Literary Chamber. Teaching English

My write up published in Goodmorning Kashmir (01/04/2026)
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Unemployment, Social and Behavioural Tendency
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iss daur ki zulmat ma insaan vohi hai,
Jo Haqeeqat ko dekhay Haqeeqat ki nazar sey.
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I don't judge it a humane tendency to expose any real unemployed youth to present my point of view.So, to be a representative voice makes me compelled to shoulder the burden of exposing myself so that others are spared of this humiliation which might otherwise raise my honour .
To be unemployed that too in a state where least opportunities prevail and systematic disorder reigns over the time,where there is no private sector to accommodate unemployed fellows,where being educated has become a burden of disgrace and where people value your worth in terms of money and not your potential. Where relationship is tied with string of a govt job , where your family and friends taunt you at the evening, where your relatives ignore you,where decision making is snatched from you, where you are kept in the margin and above all where people show unreal pity on your condition- it is really very tough and like a thumb on your windpipe that doesn't allow you to take a breath.
Sometime I recall my days of struggle and my heart beats and head throbs for those who are struggling at present.
At the same time I go back in the stream of consciousness like situation when used to talk to myself having no one to listen to me. When I indulged in monlouges and a silent listener would listen to my wailings and worries. I reflect upon the frustration that would overcome my mind when I recieved the feedback from people about my bad luck. When I heard people gossiping about my inability and when my neighbours exhibited their scare -crow like mercy on me. When I asked for relationship and was rejected. When I asked for daily needed things and I was denied saying that you would not return.
At present, thank God, an organisation has accepted me as a teacher, but the burns I have received on my heart while scrouging for rags , have not healed yet and seem to be healing never.
Human agency was supposed to substitute God to take the other fellow beings out of trouble, but the beastly behaviour of innocent- criminals has troubled them more.
I hope only angels are left to help this humanity out of this dark ditch that it has fallen into and seems to be never coming out...

To be continued in next article...

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Superstition and its Drastic impacts on Humanity: A Sociological Perspective
By: Mohd Ishaq Shah

A hypothesis that if someone does not follow the unscientific and illogical practices / customs. And doesn't tend to show loyalty towards the dharam gurus/ Babas/ Fakirs/ Peers etc , s/ he will face dangerous consequences like uncertain death or material loss or bad relationships etc. When one relates it with his faith / belief he is sure to suffer on account of such fraudsters and hypocrites.

Religious faith is logical in nature and has laid down the clearcut ways of living a life. No doubt there are some supernatural episodes narrated in religious scriptures that sometimes make us tend towards what seemingly doesn't seem logical or empirical. Although, there is also logic , we do not have such an experience that we can visualise such logic.

Recently ,news got viral that a fake baba from Maharashtra state of India had been sexually exploiting womenfolk of the said state and many videos in its respect have gone viral in social media and the matter has become a burning issue now. Authorities also have taken cognizance of the matter and the accused has been put behind the bars as well. Let me not expose what in reality has happened to the women who used to visit his private office.

I just recollected a short story by R.K Narayana that I happened to go through while persuing my PG in English literature. The story is titled ; An Astroger's Day , it goes like that a man goes to attend a party with his friends wherein he drinks in such quantity that he loses all his senses and stand one of his friends with a knife. After coming to senses he is apprehensive about arrest by police and hurriedly leaves for home with pale face.
His wife asks him the reason of his apprehension to which he replied that it would be no longer safe for them to live in that city/ town and they must leave the premises immediately. Alongwith his family he leaves the city and settles in another city. There he openes an astrologer's shop and starts practicing. He wears the robes and aprons making his attire totally strange.
One day the same person whom he had injured in the party and had luckily survived. The person asked him to tell him his murderer. The astrologer replies that if he remains rigid in finding out his enemy ,he would face a fatal accident. So, it is better to leave him to the mercy of God and he might have been killed in a road Accident.
The person returns back and the astrologer hurriedly closes his shop and returns home. Once again his wife asks him why he has been so worried and closed his shop so early. He narrated the whole episode to his wife and reveals before her the reality of past...

So, superstition is the most dangerous social evil that has destroyed the lives of thousands but lakhs of innocent people.
Religion is scientific in nature and logical in treatment. It never allows us to follow someone blindly. People must read scriptures of their religion and follow what has been ordained there. Only then they can spare themselves from fraudsters and looters.

https://noukeqalamnews.com/en/the-fading-art-of-shared-memory-story-telling-nostalgia/

Poem published in Nouqe Qalam
https://noukeqalamnews.com/en/far-from-the-maddening-crowda-poem/

Far From the Maddening Crowd (poem )
By: MOHD ISHAQ SHAH
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Far from the maddening crowd,
I seek a refuge in nature—beloved.
A thunderous clamor rages outside,
Yet nature’s chariot I long to ride.
It may lead me to peace and tranquility,
Where my weary soul finds calm serenity;
Where sleep descends, profound and sound,
And my spirit roams, wholly unbound.
Nature laughs haughtily at my plight,
For I fail to see, with moral sight,
My role, my duty, my grave neglect—
How I have marred the mother I should protect.
Men stand cruelly, daggers drawn,
Feigning innocence—like helpless fawn.

Till date it was just a theory for me,but today it turned as a reality when I visited the place.
This is the dam that feeds the Mohra Hydro- Electricity Power Project that is commonly known as Uri Power Project.
Its capacity is 4 MW.
It was commissioned from 1902-1905 by the Dogra ruler - Maharaja Pratap sing. It is one of the oldest power projects of Jammu and Kashmir (UT).

I see exploring the places makes us more knowledgeable than the book reading that we often forget.

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Understanding " IF" and its Application.

Rudyard Kipling - a Nobel Laureate in English Literature (1902) and commonly known as the writer of " Jungle Book" has written a poem titled as" If" which embodies a great philosophy and an insight to give this world a direction to peace and calmness.
But the matter of introspection is : Man has been given the pivotal role to bring this peace and make the world calm. The core philosophy that is hidden inside the poem is that man cannot control his impulses and becomes vibrant hence resulting in shaking the very basis of the ever needed tranquility whichever is very crucial to the peaceful world order....I would like to paste the photograph of the poem here ,but I won't take a cognizance of mutilating the originality of the text.

What constitutes the speciality of the poem is ; Every line behgins with the conditional conjunction - If . And only the last line is let free of this conditional if which ,if evaluated judicially, is salvation stage of man and spiritual atonement.....to be continued in upcoming write up.....

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