I khizra javaid, am a psychology major. So when I was told I would have to take sp as a compulsory course it sort of made me angry. Why? Because I wanted to health psychology or organisational or even child psychology, but Social Policy, really?
Then came our first class after two weeks of anticipation. Sir Maskwaith turned out to be as unusual as his name. He started off with us not introducing ourselves, but with us talking extempore about what our perception of karachi society was like. It was fun listening to everyone give opinions. Some were funny! Like Nageen Pervez, she tried to find positive things in karachi. Shows she is a loyal karachiite but really these days there isn't much to be happy about in our gorgeous city of lights! Then I totally agreed when some people said there's greed corruption and lawlessness. We need to accept our flaws before correcting them! No point in hidind our head in the sand.
I personally think everything has a good and bad. So does Karachi. We have good loyal population, even if our rulers are nepotistic, corrupted and greedy. So I don't agree with anyone who says karachi has no hope. Its educated youth will become its hope.
After that we started a discussion on the subcontinent before all partitions. It was interesting as to how people compared pakistan, india and bangladesh. The part that really got me thinking was when sir drew a travel line bw the three countries. It got me thinking that yes, if we had no barriers we could make our relations much more friendly than neutral and hostile.
I am more of an observer and listener than I am a speaker. So I didn't contribute much. But it was fun as to how the class progressed.
Social policy turned out to be a really good surprise! I had another lesson learnt in not judging a book by its cover!
Khizra Javaid
Then came our first class after two weeks of anticipation. Sir Maskwaith turned out to be as unusual as his name. He started off with us not introducing ourselves, but with us talking extempore about what our perception of karachi society was like. It was fun listening to everyone give opinions. Some were funny! Like Nageen Pervez, she tried to find positive things in karachi. Shows she is a loyal karachiite but really these days there isn't much to be happy about in our gorgeous city of lights! Then I totally agreed when some people said there's greed corruption and lawlessness. We need to accept our flaws before correcting them! No point in hidind our head in the sand.
I personally think everything has a good and bad. So does Karachi. We have good loyal population, even if our rulers are nepotistic, corrupted and greedy. So I don't agree with anyone who says karachi has no hope. Its educated youth will become its hope.
After that we started a discussion on the subcontinent before all partitions. It was interesting as to how people compared pakistan, india and bangladesh. The part that really got me thinking was when sir drew a travel line bw the three countries. It got me thinking that yes, if we had no barriers we could make our relations much more friendly than neutral and hostile.
I am more of an observer and listener than I am a speaker. So I didn't contribute much. But it was fun as to how the class progressed.
Social policy turned out to be a really good surprise! I had another lesson learnt in not judging a book by its cover!
Khizra Javaid
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