شانتی رنجن بھٹا چاریہ
جناب شانتی رنجن بھٹا چاریہ کے انتقال سے اردو زبان اپنے ایک مخلص خادم اور زبردست شیدائی سے محروم ہوگئی وہ موجودہ بنگلہ دیش کے ضلع جیسور میں پیدا ہوئے تھے اور ان کی تعلیم حیدرآباد میں ہوئی تھی مگر کلکتہ ان کی سرگرمیوں کا مرکز رہا وہ عرصہ تک مغربی بنگال کے محکمۂ اطلاعات سے اور کچھ عرصہ تک مرکزی وزارت اطلاعات و نشریات سے بھی وابستہ رہے، جناب شانتی رنجن بنگالی اور اردو دونوں کے ماہر اور اردو کے ممتاز مصنف تھے۔ انہوں نے بنگلہ ادب کی تاریخ کے علاوہ بنگالی ناولوں کے ترجمے سے بھی اردو کے سرمایہ میں اضافہ کیا، وہ انجمن ترقی اردو کی مجلس عام اور اردو یونیورسٹی کمیٹی کے رکن بھی تھے، بنگال میں اردو کے فروغ اور مغربی بنگال اردو اکیڈمی کے قیام میں ان کا بڑا دخل تھا، ان کی ادبی خدمات کے اعتراف میں میر اکیڈمی لکھنؤ اور ساہتیہ اکیڈمی دہلی سے انہیں ایوارڈ بھی ملے، شانتی رنجن جی ہماری مشترکہ تہذیب کے عاشق اور صحیح معنوں میں سیکولر تھے، ہر شخص سے خوش اخلاقی اور گرم جوشی سے ملتے، راقم سے بھی دوبار ملاقات ہوئی تو اپنے خلوص و محبت کا نقش دل پر بیٹھا گئے۔ (ضیاء الدین اصلاحی۔ اکتوبر ۱۹۹۳ء)
Misunderstanding of Westerner about Islam. Islam originates from the word "Salam" which means peace, submission and tolerance. Islam has never preached for intolerance, hatred and violence. It has despised violence and bloodshed and having no place for extremism. Islam is a religion of moderation rather than extremism. The Holy Quran enshrines benign treatment and attitude even towards non-believers, who are residing in Muslim state and to guarantee them all their basic rights of life and property. It negates hatred and fundamentalism and stands for universality. There arises question that how this situation has been muddled and the real soul of Islam is distorted? How incendiary norms have been infested in federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan? There is a need for implementation of anti-terror laws and to condemn terrorism in all its manifestations.
Increasing anthropogenic activities are inducing negative impact on environment as well as on human health. In the current scenario of global change, people are more conscious about natural products. Toxic chemical dyes are one of the major pollutants. Vegetable left over material are an excellent source of natural dyes. The extraction experiments results indicated that better extraction of natural colorants from different vegetables depends on the nature and concentration of extraction media. The highest concentration of colorants have been achieved for revival of natural dyes are gaining popularity among the consumers. Present work has been conducted to explore the colorant potential of vegetable residual material using different extraction media. Results showed that black carrot, red carrot, brinjal, cabbage, cauliflower, lady finger, bitter gourd, turnip, sugar beet, tomato and cucumber leaves in 2% acidified methanol, in 9.0 g NaOH, in 4% acidified methanol, 3% acidified methanol, in 100% methanol, in 2% of acid, in 3% of acid, in 2% of acidified methanol, in 5% methanolic KOH, in 80% methanol and in 2% methanolic KOH, respectively gave maximum colorant in term of highly significant results. Among all plants, tomato and cucumber leaves gave minimum colorant solubility in all extraction media. Optimization of varying dyeing parameters such as time, temperature, salt concentration, material to liquor ratio and pH of best dye extracts has been performed to investigate the optimized dyeing conditions. Using optimized dye extracts, chemical and bio pre and post mordanting has been performed to achieve different color shades onto mordanted cotton fabrics. Bio mordanting comparatively produced darker shade on cotton fabrics than chemical mordanting. Optimized chemical and bio pre and post mordanted fabrics showed excellent rating of light, washing, dry and wet rubbing fastness. Qualitative phytochemical determination of vegetable residues showed the presence of tannins, alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, carbohydrates, glycosides, phenolic compounds, terpenoids, fats and sugars respectively. FTIR showed the confirmation of phytochemicals by presence of functional groups, like hydroxyl group, alkenes, alkane, ketones and aromatic groups in vegetable dye extract. The dyed cotton fabrics and vegetable dye extracts showed remarkable antimicrobial activity. The vegetable based dyes could be eco-friendly replacement of hazardous dyes.