 73/74 mein do dramon mein markazi kirdar ada kiya tha. Bohat sari baten yaad arahi hein magar waqt ijazat nahin dey raha hai. tumharey mazmoon ki beshter cheezen wohi hein jo hamarey zamaney mein theen.
Mujahid Ghazi