Young World

I have been reading Young World since the last two years and found it to be a really amazing magazine for kids. It carries so many interesting things, such as jokes, recipes, stories, articles and crafts.

All these articles are always nice and help polish one’s personality in different ways. However, I would like to suggest to the Young World team to give more space to reading stuff and reduce the number of advertisements.

Eman Nasir Malik,

Karachi

Copy culture

The world is developing so fast that scientists and researchers from around the world are searching for life on other planets, but unfortunately, we are still searching for new ways and tricks to copy and cheat in exams.

It is really sad and regretful. People around the world use technology for advancement, while kids here are using various apps to cheat easily in exams.

It is my request to students to stop cheating and to study, and my plea to the authorities to end this nuisance from our educational institutions so that we can also flourish.

Karan Goswami,

Tando Jam

Embrace Urdu

Nearly all Pakistanis mistakenly declare English as the divisional line between ignorance and intelligence without realising that neither requires a linguistic medium. To most of us, English and intelligence are interlinked.

Most people, after continual failures, give up hope and instead of accepting English as just a language, get disheartened and try to run away from it. In this manner so many people with great talent are wasted as they do not utilise their full potential.

How can we sideline our own language while embracing a foreign language? While it is no sin to know English, how can we prefer it over Urdu? English should remain as a second language.

Did Einstein speak German or did he speak some other language? The English themselves only advanced when they left Latin and worked on their own language. Did the great Muslim scientists speak Greek or Latin?

All of us know that later this summer we will be celebrating Pakistan’s 70th birthday, but ask yourself, “Have we truly decolonised our minds in these 70 years? Why are we still bound by shackles of Anglisation?”

Urdu is our identity and it will forever be. Instead of running from it, we should own our language.

Muhammad Saad Asad,

Mirpur, Azad Kashmir

Power outage and load-shedding

The world is advancing in every field but, unfortunate, Pakistanis are crying for basic necessities of life which include, electricity and water. All the promises and oaths of the concerned authorities for providing the country with electricity have gone in vain. We hardly have electricity for 10 hours each day. The rest of the time goes by in an agonising wait in this hot month of June. People are fasting also, but no one cares.

No matter how much people protest it seems that the authorities have gone deaf and dumb. It is my request to the concerned authorities, the PM and Sepco to look into this grave matter and have pity on the people — it is your duty to facilitate us with the basic necessities of life.

Salman Khan Soomro,

Larkana

Published in Dawn, Young World June 10th, 2017