Brays and Neighs

By Maham Tanveer

Our biggest and most distressful national tragedy is that, we comfortably adopt the direction, we are directed to. It is as a donkey rides see-saw and believes that he is heading towards his new office of governor. But the most ancient thing that has always whirled around and among us, is "changing the system". Any system of government has not become profitable to us since 63 years of creation. It cannot become actually as long as we follow others. Root cause of all our problems is that we don't adopt what suit us!!

It is exactly the same as students of Mass Communication (UOK) and the syllabus taught to them. We live in Pakistan, quote French quotations, wear Italian, eat Malaysian, watch Indian and study American. It is a fact that we are bombarded at books and as a result, students like us, chop books to bits. It is as our teachers teach differently the same topic from the same book. If currency is a news value for one teacher, for other, it is a thing to be laughed upon. We have studied different definitions of news, some of them are :

news is news and views is views

everything that is new, is a news (so everything with physic is physics??)

One said read as much as you can, other said write as much as you can, the next said speak as much as .... We read rejected constitutions of Pakistan scores of time, but never read that where Quaid-e-Azam used which policy?

Apart from professional jealousies, our some teachers are victims of departmental jealousies too. Our very dedicated compulsory teacher said : I will never teach in Mass Com after this, then he placed an order of hanging at least 7 fans in every room, then ordered AC in every class too, then he felt insufficient ventilation and then finally he had problem with duster too. We had traditional day today and I am glad to say that he did not DESPERATELY comment on it.

We have some teachers who mark absent of whole class when class goes for IT (ijtamai tulla) but they themselves never come on time or don't come instead. Last day a girl came to me (when i was resting on department's favorite sofa) and asked that she want admission in Mass Com, is it tough? You should be gossip expert to pass time, I replied!

We were taught by a teacher who took 3 classes in whole semester. We were taught by a subsidiary teacher who gave marks in 90s to students whom he knew by name (no matter if they took classes or not) and 70s and 80 - 85 marks to remainders. It means that you can score remarkable marks if you are often found in teacher's office. And now we are being taught by a subsidiary teacher who, after asking meaning of some word, says "kissi k baap mein himmat nahin hai k mujhe is ka meaning bata de". We have heard epithets of "dog" and "ullu ka patha" from a teacher. One teacher even prated in class, don't know what!

Our some teachers are victims of idealism and male chauvinism too. You use heavy words and philosophy and you will become favorite.

I am not apologetic if I hurt anyone' sentiments through this post. After so much of investigative work, I wanted to speak my heart out, the heart which is fluttering with hopes, trembling with thoughts of 2 more FREE years in Mass Com and waiting anxiously for job's golden era :)