جناب میر علی محمد شادؔ مرحوم عظیم آبادی
ابھی نثر اردو کے ماتم سے ہم فارغ نہیں ہوئے تھے کہ نظم اردو کے پرانے استاد عظیم آباد کے مشہور باکمال شاعر میر علی محمد شاد کی موت کی خبر آئی، ۸؍ جنوری ۱۹۲۷ء کو غالباً ۸۲ برس کی عمر میں اپنے وطن عظیم آباد پٹنہ میں وفات پائی، ساٹھ برس سے زیادہ کی مشق سخن تھی، لاکھوں شعر ان کے نتائج فکر ہیں، میرؔ اور انیسؔ کے مقلد اور متبع تھے، اس دور میں وہ یورپ میں زبان اردو کے تنہا استاد رہ گئے تھے، ہموطنی کے باوجود کبھی ان کی ملاقات کا شرف حاصل نہ ہوسکا، البتہ تحریری نیاز ایک مدت سے جاری تھا، کچھ دنوں سے ہوش و حواس بھی بجانہ تھے، تاہم شعر برابر وردِ زبان تھا:
آخر ہے عمر ، ضیق میں ، دل بھی ہے جان بھی
مردانہ باش! ختم ہے یہ امتحان بھی!!
مرحوم کی تصنیفات میں دیوان اور کلام منظوم کے علاوہ نوائے وطن وغیرہ نثر کی کتابیں بھی ہیں، مرحوم کا ایک طویل والا نامہ بھی میرے پاس رکھا ہے، جس میں اپنی تصنیفات کی پوری کیفیت لکھی ہے، افسوس کہ ان کا پورا کلام کوششوں کے باوجود بھی یک جاہوکر طبع نہ ہوسکا، جو کام کہ ان کی غایت احتیاط کی بناء پر ان کی زندگی میں نہ ہوسکا، شاید اب ان کے مرنے کے بعد انجام کو پہنچ جائے، اپنے طرز کے وہ تنہا مالک تھے اور زمانہ کا رنگ دیکھ کر توقع نہیں کہ اس طرز کا سخن ور پھر پیدا ہوسکے۔
(سید سليمان ندوی، جنوری ۱۹۲۷ء)
This study combines three orientations, namely existential thought about the meaning of ‘being’ and ‘existence, ’ phenomenological insights into ‘lived experience, ’ and anthropological endeavor at what it means to be human. It attempts to focus on the human conditions by directly engaging with human beings. Specifically guiding itself with the questions such as how young people engage in the meaning-making of their lived experiences in their life course’s ever-changing process. Taking its theoretical insights and inspiration from existential and phenomenological anthropology, by zooming in on lived experiences, the research was conducted using life story interviews to collect the narratives to gain understandings into the life-worlds as it is lived and made sense of by young people of Tando Ghulam Ali, a rural town of District Badin, Sindh. Based on the ethnographic data and observations, it is argued that the meaning-making of lived experiences was different among research participants with a strong presence of selfhood and self-consciousness temporally and affectively; the difference in orientation towards life is entangled with personal history as well. This research went beyond the horizons of culture and society to put existence, life, and being, which are silhouetted at meta-level, at the heart of anthropological focus. This research is an experimental research project in anthropology, which has attempted to step its foot into the human condition's terra incognita, which calls for anthropologists’ further exploration.
This study was undertaken to know about the locus of motivation and achievement of the university
level students and to find out inter-relationship of male and female students. In order to collect data
one questionnaire was used which was developed and tested by Dr. Russell F. Waugh, Edith Cowan
University, Australia, with his permission to gather data for motivation and achievement. Its validity
was confirmed by the group of experts and reliability was calculated through Cronbach Alpha on 100
students not included in the sample. The value of Cronbach Alpha comes out as 0.78. Then results of
different students were collected to analyse the data to compare male and female students with their
responses. The questionnaire had three main aspects of motivation, linked with two response sets
(What I aim for and What I actually do), and an ordered set of subject response categories (none or only
one of my subjects, in some, though not most of my subjects, in most, though not all, of my subjects, in all
or nearly all of my subjects).
Only seven universities were included in the sample which were willing to participate. Pearson Product
moment correlation and t-test were used for analysis of the data. It was concluded that the majority of
the university level students had the highest motivation level. It is also interesting fact that gender
difference was found in the motivation level of male and female students. Data collected through
questionnaire from 1267 students was analyzed and tabulated. Three different departments (computer
science, management department and social science departments) were chosen to collect data from male
and female students.
It was also concluded that there was positive correlation between motivation and academic
achievement of the university level student and motivation and achievement level of male and female
students was higher than that of female students. Another interesting fact was that from all these three
aspects constituting the locus of motivation i.e. striving for excellence, desire to learn and personal
incentives, the predominant aspect was personal incentives.