Social Policy-Reflection

When I heard about the course ‘social policy’ I was really intrigued. This course had a very vague name and it was kind of hard to really pin point what exactly the learning objectives of this course would be.

It started off with a speaking session. It was a bit different, because usually when we start class we start with introducing ourselves, life’s aim and such other information, but here we started professionally. We had to give an overview of Karachi and that in itself seemed to be a complex assignment because Karachi is so vast and intricate. It has many different lives and many different aspects.

We all had to give our opinions and speak extempore. I still wrote my points on a piece of paper. In my opinion Karachi is a metropolitan city with different caste’s and different sections of social structures hitherto existing in the world. They all co exist albeit peacefully or non peacefully. We see that a city so vast is being governed by emotions rather than by logic and reasoning. I believe if we over come our discriminations we can have a city parallel to any in the world existing today and tomorrow to come.

And every man seems to take the law in his hands. And one thing that I agree with was Tehreem’s opening statement that ‘to judge a city one must judge its traffic’. In my opinion a lot of us became negative. We had a comparison of not only India and Pakistan but we also compared Bangladesh with them. This was interesting because teachers tend to usually forget or not discuss this important country also previously a part of the subcontinent.  We also discussed Jinnah who is incidentally my ideal personality. I hope to try and do some good just as he has in this world. The book sir recommended to us was one I was already planning to read. I have it with me in fact, But I have also read Stanley Wolpert’s accounts of the Partition. I hope I remember some of my knowledge.

All in all, this class was interesting. It got off a nice start. I hope I can do well, and learn something in this course. I also wish to be able to contribute something positive.


Mahin Khalid Siddiqui
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