ABOUT JODHA AKBAR IN URDU FULL
Fortunately for me, I loved the historical accounts – tales full of intrigue, love, hate, politics, success and failure – and hence, didn’t do too badly in the subject. But that had more to do with how history was taught than the subject itself. Like I said earlier, I remember history lessons to be monotonous and tedious. Education needs to be made interesting for students without resorting to such low and inappropriate tactics.
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I have no personal vendetta against our neighbours but this just seems inappropriate considering that text books have to be (one would assume so at least) approved by the education ministry which is a government body and hence, should not (again one would assume so at least) be promoting Indian content to Pakistani students in schools. So what’s happening now? Is it suddenly okay for Pakistani history students to learn history from the ‘hated’ Indian movies?ĭon’t get me wrong.
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But on a deeper level, there are so many things wrong with the inclusion of these images and related questions in a history textbook for seventh graders.įirstly, there is the glaring issue that a parent highlighted in the comments – are we now teaching the history of Pakistan through Indian movies? We have all heard how history is skewed on both sides of the border to show their respective selves in a positive and superior light. I, for one, remember history lessons to be boring, mind-numbing and sleep-inducing so, these questions add an interesting twist, if not given much thought. Intrigued, I did some search and found another image shared by the same concerned parent from the same textbook, this time depicting an Indian film poster from 1953.Īt first glance, all of this seems harmless and even mildly hilarious. In addition to the actress’s image and mention of the movie, the book also included other seemingly irrelevant questions such as,ĭo you think Jodhaa looked like Aishwariya Rai’s depiction of her?
ABOUT JODHA AKBAR IN URDU MOVIE
The chapter seems to be about the Mughal Emperor, Jalaluddin Akbar and the image shows Aishwariya Rai who played Jodhaa (one of Akbar’s wives) in the Bollywood movie Jodhaa Akbar, released in 2008.
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This image is from a history book being taught in grade seven and eight in private schools of Karachi. When I stopped to read the status, image and accompanying text as well as the comments that followed, I was literally left dumbfounded. I was about to scroll down, thinking it was probably some ‘blown-out-of-proportion’ news about the Bollywood actress Aishwariya Rai, when I noticed the words “class seven history book” accompanying the image. Scarcely had the thought entered my head, when I saw that someone had shared this image on their page, A few days ago, I was browsing through my Facebook newsfeed and thinking how boring this particular social media website had become of late.