Modern Urdu Fiction: Politics of Literacy and the Asphyxiation of Critical Thinking

This study is a critical and textual analysis of Dr. Humera Ishfaq’s short story, Ibne Suqrat and Shahid Siddiqui’s novel Aadhay Adhoray Khab. The mentioned works have focused the vandalised education and deliberate aloofness of the political authorities in the third world countries. The teachers are the elevated platforms to offer the nations the stages where questions for awareness, vision and better life may be raised. It was for such enlightening questions that Aristotle, Socrates, Galileo, Giordano Bruno and Pythagoras had been made answerable by those powers who felt threatened because of education and enlightenment. It is because of Education and teachers that the individuals mature, societies improve and ultimately the nations progress. The anti-enlightenment forces, however, still try to resist education and the educationists because education removes that rust from the minds which frees the masses from blind traditionalism and confirmation. The current critical analysis, on one hand, elaborates the selected works and on the other hand; explores the prevailing causes of the collapse of education in the developing countries. This article assesses the divisions and the relevant impressions of standard versus non-standard education systems. Education has the potential to enable and renovate societies, but its efficacy is liable to administrative policies. The responsibility lies with policy-makers to either elevate people through education or quash critical views by retaining imperfect education standards. This study also analyses how education policies shape societies, comparing approaches that prolong obsolete stereotypes.