The Lighthouse Journal of Literature & Linguistics

ساجدافغانؔ، هائيکو کښې د منفي مذهبي کردارونو د طنز تجزياتي څېړنه

عبد النعيم — 2024-12-31

In Pashto literature, Sajid Afghan is very famous for writing haiku. It is the most popular genera of Japanese poetry. Sajid Afghan’s contributions to Pashto literature in the form of two haiku books namely “Sharghashy”, and “Pasham”. The main object or theme of these books is the critical analysis of satirical religious characters. The research at hand is the analysis of Sajid Afghan’s Haiku for satirical religious characters.

قدرت اللہ شہاب کی آپ بیتی ’’شہاب نامہ‘‘ میں ملکی اداروں کے مسائل کی عکاسی

Fatima Hayat — 2024-12-31

Qudrat Ullah Shahab is a Novelist, fiction writer and autobiographer at a time. All the issues of his age have been addressed in his literary works. His discussion concerning the problems of the partition of India in his Novelette “Ya Khuda” reveales his in depth knowledge of the contemporary issues. In addition to this he has also written an autobiography named “Shahab Nama” where is he has highlighted the problems of bureaucracy. All this took him to have an exact knowledge of the disloyal, tartars and corrupt people in Pakistan. In his biography “Shahab Nama” he has touch upon the issues of this institution bureaucracy. This research paper seeks to the line light his own life and also the general conditions of those days. He has highlighted in his book “Shahab Nama” all those problems which he paced during his service a bureaucrat. This book not only throws light on his own life but it also reveals the entire age.

د پروفېسر سلمٰی شاهين د پښتو فولکلوري خدمات

عظمي ګل — 2024-12-31

Professor Salma Shaheen is renowned Pashto writer and researcher who has made significant contributions to Pashto folklor literature. She has authored several books and articles on Pashto folklore and literature including Rohi sandarai vol, 1 & 2 and da pukhto tappe masharitee aw saaqafatee asar''. Her works has helped to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Pashtun people, which is very essential part of Pakistani's cultural diversity.

A Durkheim’s Reading of Indo-Islamic Wedding Rituals in Twilight in Delhi and Contemporary India

Sadia Nazeer — 2024-12-31

This research compares and contrasts the Indian Muslim wedding ceremonies of Nawabzada Haider Ali Khan in Noor Mahal, Rampur, (a modern royal wedding), with Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi, in order to emphasize their cultural and social importance. The study examines how rituals function as manifestations of social cohesiveness and collective identity in their contexts by utilizing Emile Durkheim’s Ritual Theory. To emphasize the significance of wedding within the cultural fabric of the community, this study examines the complexities of upper-class Muslim families in Delhi in the early 20^th century.It discusses modern Indian Muslim weddings, a fusion of tradition and modernity, where intricate rituals like the sangeet (music), haldi (tumeric ceremony), mehndi (henna ceremony), and baraat (wedding ceremony) still have cultural value. Thus, this study aims to investigate the changes in social dynamics, the importance of rituals in both contexts, and persisting cultural values by looking at how wedding customs have evolved from the early 20th century to the present day.

A Corpus-Based Study of Gender Construction in Tehmina Durrani’s Blasphemy

Sadia Rauf — 2024-12-31

This study examines the depiction of gender construction in Tehmina Durrani’s novel Blasphemy by implementing a corpus-based technique and employing Gloria Jean Watkins's (Bell’s Hook) feminist theory and Kimberly Crenshaw's intersectionality framework. The study uncovers patterns of male dominance and feminine submission through a qualitative investigation of barred words and adjectives linked with male and female characters. The instances of selected categories and concordances were derived from a specialized corpus built on one-novel text through Sketch Engine software. While female characters are depicted as oppressed and inferior, male characters are depicted as powerful landlords. This study sheds light on linguistic abuse by demonstrating that most verbal taboos aimed at shaming women are employed by male characters. Men demonstrate dominance over women while using verbs, whereas women demonstrate passivity when using adjectives. In combination with corpus linguistics and gender studies, this work invites future research into gender roles of male and female characters in Pakistani literature.

Stirring Men’s Blood: A Gustavean study of the Power of Speech and Crowd Psychology in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Tousif Rehman Shah — 2024-12-31

Mob mentality or crowd dynamics frequently manifest in various aspects
of society, influencing collective behavior in significant ways. It exists
among individuals gathered for a common cause. It causes them to think,
behave and act differently from the way they would, were they alone in the
same situation. The scientific enquiry about this phenomenon was first
carried out by the French polymath, Gustave Le Bon. This study explores
Crowd Psychology (also known as Social Psychology) as a powerful force
for social control in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. It also
focuses on how leaders and politicians exploit masses by creating a false
consciousness via their prestige and subtle use of language by focusing on
the speeches of Antony and Brutus. Moreover, this research traces the
general characteristics of crowd displayed in the play, by looking at the
contagion theory and the de-individuation theory. It also enquires about
the means and tools used to manipulate crowds stirring them to do as their
leaders wish.

Ecological Economy: An Eco-critical Perspective of Omar Tarin’s Poetry

Irfan Ul- Wahab — 2024-12-31

Life on the Earth is shared by multi types of organisms; these organisms facilitate, irritate, or eliminate the existence of their fellow beings. The central role among organisms is held by man in view of different religions and logic, but the life of this major organism depends on the lives of other organisms. This interdependent and interrelated nature of life on the planet generates a consistent debate of determinism among thinkers. One relatively recent concept in this regard is Anthropocentrism, which awards the central role to man; the will of man is to determine the lives of the rest of the organism. This authoritative role allows man to exploit the lives of other living beings and thus irritates threats, or end the existence of these organisms. This threatening and exploitative way of life on the part of man not only endangers the lives of the other organism, but also the life of the very man, because the life of man itself depends on the existence of other living beings. Ecocriticism surfaces the devastation caused by anthropocentric way of life to the rest of lives on the earth; it reminds man the role of safe guarding the planet by facilitating the existence of other organisms. The close reading of the text of the poetry of Tarin criticizes the debilitating role of man, and pinpoints the devastation caused by human actions to the rest of the organism in the ecology. His poetic laments alarms the anthropocentric man to step back from the devastating adventures; otherwise, the futility of those action will put an end to life as a whole on this planet.