ثمینہ سید کی افسانہ نگاری
منیر عباس سپرا، پی ایچ۔ڈی سکالر
اس میں کوئی شک نہیں کہ عصر حاضر کی خواتین افسانہ نگاروں میں ثمینہ سید ایک نامور افسانہ نگار ہیں ۔ان کے اب تک دو افسانوں کے مجموعے منظر عام پر آ چکے ہیں ۔ پہلا افسانوی مجموعہ ”ردائے محبت“سیوا پبلی کیشنز لاہور سے2011ء میں شائع ہوا ہے۔دوسرا افسانوی مجموعہ ”کہانی سفر میں ہے“ بھی سیوا پبلی کیشنز لاہور سے2016ء میں منظر عام پر آیا ۔ان کا ایک شعری مجموعہ بھی چھپ چکاہے اور تیسرا افسانوی مجموعہ زیر طبع ہے۔
ان کا ہر افسانہ موضوع کے لحاظ سے مختلف اوربوقلمونی صلاحیت سے بھرپور ہوتا ہے۔ان کی کہانیاں معاشرے میں پھیلے ناسوروں کی نشاندہی بھی کرتی ہیں اور کبھی کبھی ان پر مرہم بھی لگاتی ہیں۔ان کی کہانی کے آغاز کی بنت اختتام سے جدا ہوتی ہے لیکن پڑھتے ہوئے احساس نہیں ہوتا کہ کہاں حقیقت کے رنگ افسانے میں آمیخت ہو گئے ہیں۔ ان کے افسانوں کے موضوعات میں سماجی مسائل ،طبقاتی تقسیم ، جنسی و نفسیاتی پہلو، اور روزمرہ زندگی میں درپیش آنے والے ہر پہلو کو موضوع بنایا ہے۔ان کے افسانوں میں انسانی اعمال اور معاشرتی و سماجی احوال کو خو رد بینی نظر سے دیکھایا گیا ہے۔ افسانہ نگار نے جدید دور کے انسان کے ذہنی رویوں اور نفسیاتی مسائل کو سادہ اور رواں اسلوب میں قاری کے سامنے پیش کیا ہے۔ یہ بھی ان کاکمال فن ہے کہ وہ افسانے کو بے جا طوالت سے بچاتے ہوئے محدود اور منتخب لفظوں میں کامیابی سے قاری تک وہ پیغام پہنچا دیتی ہیں جس نے انہیں قلم اٹھانے پر اکسایا ہوتا ہے۔ثمینہ سید کی فن کاری یہ ہے کہ انہوں نے کہانی کے بنیادی عناصر کو جدید طرز اظہار پر قربان نہیں...
Over the course of time and with the rapid increase in human population need for mutual relations become crucial. Resultantly on behalf of this closeness, separation, anti-standpoints and comparisons also emerged. As the time passed by hatred and hypocrisy and other social vices spread on large scale. Thus human society was waiting for such liberator who may lead and work for the betterment of this society. With the dawn of Islamic civilization all such issues were not only resolved but also provided with a model for containing the difference of opinion and multiple traditions under its unique worldview. Islamic History presents itself as a model where the minorities were provided with the opportunities of participating in political, social, educational and collective affairs. Thus in a society where tyranny, injustice, un-forbearance, religious intensity, terrorism and the activities of violating the human rights were very common, were substituted by the Islamic ideal of forbearance. It is argued here that the solution of all these issues was only in religion contrary to what is being claimed about an idea of social harmony where religion is not given its due position. Today its our dire need to develop a sense of harmony, modesty, affection and peacefulness among the masses of various religions of Pakistani society. It is further argued that for this very noble cause all the religious scholars and their followers can come forward playing their pertinent role.
Geotechnical applications are useful for environmental protection of surface as well as ground water by liner system. Use of clay soils in constructing low permeability liners that covers waste containment is common and cost effective. In arid and semi-arid regions, desiccation and shrinkage cracking adversely affect the integrity of compacted clay liners. The technique and methodology of combining sand, cement, polyethylene chips with medium plastic soil was used for the first time in Pakistan. A mixture of sand, cement and polyethylene chips in different proportions with medium plastic clay has been proposed to reduce the shrinkage potential of medium plastic clay. The basic purpose of this soil modification is to control the volumetric shrinkage of medium plastic clay. The polyethylene bags from garbage dumps were reused for making polyethylene chips, which will not only reduce environmental hazardous waste but also provide a useful additive for controlling soil shrinkage. It was hypothesized that combined effect of sand, cement and polyethylene chips would control the shrinkage potential of soil. The study entails characterization of soil, interaction with synthetic leachate, soil treatment in two phases and effect of leachate on treated soil. About three hundred specimens through forty five different combinations of sand, cement and recycled polyethylene chips were used to optimize volumetric shrinkage and compressive strength properties of soil. The study also evaluates the effect of synthetic leachate on soil samples. Microstructural analysis including Energy Dispersive X-Ray, X-Ray Diffraction and Scanning Electronic Microscopy were used to evaluate the efficacy of treated soil. The combination of additives with medium plastic soil not only reduced the volumetric shrinkage and permeability but also improved the unconfined compressive strength of treated soil. Regression based statistical analysis results revealed that fair correlation exists between mixture of medium plastic clay, sand, cement, polyethylene chips and volumetric shrinkage.