Date of Birth and Date of Death Various Poets and Writers / Authors/ Novelists

 

M.A. English

Jeffery Chaucer:

English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

John Milton:

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

Pope:

English poet and satirist (1688-1744)

John Donne:

English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)

Sophocles:

One of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC)

Marlowe:

English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)

William Shakespeare:

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

Francis Bacon:

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

J. Swift:

An English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)

Russell:

English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)

Plato:

Ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)

Aristotle:

One of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)

William Wordsworth:

A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

Matthew Arnold:

English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

T S Eliot:

British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel Prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)

Dickens:

English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

 George Eliot:

British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)

Hardy:

English novelist and poet (1840-1928)

United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)

John Keats:

Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821)

Percy Bysshe Shelley:

 Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)

William Blake:

Visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

Robert Browning:

English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

Alfred Tennyson:

Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

Robert Frost:

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Sylvia Plath:

United States writer and poet (1932-1963)

Arthur Miller:

United States playwright (1915-2005)

Tony Morrison:

United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931)

Jacques Derrida:

 French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004)

Karl Marx

Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

Adam Smith:

Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)

John Locke:

English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)

Immanuel Kant:

Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)

Friedrich Engels:

Socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895)

Adolf Hitler:

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)

Nikolai Lenin:

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR    (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (1870-1924)  (A former communist country in eastern Europe  and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991) 

Joseph Stalin:

Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)

Henrike Ibsen:

Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)

George Bernard Shaw: 

British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

Harold Pinter:

English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)

Samuel Beckett:

A playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theatre of the absurd (1906-1989)

William Butler Yeats:

 Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)

Ted Hughes:

English poet (born in 1930)

Albert Camus:

French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)

Hermann Hesse:

Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962)

Ivan Turgenev: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883)

Joseph Conrad:  Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)

Virginia Woolf: Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf

English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)

Arthur Conan Doyle:

British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien:

British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)

 

Promise of love with love A romantic song translated by Zulqurnain

 

Promise of love with love Now we will not be separated. God is listening to my heartbeat You don't know how much my heart is. Both of them, wherever I am, it seems to you Even if you call it vagrancy Call it madness The heart said, the heart heard The heart has chosen you dear Now there are no distances between, what color brought loyalty? Look, you think so, I got the destination address Now we have to walk together, my way connected with you I have taken this oath, may you be born again  I have prostrated myself in the evening and in the morning, I have always asked you Promise of love with love

Now we will not be separated.

Mobile Phone

Mobile phone is comparatively a new addition to the already present gadgets for communication life telephone, telegraph, wireless, etc. But in a short span of time, it has become an indispensable commodity throughout the world. Like other countries of the world. Like other countries of the world, it is getting popular in Pakistan day by day. Now more and more Pakistanis are using mobile phones. With the sheer rise of competition among the cellular companies, the service rates are falling down day by day and it is being predicated that by 2009, the number of subscribers will be five millions in the Pakistan. At present, four companies namely Mobilink, Insta, Paktel, Warid, Telenor and U-fone are in the race with some new companies are in the offing. Latest, models of mobile phones in different sizes and colours and with ever-increasing functions and facilities arrives in the market day in a day out. No doubt, present age may be called the model age.

Mobile phone has countless advantages:

First it is easy to carry it anywhere in palm, picket and purse. Secondly it helps in the maintenance of one’s privacy. One can go to some comer or sale place to attend the incoming call or to ring up someone else. Thirdly in keeps man in touch with the world round the clock. Fourthly it is very helpful during the journey and emergency. In such situations, it minimizes worry and saves one from untoward trouble. Fifthly it is helpful in trade, business and commerce. Above all the provision of certain functions and services like time-clock, stop-watch, calculator, composer, video camera, games, reminder, dictionary, internet facility, music, message facility, etc on it have made it real blessing.

            Mobile phone has also some harm on account of its wrong use. Sometimes it brings about accidents when the driver is busy in attending or sending a call and it’s doing so, his attention is diverted from the road. Then, mobile phone is used by criminals in committing evil acts of robbery, dacoity, kidnapping, hijacking, terrorism, etc. Besides, mobile phone proves a nuisance in places like mosqaues, silence zones, class-rooms meeting-rooms and libraries when its loud bells disturb the peaceful atmosphere. Then, mobile phone said to be a source of causing heart and other diseases and the heart patients are warned to make it careful use. In the present age of fast communication, mobile has totally become indispensable. Its proper and wise use is no less than a blessing for us. Its ever-improving services are attracting and forcing people to buy it. No doubt, mobile phone and its services are expensive in country. But it is hoped that with the rising competition among the present mobile companies and with the arrivals of the new ones, it will become cheap and affordable for everyone. The government should set up mobile manufacturing unites in the country to prove low-cost but durable and latest mobile sets. It should also try to assure low-rate but better mobile service in the country.  

Uses and abuses of internet

In the fast growing world of communication, internet is comparatively a new entrant, but it has brought about a great revolution in the field of communication. It is very spam of time; it has links together the whole world. In simple terms, internet means the connection of a large number of computers with one another. Now, through internet, almost all the computers of the world are interconnected with one another. Seen in this context, internet has transformed the world into a global village in real terms.

Internet is replete with countless advantages. It has possible man’s access to countless websites, informative programs, scientific discoveries, and global, political, social, economic and cultural developments, world events, world’s events and happenings, great libraries, treasures of knowledge, vast information, entertainment and much more. Then, internet is proving a low-cost of source of chatting, communication and exchange of ideas and information. Through internet, a student can consult great libraries and scholars, a doctor can learn advancement in medicines and surgery, an adventure can explorer the remote corner of the world, a job-seeker can observe job-advertisements and an ambitious person can find his life-partner also.

Unfortunately, the wrong and corrupt use of internet has also made it a great curse and nuisance. Many people use internet for vulgar chatting, nude films in addition to immoral programmes. In Pakistan, there is a mushroom growth of Nat-cafes as well as computer-centres where in specially designed private cabins along with young boys along with girls, elderly people and small children too are seen busy in doing crude chatting and watching immoral programmes. This thing not only destroys their moral character but also wastes most of their precious time.  Moreover, it’s playing havoc with all our religious, social, moral and cultural values.  Then, internet is used to spread disinformation, rumours, sensational news, poisonous propaganda and computer virus. All this causes large scale harm. As internet has confined the people to four-walls, healthful activities like sports, games, social gatherings, cultural activities, sharing of feelings, etc, are vanishing away rapidly.

In the crying need of the hour to put internet to right and wise use, No doubt internet is dispensable these days but its wrong use is a total nuisance. Its wrongs use must be discouraged. The government should impose a code of ethics on Net-cafes and computer centres. Parents should keep a strict watch on their children in this respect. Strict action must be taken against the web-sites that speed disinformation, immorality, vulgarity and computer virus. Internet should only be used as a source of vast information, fast communication and positive entertainment. Its wise and proper use can make it a real blessing for one and all. 

Unemployment

The problem of unemployment is hanging line a Damocles sword on the head of our country. Workless people are always dangerous to the security of the state. The fire of the stomach leads them to commit any crime. Unmet play meant is the mother of ills. It is a poison it pollutes the society and wrecks the political fabric of the country.

It turns law abiding and honest man in to criminals and dacoits. It encourages dishonesty, patronizes corruption glorifies falsehood and brings into light the dale side of human character .

It in difficult to expect  truth nobility and honesty from a persona who cannot have two square meals a day and who can not provide a dose of medicine to his sick wife or ailing children.

‘’A ploughman on his feet is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Along spew of poverty and unemployment is a great menace of the state. At creates discontent. Discontent generates disaffection breeds sedition and sedition rays culminate in a revolution. It is therefore the first and the foremost duty of a state to give employment to its citizens and heap them busy doing some work or other so that they may have no time to develop unhealthy and seditious thoughts. 

A great thinner has said, It in better to employ people on digging hours and filing them cap again than not to employ them at all.

The problem of unemployment in our country has now become a national problem .It has effected educated classes as well as unreduced classes machine withers as well as the tillers of the soil there various causes of unemployment in our country. 

In a rapid growth of population both in cites and villages. Fm fact population has been growing for the last twenty years all over the world but Pakistan is a great sinner in this respect.

Every year thousand of new mouths ore born to be fed .In vi usages’ as land in limited agriculture to the increased number .In cites both educated and uneducated are the victims of unemployment anomy educe acted in supposed to be largely queer of the wrong system of education that prevails in our country, Our universities produce them ands of graduates who can work only on clerical posts . There in no provision of technical training or vocational insure action .It does not meet the practical  necessities of life .

It offers no solution to the problem of bread and butter. In the constitutional obligation on the part of the government that it should pay some serious attention to this problem. 

Public cooperation is also very necessary in eradicating this problem. The trouble in our country is that people expect the government to do everything. 

The man in the streets wants that our government sitting in Islamabad should go on issuing orders on paper and like Alladin’s Lamp great and good things should be created out of nothing. We forget of we do not do the work; the work will not be done.

Terrorism

Today mankind is facing many complex problems and issues. Our forefathers were the victims of illiteracy, ignorance and superstitions. We are the victims of terrorism and exploitation. 

Terrorism has become threat to modern society and civilization. It has badly shattered the existence of humanity on the face of the earth. 

Hundreds of people are killed in a single explosion and many more are destined to slow and painful death. During the last many years, Pakistan has become the favourite place for the terrorists to execute their destructive activities.

The Mosques, Imam Bargahs, tombs, the Places of worships and religious centres are the special targets of the terrorists. Bomb blasts at busy shopping plazas, railway stations and bus stands 

where many innocent lives are lost are the worst examples of terrorism. Terrorist organizations are supported by foreign governments and huge funds and modern weapons are easily provided to them. 

The terrorists play in the hands of others. Their purpose is to create harassment among the masses.

Terrorist attacks on World Trade Centre in New York and Pentagon in Washington gave new meaning to terrorism. There a famous saying “Give the dog a bad name and hang him” Now America is adopting the same policy. It labels any country, terrorist, and invades it, as it has done to Iraq and Afghanistan. 

What America and its allies are doing to the world is a noble act towards global peace and of the victims of their aggression retaliates, it is terrorism. Terrorism can’t be wiped out unless justice finds its rules in all the countries of the world. The western countries are branding Islam as a religion of violence.

They should minds it that Islam detests abhors and forbids terrorism. All the religious sects’ ethnic groups, governments, 

international agencies and USA that claim to wipe out terrorism peep into their oven minds and ask one questions, “Are we doing justice to people irrespective of their religion, 

caste creed, and country? Unless the answer is “yes” terrorism must prevail. Man has known to decide which way to move whether to walk on the path of holiness or that of sorrow and death. 

Time has arrived when the children of humanity of they wish to survive in a process of their evolution must get back from the path of hatred jealousy and misunderstanding and restart their journey on a new path, the path of truth, love and non-violence.

Judge Your Personality By Colours

GREEN:

It is the colour of mental health. The people who like this colour are usually generous extravagant and well-mannered. They are lively and some time disturbance for others. In Islam green colour reflects spirituality.

WHITE:

It is the colour of peace, of sobriety. Those who like it like cleanliness. They like to teach others and to be taught. They are kind, serious, patient and loving.

RED:

Those who like this colour are usually gay and hot by temperament. They are true to their feelings, romantic, helpful, loving and passionate. It shows their zest for life. Red is also a sign of danger.

ORANGE:

This colour represents softness, persons liking this colour are usually after contentment. They are popular due to their sweet and melodious talk.

BROWN:

It presents imagination. The people who like this colour are serious, sincerer, friendly, having little malice of life.

PINK:

Those who like this colour want to be happy. They are sensitive and emotional. They made good conversation but they have a few friends.

BLUE:

It is the colour of popularity. The people who like this colour are hospitable cheerful and sensitive by temperament, serene and calm. They spend their life in hope. They are person of delicate imagination.