RE: اردو - میری پیاری زبان / Urdu - My Beautiful Language
What I don't like is that being multi-lingual sometimes makes you proficient in none (at least in my case).
You have a point and a very valid one.
I also blame our education system for the fact that our current generation is neither proficient in urdu nor in English. There are so many factors at play. It's not only the system, but the thinking that is deeply embedded in our minds that good English is equivalent to good education. (Not in your case, you have good English and excellent education - I'm your fan in this regard)
. I won't tell you to use laptop again because you seem to have great thumbs. Mine don't handle the pressure of Steemit Editor.
Please keep reminding me from time to time. I use laptop for 90% of the posts. Specially the challenges and which require extensive searching and sourcing.
About this one, well I couldn't let the inspiration slide away. So, I just sat up and wrote (while still in bed 😉).
My taste in music is weirder. Sufi qalam, NFK, Pathany Khan (ever heard of him?), Farida Khanum, Iqbal Bano ....coke studio...
An entirely different tangent of English music from Avril Lavigne, Sia, Lady Gaga,Maroon 5, Shakira Michael Jackson, ......
And then these filmy songs from Bollywood. I think I know most of 90s songs from Bollywood and then from earlier Kishore Kumar and Muhammad Rafi, Lata.
If someone asks about my taste in music, I just look at him like a lost 🐒...
But I think, I enjoy mostly those filmy songs from 90s specially composed by A R Rehman.
This mindset needs to change.
I will tell you an incident. Once I was at an airport in a foreign country. There were groups of Indonesians, Turkish, Arabs. They were all talking in their own language. Then I heard English and before even looking at the group, in my heart I knew there were Pakistanis and Indians ahead. Sad part is, it wasn't their accent that gave them away...
I sat with them (because they were all heading back to Pakistan on the same flight as mine). I observed my people as a third person for the first time. I didn't like what I saw. I couldn't see a culture that I saw few minutes ago in other groups.
I reflected a lot that day. I knew we had shortcomings as a nation but that day I actually started making an effort to not look like that group at the airport.
P.S. A R Rehman is an absolute favourtie.
Whenever I listen to this 👇 song it reminds me of you and your school runs. It's a vibe. 😀
Hira, you have won my heart for this dedication.
Just ask for anything...
I can bake a pizza for you and more 🤣😘😘😘
A pizza will do it. 🤣