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NOOR SAHIB AN ICONIC TEACHER
Noor Sahib An Iconic Teacher Zahid G Muhammad # Noor Sahib: An Iconic Teacher Zahid G Muhammad I see a parallel between books and teachers. We read many books, admire quite a number, and love only a few. As someone once said—quite well, I might add—books shape our lives and increase our understanding, and there comes a phase in life when we deride a book that once influenced and shaped our thinking. That, I believe, holds for teachers as well. Almost one-third of our lives are behind the ramparts of schools, colleges, and universities. It would be fair to say we pass these years away from real society on a sort of island, where our companions are a few classmates and buddies, our superiors are our teachers, and our superior boss is the school headmaster … Read entire article »
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Visit to Alma Mater: Reliving The Happiest Moments of Childhood
Nostalgia An Afternoon In Alma Mater By ZGM Something happened inside me, I involuntarily pushed my foot on the brake pedal, stopped in front of the main gate of my alma mater with a screeching sound disturbing the passers-by. I don’t know if it was the crumbling building, once buzzing science block of my school with its shattered windows that got on my nerves- stopped my car. Or the crescent-shaped signboard, reading in bright letters Islamia Higher Secondary … Read entire article »
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Rasul Saab Kashmir’s Own Sir Syed
It was the day. The day, I and my peers waited for months together. It was a loveable wait, as loveable as lover’s legendry longing for beloved in classical love stories. The wait for the day started, as I remember from the day the school opened after long winter vacations. I very vividly remember the preparation for the founder’s day —- the Rasul Sahib’s day as it was popularly known started immediately after the annual examinations would be finished. Those days’ annual examinations would be conducted in the month of March. The sword of examinations and tests did not hang on children’s head for the complete year- tests did not make children psychological wrecks, these were biannual affair “shashmahi” and “salana” examinations. The shashmahi examinations did not get on children’s nerves. … Read entire article »
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