Inzy lets things flow over him This is not just the story of a man who has risen to be one of Pakistan’s icons. It is also a more human tale, one of two friends and a friendship that has stood for nearly 20 years, despite the differences caused by distance, status and money. On Thursday evening, even as the hotel prepares for the arrival of the Indian team (the Pakistani team is not top priority), one man is trying to find a proper place for a big framed photograph of a young, laughing Inzamam-ul Haq.
He is painstakingly going over a banner written in English, welcoming Inzamam home. Is this correct English? ” he asks. “More or less,” one smiles apologetically. “My friend is coming home,” he smiles excitedly. “And I want it to be perfect. ” Meet Ghulam Mujtaba, just Mujtaba to most, almost a tradition in Multan himself everyone knows himand the Pakistan skipper’s long-standing friend. “People here never used to talk of Mujtaba and Inzamam without mentioning the other,” says another man, watching Mujtaba’s efforts. “Yes,” says Mujtaba. “But that was a long time ago.
Now he has gone far ahead, further than even he dreamed of going and I just watch with pride. Inzamam met Mujtaba through elder brother Intezaar, who was a friend. “Intezaar brought him to my father’s shop one day,” says Mujtaba. “I was 16-17 and he was younger. We hit it off immediately and it’s always been that way. ” According to Mujtaba, they were a group of four. “Inzamam has never been one for making many friends.
Even as a kid he would either hang out at his only sister’s place here or at my home. Night after night, after everyone had slept, Inzamam would make the omelettes, I would make the rotis and we would eat and eat and talk. Mujtaba recalls how they would often not sleep at all, just wash up and go straight for the first namaaz of the day and be there even before Inzamam’s father, Pir Intizam-ul-Haq, one of Multan’s biggest spiritual leaders. “He would always ask us how we were there so early.
We never told him the truth. ” Inzamam, it appears, would spend most of the day at the old Multan Stadium practicing with bat in hand. “It was Imran Khan, on a visit here, who saw him and said he wanted him to come to Lahore. There was a lot of heartbreak but it was the best thing for him, so he went and joined Lahore Club. He remembers the time Inzamam was picked for the 1992 World Cup and that incredible match-winning semi-final performance against New Zealand.
Inzamam played that match coming straight off the drip he had some kind of food poisoning and it was decided he could play just hours before the game. And then the World Cup win. “Multan came out to meet him in full strength at the airport,” says Mujtaba. “I didn’t go. He was a superstar and I wasn’t sure if I would fit in with his new life now. I didn’t want to impose.
When the motorcade carrying Inzamam was passing the shop, the then young star got off and brought his friend to be with him the rest of the way. There are pictures of the two waving from that convoy. “He’s always been that kind of person,” says the by-now emotional Mujtaba. “Fame hasn’t changed him. ” He thinks a bit and then adds that only in the past few years has Inzamam begun asserting himself a bit more. “Things people said during the match-fixing phase, other problems, added responsibility of the captaincy, they’ve all made him react now and then.
He still is laidback, has nothing bad to say about anybody. In fact, that’s the best and the worst thing about him — his tendency to just let things flow over him. ” Time has passed since those glory days. These are heady days of a different type. On Friday morning, Inzamam comes down to breakfast. A little later, Mujtaba enters and the two embrace. Even as Inzamam leaves for nets with his team after a while, Mujtaba prepares to take the Pakistan captain’s wife and children back home. They are obviously used to it.
He introduces Inzamam’s beautiful wife and then refers to his son, attired in a mini-Pakistan uniform, with pride. “Ehtesham wants to be like his father when he grows up. For me, there can be no better dream. ” And then he waves, he’s in a hurry. He runs the barber’s shop in the hotel.
Is this article easy to understand or difficult? Why? What is it about? Arrive at a summary of the article in about 8-10 sentences.
This article is easy to understand because it is written in a simple, straightforward style. The article on Inzamam-ul-haq is written by Kadambari Murali, well known sports journalist. She is currently the sports editor of the ‘Hindustan Times’. As the first paragraph ends we know that this article is based on a conversation between the journalist Kadambari Murali and gulam Mujtaba, close friend of Inamam-ul-haq or Inzy, as he is known by his friends.
The conversation takes place in the lobby of a hotel in Multan where mujtaba is busy preparing for Inzy’s return home. Mujtaba and Inzy have been close friends for twenty years and Mujtaba narrates old incidents to Kadambari, telling her how Inzy and he would spend whole nights chatting with each other. He also tells Kadambari about Inzamam’s early cricketing carrer, his rise to become a cricket sports star, his success and his problema. We get know that Inzamam has never assertive and only recently started to assert himself.
Who does the article tell us more about Inzamam or Mujtaba ? Who are you more interested in? Why?
This article tells us more about Inzamam, though it is based on a conversation between the journalist and Mujtaba. The reader would naturally be more interested in learning about Inzamam was Captain of the Pakistan cricket team from 2003-07. in the Indian subcontinent cricket is a religion and fans love to read about their favorite players. Que:-3) on the reading a passage, it is important to able to tell about its style.
From the following words decide which words describe this passage best: (narrative, descriptive, reflective, factual, humorous, formal, informal, informative, imaginative, ironic, straightforward, matter of fact, conversational) Ans: The style of the article is informal and conversational, Kadambari Murali does not go into details of Inzamam’s career or his achievements as a Cricketer. Instead she adopts the human approach and focuses on Mujtaba’s reflection (reflective) on Inzamam’s personality and his narration (narrative) of the early days of their friendship.
How is Nisha Sharma’s case different from that of satyarani Chaddha? Give at least three differences.
Both Nisha Sharma and Satyarani Chaddha raised the banner against the evils system of dowry but there are differences between the two cases. Firstly Satyarani Chaddha is not a victim herself as Nisha is. In Satyarani’s case it was her daughter who lost her life to his system. Secondly in Nisha’s case the diaster is adverted in turn due to Nisha’s courage and her parents support. In Satyarani’s case however, her daughter loses her life as she is tortured and killed by her in laws.
Thirdly, one major difference between the two cases is that while Nisha’s parents stand by her and support her in her stand against such a marriage, Satyarani, being a parent, has yet gone along with dowry demands and acts only after she loses her daughter. nisha’s case teaches us to act in time.
What do protests like those by Nisha and satyarani teach us?
Protests like those by Nisha and Satyarani teach us that an individual’s actions can have far reaching repurcussions. we should never think that because we are alone something that we believe in we should act on our belifs and the rest will follow.
The writer says that we need to ask some ‘hard questions’ with regard to Nisha’s case. What are these questions?
AThe hard questions point at the fault that lie within all those people who go along with dowry demands. Though Nisha recieves parental support when she decides that the cash demand had become too much, yet till that time both she and her parents had gone along with unreasonable demands. This leads to further questions whether any demands can be reasonable and why should there be any demand at all.
What is the central issue?
The central issue is the social mind set that considers a woman to be a burden first in her parental home and then in her marital home. The belief that dowry is given and accepted so that a woman is not considered a burden in her marital home results from this mentality. We need to change this mentality or else individuals efforts like those of Nisha and Satyarani will be forgotten very soon.
According to the author what is the biggest advantage girls have in their fight against dowry?
The girl’s biggest advantage in their fight against dowry is that they have the numbers on their side. There are less number of girls than boys in our country. So it is the girls who should be playing hard to get. They should not give in so easily.
Do you think that the narrator is really a naughty child? Examine some of the situation in which she is scolded and decide what her faults are.
The narrator, Milli is a naughty child, is obstinate and she is fairly intelligent as well. She is obstinate and she is often scolded and smacked by her mother. She is branded as a problem, a nuisance, a bitch. in the train compartment she stricks out her tongue at everyone. She gets two slaps when she overhears her maasi’s complaint and asks Ma the meaning of word ‘endure’. She refuses to move out of the way of Hari’s Ma. She feels like swallowing the burning comphor to end her life. She pinches maama’s son.
What is the attitude of the driver, the dai and the elderly neighbour towards the little girl?
The middle daughter of Lali ia an eyesore for her mother. But the driver is amused when the girls scream. Everytime he presses the horn, the girls scream together. The dai, Hari’s Ma also does not scold the narrator when she stands in her way. She only laughs as she complains. The elderly neighbour, also saves the little girl from thrashing when Ma moves towards her with her clenched fist.
How is the narrator’s elder sister different from her? What makes her more acceptable to the family?
The narrator’s elder sister is very sensible and loving. he narrator knows that the elder sister alone in the family loves her truly. She warms that if she persists, She might be beaten to death. The elder sister is vastly different from the younger one. She doesn’t harass Ma. She doesnot tease Hari’s Ma. She is never smacked. QUE:-8. The little girl, the narrator, asks three question it the story. The first time she poses a question, she is sternly told not to argue with her elders. The second time she is sternly told not to argue with her elders. The second time she is given a slap and the third time she can barely choke back her tears.
What is so disturbing about the question she asks?
The narrator, though a little girl, is very active and naughty. She wants to overhear wht the elders women are talkinh about. She asks Baabu if she can ever turn into a boy. She asks her Ma what her Maasi is enduring in her house. She questions naani and others why they treat girls as Goddesses only on Ashtami day when actually no body loves the girls. Her questions embarass the elders. They are irritated and they very often smack the little girl. Her questions are pointed and disturbing.
I don’t want to be a Goddess. What does this tell us about the way women are treated in our society?
The narrator of this story laments the lot of girls and women folk in the Indians society. Her cry of pain is, in fact, the cry of the female species. Society is prejudiced against women, treats them as domestic help, as sex pots, as a commodity. And all this is tolereted by men folk who adore women also as deities or symbol of power. Women are worshipped as Durga or Chandi who once killed the demons. The narrator’s resentment is real and justified. though her revolt remains weak and ineffective, she justly demands a fair treatment at home from her mother, and other elderly women.
She wants to be treated just like a human being, not as a Goddess on a certain day in the year. Her cry is loud and clear, only the society is deaf to that. The narrator, though a little girl, longs for an escape from her torture cell. She wishes she were a bird to fly away, or had that magic betel nut to become invisible. So desperate is she that she thinks of ending her life by swallowing the burning comphor.
