Lahore

Rudyard Kipling, “a superb literary craftsman” (Horton 682), is one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors. He utilized many literary styles, writing novels such as Kim, Captains Courageous, The Light That Failed, and poems such as “If” and “The White Man’s Burden.” However, he is most well known for his array of colorful children’s stories such as Just So Stories, and perhaps his most well-known piece, the Jungle Book. Possessing a deep admiration for Indian culture, Kipling penned…

Consequently, the University of Putra Malaysia found that out of 104 female students, thirty-four percent of the student population had skin complications from the products use (Rusmadi, pp1, 2015). Nevertheless, eighty-two percent of men in the city of Lahore, Punjab consider lighter-tone women more beautiful and fit to marry (Rusmadi, pp.6, 2015).…

illumination and undercover work, quietness and savagery. Kim, the stranded child of a tipsy and drunken Irish sergeant and a nursemaid mother, has been raised by an Eurasian opium eater, given free keep running of the tight boulevards and back rear ways of Lahore, and turn out to be totally acclimatized to Indian life. The rainbow coalition of indigenous instructors, who lead him to his actual character and genuine work, are progressively Europeanized; his English educators, who prepare him as…

Security briefing paper on Pakistan Introduction: Having lost the last vestiges of its secular inspiration in the bloody marshes of Bangladesh in 1971, the country the world knows as Pakistan is at present under siege from a motley armada of militant groups, trying to establish an Islamist utopia . The situation is made worse by the schizophrenic state of the country’s counter-terrorism approach, with differential treatments meted out to Afghan Taliban and Laskhkar-e- Taiba ( groups…

Chandragupta I was the first great ruler of this dynasty who ruled from 320 AD to 335 AD. He expanded the empire by conquering kingdoms of Prayag, Magadha and Nepal. He made use of matrimonial alliances to expand the empire along the Gangetic plain. Samudragupta, the son of Chandragupta I, ascended the throne of the Gupta Empire in 335 AD and ruled till 380 AD. Samudragupta was known for his military prowess and is known as the Napoleon of India. He carried out a series of military conquests…

when in reality, he is a poor boy who obtained a large wealth through illegal means. Likewise, the Reluctant Fundamentalist follows a similar part which can also be a replication of its protagonists. The novels alternates through the present day in Lahore and the past in America which could emulate how Changez was “within and without” for a long time before finally deciding to embrace his heritage and remain outside. This is demonstrated through the final chapter being set in…

Khushwant Singh (1915- ) was born in a village called Handali ( now in Pakistan). He pursued education from the Government College, Lahore followed by at King’s College, Cambridge University and at the Inner Temple in London. He initially chose to be a lawyer by profession and had practiced at the Lahore High Court for years. Later on he joined the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in 1947. He even left this job and started an illustrious career as a journalist with the All India Radio in…

I, on the other hand, experienced what happened in the streets. Just miles from the military base in Abbottabad, Pakistan children and adults were being kidnapped every day and forced into doing Bin Laden`s bidding. I lived In Lahore, Pakistan a city almost three-hundred miles away from Bin Laden and he still found a way to get his terror into my city. In fact, one of my personal experiences with terrorists was when I almost got kidnaped by them at age twelve. I was walking to…

The perception of myself is very subjective, it is never concrete, but rather develops as my experiences and biases change. The one book I have read explore the concept of the loss of an identity. Set pre to post 9/11, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid explores, the engaging narrative of Changez, who is a Pakistani living in the terrorism altered America. He recounts his life story to the reader, who is presumed to be an American agent or a business man. On the other hand, Schindler’s…

check in on their social media applications in order to let people know that they were alright. These people were confused, however, as none of them seemed to be near a disaster, much less the one inquired after: a bombing in Gulshan-i-iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan on Easter Sunday. This alert being sent out was a widely-publicized feature added in to Facebook, one of the most popular social networking websites and applications, used all over the world. The goal was certainly to allow victims…