Friday, December 31, 2010

Knowledge in Tidbits

Miyan's style of discussion was to present the things in the form of anecdotes and tidbits. A sort of Reader's Digest in action. Here is one example.

There is a person who is famous in Urdu literature just because of few articles. You know whom we are talking about. He was not an Alig but fits the description, "All English Professors write poetry/stories/article in Urdu." He was ashamed that, during his foreign stay, he discussed a book with his girl friend without reading it. He confided it to her. She was very understanding. "You discussed it rather well. I shall lend you my copy, read it now, " she added. On getting her copy of the book he found that the joint pages in the beginning of the book were still joint.

This should be called higher academics.