A Rush towards Joy at QAU Islamabad

The mod­ern man dire­ly needs to avowed­ly com­mit to peace, hope, affec­tion and deter­mi­na­tion; as he has been unfor­tu­nate­ly, wed­ded to frus­tra­tion, dis­ap­point­ment, hope­less­ness and defect. Dale Carnegie expressed his life’s expe­ri­ence, “Peo­ple rarely suc­ceed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

Nation­al Insti­tute of Pak­istan Stud­ies (NIPS), Nation­al Insti­tute of Psy­chol­o­gy (NIP) and Area Stud­ies depart­ment of Quaid-i-Azam Uni­ver­si­ty, Islam­abad under­went orga­niz­ing a Fun­fair Gala here at the Uni­ver­si­ty on Novem­ber 14^th, 2012. Head of the depart­men­tal soci­eties tend­ed for tak­ing the respon­si­bil­i­ty of req­ui­site and manda­to­ry arrange­ments. Gala had been set includ­ing song ded­i­ca­tion, per­son­al­i­ty con­test, refresh­ment stalls, hand­i­crafts and gar­ments, and stalls relat­ing stud­ies.

The Gala pro­vid­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to the keen affec­tion­ate of music by their par­tic­i­pa­tion in “singing com­pe­ti­tion.” Evi­dent­ly, dozens of young par­tic­i­pants across the Uni­ver­si­ty chipped in and kept the assem­bled spec­ta­tors enter­tained with their so-called pleas­ant and fun­ny sounds except some good fel­lows who bril­liant­ly per­formed with their melody sounds.

The folk songs and cul­tur­al dances of a nation are its spir­i­tu­al self por­trait. Inter­est­ing­ly, not mere­ly the new and pop songs got the atten­tion of the audi­ence but also the folk songs of all com­mu­ni­ties, i.e. Balochi, Pash­to, Pun­jabi, Sarai­ki, Sind­hi, and Gilgit Baltistan. Indeed, this robust col­lec­tion of folk songs and cul­tur­al dances brought a great fer­vor and gus­to among all.

The gala con­tin­ued till late evening and helped the ter­ror hit peo­ple for­get­ting their mis­eries at least for some hours and enjoy.

—Writ­ten By Mudas­sar Mush­taq

(Pub­lished in The Laal­tain — Issue 6)