History , my enchanting mistress. She weaves a web around me no matter I try to escape from her . I am legally wedded to English Literature , my first love . But events or figures of history , past or modern , has a strange fascination for me : a strange awe . I have studied Indian History , English History , Islamic History (secured 130/200 in the CSS Competition) , American History (secured 70/100 in the same competition . I learnt wide portions of American History by Nevin and Commager by heart while preparing for the said Competition) and a smattering of French History . Besides Current Affairs from the first World War .I felt the same awe while visiting the Pyramids in Giza , near Cairo , and watching the Sphinx. I read about important figures of the present era viz. Stalin , Trotsky , Princess Diana . While serving in the Cabinet Division , I used to borrow volumes of Encylopedia Britannicca from the office library to browse historical events and figures in my spare time. While studing English Literature , or any Literature , Urdu , French or Russian , too, you never escape from contemporary history viz.Elizabethan or Jacobean; a description of the times . The Crusades have been a favourite subject with me particularly the exploits of the Zingis , both father and son , and Salahuddin( English Saladin ) Ayubi . The Crusaders were also important for the emergence of Templar Knights . A few years , researchers in the west , such research are always conducted in the west , found scrolls from the Templar Knights , leading to the Holy Grail .The Holy Grail has been fully explained by Dan Brown in ‘Da Vinci Code’ . To those , who are unfamilar with Christianity , ‘The Holy Grail’ was the relic of Mary Magdalene , the supposed wife of Jesus . Of course , it is against the belief of the Muslims who believe that Jesus was not married when he as lifted to heaven through Allah’s Mercy . He will return to earth towards the end of the world. Students of Journalism are taught five things where to proceed further ;where, when , what , why and how . While reading ‘Da Vinci Code’ , I made it a point to read about Leonardo Da Vinci’s life . I particularly spent a great deal of time gazing ‘The Last Supper’ intently . Shortly after finishing ‘Da Vinci Code’ , I browsed on the internet what happened in Paris that night when Princess Diana died . The more I dug deep that I felt vicariously that Princess Diana was the model for Sophie , the book’s heroine . Some pseudo intectuals write that Britain is the pet poodle of the USA. As a matter of fact , I did repeat it last evening at a friend’s house . Rather Britain occupies a prominent place as the keeper of ‘The Holy Grail’ . Having being a student of American History , I watched with interest the events as they unfolded particularly after the Second World War .The Truman Doctrine , the books written by Richard Nixon , the Carter Doctrine , the origins of the Bush’ family, ‘Obama’s War’ . Freedom of information is really practised there . There are many articles on ‘The New World Order’ on the internet particularly written by John Coleman . I am also greatly fascinated by west , particularly the USA , in as much as one can browse books to one’s heart content on the internet or get a copy of the book or a magazine through pdf which is not always the case in other parts of the world . Mahfooz ur Rahman Islamabad July 8, 2013
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:16:57 +0000
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