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Essay On A Cricket Match

Essay On A Cricket Match.

Last winter I happened to see a cricket match in Lahore. The match was played between Pakistan cricket team and the West Indies cricket team. The match was played at Qadaffi Stadium Lahore.
Cricket is quite an interesting game. Every game has its plus points. It fosters discipline, duty, team spirit, cooperation and a sportsman's spirit. Some of the Pakistani players are players of international repute.
Cricket is played between two teams of 11 members each. It is played on a flat, smooth and clean ground. Cricket requires, two sets of stumps, wickets and a ball.

The distance between two sets of wickets is 22 yards. The bowlers take their turns after every six balls. In this game. much depends upon the quality of bowling. Good fielding is also necessary for victory. Before the game starts, there is the toss. It is the whim of the toss winning captain to first go for batting or fielding. The fielding party puts three fieldsmen on the one side, six on the off side, while one is posted for guarding the wicket and one for the bowling. The game is generally played for six hours a day. The umpire is the final judge. He is the man who declares the players out whether they are run out, bowled out, caught out, stumped out or leg-before-wicket.

The match which I witnessed was really very interesting. 'There was huge gathering at Qadaffi Satdium Lahore. Pakistan's leading cricketers were playing in the match. I saw the fine game of Saeed Anwar. He hit many boundaries, while Amir Sohail was very careful not to make a single stroke. But soon Saeed Anwar was out. Then he was replaced by Shahid Afridi. He made 50 runs in 76 minutes whole Amir made 66 runs in 70 minutes. Soon there was break for lunch. The Pakistani team made 219 runs for three wickets before lunch.

Then the West Indies players started batting after lunch. B. Lara played very fast and he hit to sixers. Soon he was out. Then Roger came and hit three sixers. There was a tremendous cheer from the spectators. There was great excitement among the spectators as well as players. Everyone was in high spirits. Roger Binny played lipto the end and he scored over a century. Then the umpire gave a long whistle and the match ended for the day.



The spectators dispersed. Some of the cricket fans were patting Roger Binny for his brilliant performance. Soon the crowd fizzled out and I came to my house. It was a thrilling match for me.
Essay On A Righteous Man Regardeth The Life Of His Beast.In England the cruel treatment of animals is a crime punishable by law and there is a "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals- which does good work in bringing brutes who maltreat dumb creatures to justice. The Bible says, "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast", thus making kindness and justice to domestic animals an essential part of human virtue. Those animals, such as the horse, dog, donkey and mule, which men have bred and trained for their own use have a special claim on our mercy and justice; the more so as they are dumb and helpless in our hands, and cannot plead their own cause.

The man who starves his horse, beats bis dog, or unmercifully overloads his ass, is a brute and a bully. He is also a fool; for even a selfish slave-owner knows that it is to his own advantage to have slaves well-fed and well cared for. And yet when we think of what many of these dumb creatures suffer at the hands of men, it is enough to make angels weep. As the poet Blake said:--

A captive Redbreast in a cage Sets all Heaven in a rage."

A great deal of cruelty to animals is due simply to thoughtlessness and lack of imagination. People do not always mean to be cruel; they just do not think. How many happy wild birds are caught and kept in small cages to please us with their songs! People think nothing of it, and imagine that if they keep the bird well-fed and its cage clean, it will be quite happy. But how can a wild think which has been used to flying in the sky in boundless liberty, ever be happy cooped up in a narrow space? Its songs should fill us with remorse rather than give us any pleasure.

We cannot excuse our cruelty on the ground of thoughtlessness. It is our duty to think; and no one who cannot enter into the feelings of an animal and sympathize with it in its weakness and helplessness, should be allowed to own one.



One cannot here discuss the question of killing animals for food. But if men must have meat to eat, it is their duty to see that such animals are killed painlessly. It makes one shudder to think what tortures sheep and oxen have to undergo at the hands of brutal men in unregulated slaughter-houses.
Man is a pleasure loving animal. He wants diversity of enjoyments. His intelligence has certainly enabled to get a much greater variety of enjoyment that is open to animals. Music. poetry and science, football and baseball and alcohol and cigarettes are some from which people of different temperaments and mental make-up derive pleasure. There are still others who undertake hazardous journeys on the uncharted ocean.

Some of foolishly expose themselves to frost-bite and other inclemencies of weather simply to be called conquerors of snowy peaks but the thrill-which these practical men get fails to stir their soul. Even if they simply profess, it transports them to some ethereal pleasure, no sensible person who experienced the vast range of vicarious pleasures would believe them.

In fact he who knows how to build castles in the airknow what the secret of perennial pleasure is, and which never gives one a feeling of satiety or frustration Much has been said in praise of the warriors who by their barbarian exploits conquered their so-called invincible enemies. But is it not a fact that these conquerors could never lead a life free from the fear of being over-run by some braver and more crafty warrior or soldier.

And this imaginary' fear drove them from one inhuman act to another? Did not Aurangzeb subject his father and brothers to most inhuman treatment simply to become the unchallenged emperor of India? Also they had cared to know how unconquerable is the person who handles sword in his dreamland where no blood issued and where forces fall as easily a butterflies in a young boy's net.

Had they been contended with such conquests they might have not got a few pages in history read by bespectacled scholars, they would have, at least, remained unchallengeable masters of their domains. After all what does it matter to a person whether people talk well or bad of him after he is dead Then why expose ourselves to the smoky hazardous battle-field? Is not our unconquerable fort which is not to be defended by death dealing weapons better, it is in this world that intrigues find little head way.

No doubt achievements give us a sense of fulfillment and a feeling of joy. But this joy is seldom or never in proportion to our efforts. Naturally all our plans and the pains taken in executing them head to insignificant pleasure, Not only that, This pleasure is not lasting. It is bound to result in frustration if success in one achievement is not followed by another. A part from that we may think that we have done something remarkable but others might not.

This will prick the bubble of our pride and pleasure; the appreciation is whole hearted it might be only of section of people whose opinions we value the least, Then the fear of not being up to the mark also dissipate the pleasure we are likely to get from doing something concrete. And the period preceding our success is a period of great tension. In fact what we do by building casdes on the earth is not to please overselves but to please others.

We work as salves and not as masters of our souls. If still some think that there is no pleaSure in idle dreams let them think so, It is a matter of opinion, and if we claim to be civilize we should not grudge them
the right to entertain worn ideas. Above all pleasure is completely a personal affair. When it becomes a community affair, as the pleasure from concrete achievement is, we may call it anything else, but to call it pleasure would be misnomer.

Nevertheless they who are earthy are contemptuous of day dreamers. The who 'late and soon getting and spending law waste their powers and little see in nature that is ours are prone to have such feelings for those who make plans and entertain hopes that can never be realised. But is the dreams of such dreams to whom we owe much of colour and joy in the world. They make our drab )world permeate with whose who make life worth living.

They wipe tears off every eye. They are the angles who do not fear to tread or even to rush, whatever the attitude of the down-to-the dearth people may be. It is a fact that in all ages such dreamers have been dubbed cranks. Nevertheless, it is the cranks of one age who dream of a world different from the one in which they lived that mankind have, though at a slow pace, become different from what other species are. The discontent of such dreamers with the present make them to visualise a world where mankind would enjoy the 'sweetness and light' they unconsciously had been instruments.

Day dreamers have super-human power of withdrawing themselves from the tedium of boring routine. They by virtue of sanguine optimism have the capacity to neutralize the blind darkness of the realist. The hopes they entertain never meet with frustration, and they with unheated zeal go ahead from one pleasure to another. This pleasure is rather unknown to those who cannot abandon themselves completely.



An egoist who is ambitious to become supreme lord of a cherished domain cannot known this pleasure. Only the meet enter this kingdom. Obviously of all sorts of material gains which yelled nothing but disappointment, with a pipe in his mouth and a vacant glance in its eyes our dreamer is transported to that region where hatred ignoble reclaims give rise to love, humanism, broad mindedness and internationalism. And the picture of the world that emerges from such thinking is a thrilling and colourful pictures as are seen through a kaleidescope by a boy.

Essay On Women Place in Society


Essay On Women Place in Society 

Many women are greatly disturbed by their lot as women i h this changing world. They are becoming painfully conscious of the fact that there is something basically wrong with woman's place illthe modern world. The English suffragettes claimed that they had broken the panes of the kitchen and emancipated women. But the question is, are women really emancipated?. Is the place of workwomen in society today basically different from that of women of past centuries?.

We find career women everywhere. We find professional women amidst us. There are women doctors, women lawyers, women teachers. women engineers, women business executives. Women compete with men in every segment of human life. Going a step further, women have equal rights with men. They have voting rights as well. Women have ventured into fields where many men dare not travel. A Russian woman astronaut has successfully orbited outer space. All these we accept taking all for granted.

Although \ \ omen have made great progress in education and have contributed their service in different fields of life, the contention is that the basic attitude of society towards women has not changed radically so that women are not able to play their proper role to the fullest measure in society. We often hear of women complaining of the dullness and loneliness of staying at home and looking after children. Many a married woman has to give up her career after marriage. Nowadays we hear people talking of kitchen education for women. It means education in domestic science.

Is domestic science a refined term for kitchen education? There are educationists who talk of giving girls an education different from that of boys. I begin to doubt seriously whether women are as emancipated as they claim to be. Many women deliberately deceive themselves by thinking they are free and enjoy equal rights with men. The word -emancipation" becomes meaningful only if we care to ask "From what do women want to be emancipated?

The emancipation of women, to my mind, should be from men, and from old ideas and traditional views on their role in society. Only when women succeed in freeing themselves from these force will they find their proper place in the world.

Nowadays it is fashionable for men to talk eloquently about freedom and equality for women. This is insincere talk. Ask any man to remain at home, cook, wash dishes, scrub the floor, and do a
dozen other everyday chores. At once they retort, This is not a man's job -- it is the work of women". Straight-away they imprison women, 'Your place is in the home; my place is outside, they claim, They emphasize the biological role of workmen to bear and feed children. Men, without any exception, treat women as the weaker sex'. There is a complete identity in the attitudes of men and society towards women's place and role in the community.

It is true that the biological role of women is to bear children' but with the progress of science, children could be fed out of milk bottles. So the question of feeding the children is solved. Even then if women elect to spend as much of their time outside as men, the outraged voices of men will shout women back into their homes again. By feeding the children out of the bottle the biological limitation on women's activity outside home can be partly overcome.

Not content with that, people raise the question of children losing maternal love. It confounds me why children should have twenty four hours of maternal love and barely four hours of paternal love. Why not the other way, or for a change, why not equal hours of maternal and paternal love?

The charge that women are the weaker sex is not generally true. Strength and courage are partly qualities of the mind, and women have proved that they have these qualities in abundance. In the remote past women were as strong and as brave as men and they ranged along side men in the forests and countryside engaged in hunting the animals in the forest.

Women are deliberately suppressed by men in their present position in society. They are forced all the time narrow confines of their homes. Public opinion is much against women spending most of their time outside their homes. Women, in my opinion, have not yet achieved their emancipation.

In the modern world, with opportunities for higher education, women have a dual role to play; one inside the home, and the other in the community in which they live. According to Dr. Barbara Castle, women should try to take a keen interest in, and play in active role in, life outside their home so as to avoid the drudgery, loneliness and disillusion that may set in the latter part of their married life when their children are grown up and leave them to live on their own. the opportunity de Beaviour. a world leading feminist writer, states that in this changing world there should be a new era of partnership between men and women - a partnership in which both are protectors and home builders together. It is out of tune with the trend of time to give women only the job of nest building and home keeping. The attitude of men that "Always I shall bring the bacon and you shall do the cooking " should undergo a revolutionary chan3e. The changed outlook should be " Let us both being the bacon and let us both do the cooking.

Only when men and society at large accept this view, can the emancipation of women become a reality. Society should begin to think of women first as human beings, and then only as women. Women should be given the opportunity and freedom to spend a few hours away from the home, to engage themselves in some kind of work in the community so as to keep away the feeling of frustration and loneliness that may arise if they remain within the walls of the home all the time.

Humanity will achieve its highest and noblest ideas only if men cease to treat women as their property and regard


them as equals.

Essay On Women Place In The Modern World


Essay On Women Place In The Modern World

Many women are greatly disturbed by their lot as women i h this changing world. They are becoming painfully conscious of the fact that there is something basically wrong with woman's place illthe modern world. The English suffragettes claimed that they had broken the panes of the kitchen and emancipated women. But the question is, are women really emancipated?. Is the place of workwomen in society today basically different from that of women of past centuries?.

We find career women everywhere. We find professional women amidst us. There are women doctors, women lawyers, women teachers. women engineers, women business executives. Women compete with men in every segment of human life. Going a step further, women have equal rights with men. They have voting rights as well. Women have ventured into fields where many men dare not travel. A Russian woman astronaut has successfully orbited outer space. All these we accept taking all for granted.

Although \ \ omen have made great progress in education and have contributed their service in different fields of life, the contention is that the basic attitude of society towards women has not changed radically so that women are not able to play their proper role to the fullest measure in society. We often hear of women complaining of the dullness and loneliness of staying at home and looking after children. Many a married woman has to give up her career after marriage. Nowadays we hear people talking of kitchen education for women. It means education in domestic science.

Is domestic science a refined term for kitchen education? There are educationists who talk of giving girls an education different from that of boys. I begin to doubt seriously whether women are as emancipated as they claim to be. Many women deliberately deceive themselves by thinking they are free and enjoy equal rights with men. The word -emancipation" becomes meaningful only if we care to ask "From what do women want to be emancipated?

The emancipation of women, to my mind, should be from men, and from old ideas and traditional views on their role in society. Only when women succeed in freeing themselves from these force will they find their proper place in the world.

Nowadays it is fashionable for men to talk eloquently about freedom and equality for women. This is insincere talk. Ask any man to remain at home, cook, wash dishes, scrub the floor, and do a
dozen other everyday chores. At once they retort, This is not a man's job -- it is the work of women". Straight-away they imprison women, 'Your place is in the home; my place is outside, they claim, They emphasize the biological role of workmen to bear and feed children. Men, without any exception, treat women as the weaker sex'. There is a complete identity in the attitudes of men and society towards women's place and role in the community.

It is true that the biological role of women is to bear children' but with the progress of science, children could be fed out of milk bottles. So the question of feeding the children is solved. Even then if women elect to spend as much of their time outside as men, the outraged voices of men will shout women back into their homes again. By feeding the children out of the bottle the biological limitation on women's activity outside home can be partly overcome.

Not content with that, people raise the question of children losing maternal love. It confounds me why children should have twenty four hours of maternal love and barely four hours of paternal love. Why not the other way, or for a change, why not equal hours of maternal and paternal love?

The charge that women are the weaker sex is not generally true. Strength and courage are partly qualities of the mind, and women have proved that they have these qualities in abundance. In the remote past women were as strong and as brave as men and they ranged along side men in the forests and countryside engaged in hunting the animals in the forest.

Women are deliberately suppressed by men in their present position in society. They are forced all the time narrow confines of their homes. Public opinion is much against women spending most of their time outside their homes. Women, in my opinion, have not yet achieved their emancipation.

In the modern world, with opportunities for higher education, women have a dual role to play; one inside the home, and the other in the community in which they live. According to Dr. Barbara Castle, women should try to take a keen interest in, and play in active role in, life outside their home so as to avoid the drudgery, loneliness and disillusion that may set in the latter part of their married life when their children are grown up and leave them to live on their own. the opportunity de Beaviour. a world leading feminist writer, states that in this changing world there should be a new era of partnership between men and women - a partnership in which both are protectors and home builders together. It is out of tune with the trend of time to give women only the job of nest building and home keeping. The attitude of men that "Always I shall bring the bacon and you shall do the cooking " should undergo a revolutionary chan3e. The changed outlook should be " Let us both being the bacon and let us both do the cooking.

Only when men and society at large accept this view, can the emancipation of women become a reality. Society should begin to think of women first as human beings, and then only as women. Women should be given the opportunity and freedom to spend a few hours away from the home, to engage themselves in some kind of work in the community so as to keep away the feeling of frustration and loneliness that may arise if they remain within the walls of the home all the time.

Humanity will achieve its highest and noblest ideas only if men cease to treat women as their property and regard


them as equals.

Horrors Of Modern Wars Essay On Wars

Essay On Horrors Of Modern Wars.

Man is a fighting animal. Perhaps man's very first invention was a simple weapon like a stone tied to a stick. In the Middle Ages more and more deadly methods of killing were invented. Man invented guns for killing his enemy up to a distance of many miles. These weapons appear almost harmless when compared to the Atom and Hydrogen bombs of today. These bombs can destroy big cities in the twinkling of an eye.

The atom bomb thrown on the city of Hiroshima (Japan) in 1945 turned it into ruins; flames rose up to5,000 feet and 80,000 people were killed in a few minutes time. Even today an armament race is going on between different power blocs and the shadows of a new world war are always hovering over the world.

Wars destroy not only innumerable lives and property but also morals. traditions. culture and civilization of mankind. In olden days one man fought against the other, and it was always the stronger one who won the fight. Today individual bravery is not a deciding factor. Even a small sized man may go up in an aeroplane and destroy a city of the bravest men. He can hit the enemy from a distance of hundreds of miles with the help of rockets. There is war on land, war on sea and war in the air.

Every city becomes a target of bombardment. Tanks and mechanized units cause death and destruction on land. Civil populations, suffer heavy losses, while soldiers fight for months in the trenches, without even the bare necessities of life. During the First World War there was food shortage in England, and at a later stage, also in Germany. In war times civil population too has to make big sacrifices.

All their savings go to the war and their economic progress is stopped. because there is a constant danger of air-raids. In the Sino-Japanese war, that ended in 1949, thousands of Chinese were killed by Jap. bombs, and many beautiful cities were destroyed. Again, the ruthless warfare practised by Germans in the last war resulted in the sinking of thousands of merchant and passenger ships.

In wars, thousands of soldiers fighting on the ,front are arrested. These prisoners of war are handled in the most cruel way. Submarines, destroyers and battleships are employed for destructive purposes on the sea. The aerial warfare is still more destructive. Bombs are dropped from the air, and in a short time railway lines, industrial centres, places of worship, and huge buildings are reduced to ashes. The attack of enemy bombers and fighters is followed by the hoot of sirens and the roar of aircraft guns. People rush into underground air-raid shelters and face great difficulties.

Modern warfare is a deliberate mass murder because the enemy aims at killir.g as many people as possible. The after-effects of wars prove still more deadly. Wars also have a very bad effect on the economy of the country. Hunger, disease and misery follow every war. Crops are destroyed and the next generation is ill-fed and diseased. The poisonous gases of bombs cause strange diseases.

As the finest youth of the nation die in the war, the next generation is bred and 'brought up by crippled and sickly people. These after¬effects of wars are very dangerous. Thus, wars give mankind nothing but widows, taxes, wooden legs and debts. Civilization begins a-new after every war and all the achievements of peace are lost in a short time.