farooq serwer preface regarding novel

The world of Maniacs and Taban
At the moment I feel very nervous and I do not understand what I should do. Some people use exaggeration in life and whenever they do something, they exaggerated. Let's say I'm doing something very important. I don't think that's the case here, but the fact remains that I have been assigned a very hard job and since there is a severe shortage of critics in Pashto literature and then I am not a critic myself and this is not my job, Maybe that's the reason for the panic, yes, of course I'm a fiction writer, so I want everything I say to be clear and it is also my desire that it would be my good luck if people like my opinion, and since I have deep and old relationship, connection and association with English and Urdu literature, in consequence of that I am so serious and you can say uneasy and worried as well. I don't want people to agree with me or they should have the same views like mine, but they should try to think over my opinion once they close their eyes.

The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most wonderful novels in the world of literature, which is very beautiful, very short and the American writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this writing. An old fisherman Santiago,one day when goes for the purpose of fishing in the sea, a very old dream of his comes true and a great wish shows to be proved and fulfilled. Here a huge fish, which looks like a giant and basically is marlin fish, gets caught in his hook, but now bringing this giant fish to the shore is the biggest problem for him and in the same struggle. Eventually, the same novel comes to an end. The same Marlin problem with Dr. Liaquat Taban's current novel lies here with me. Although I have only a few sentences to write on it, but these sentences are very difficul for me. Really and no doubt there is a great piece of writing like Marlin in front of me, a very complex piece of writing written in a very scary way on a very complex society. My only wish is that people would rather go to the story of this novel and its style of writing. Try to understand the ugly spirit of the society presented in it, which is a great credit to Dr. Liaqat Taban, who is a fierce rebel against tradition and who represents a very modern society in a very modern way. But it is the irony of fate ,when we begin to think over this modern society, we find it very ugly, dirtiest and tremendously and extremely unclean.

Apparently Doctor Taban is a very simple and innocent person, it is true, I have spent more than thirty years in his friendship with him, it is also the reason that I know each and every aspect of his personality, and before the reading of the present novel it was also my claim and still it is my claim. But when I studied the instant creation, I asked from myself that Mr where are you, you were wrong and you know nothing about him, and he is a totally different man, who was living, residing and laughing in your mind and your thoughts. Believe me, after the study of novel, I found Taban a very different man. Don't think that he is a very happy man, no he is very unhappy and gloomy man. Really he is in pain. It is only your idea that he is the man of peaceful mind, no he is a man of different Outlook and has a lot of concerns regarding our present society. He is a fierce and ferocious man of Pashto literature as Jonathan Swift of English literature.

It is not my idea only, but I am sure that Taban is not writing a novel at the moment,like a doctor he is just sitting next to a dying patient and knowing the cause of his disease and treating him properly. The good news here is that Dr. Taban does not want his patient to die at all. This is exactly the attitude of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he is also fighting in every one of his novels. He does not want his sick society to die. Perhaps because of his passion, the Nobel Prize-winning committee awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Taban possesses the same revolutionary spirit, but We see a big difference between Taban and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Taban is not only an artist but also a revolutionary doctor and he really wants his sick patient to be treated, which is very close to him. I think the struggle to save its patient is brilliantly portrayed in the present novel.

Although the current novel is a tragedy and having a horrible end , Taban is trying to paint an accurate picture of the spirit of our current society through different colors like a beautiful artist in his novel. Taban's Psychological Society is a society full of diseases. Like the beautiful Urdu fiction writer Manto, Taban also says that don't abuse the sexual misconduct prevalent in the society, but try to understand its economic and psychological causes. He is strongly opposed to capitalism as well as educational backwardness. Taban's characters are ignorant, they have many economic constraints, they are currently living in the age of modern communication in the world, most of them are people,who have the modern mobiles in their hands , which contain the poison spread by the world's major economic powers in the form of sex movies, which is making us all Sex Maniacs, increasing our sexual needs, we have this ugly problem all the time and we can not do anything other than sex and its pleasure attracts us all the time. The question arises and in fact the world's major economic powers and their agents do not want us to become an economic power, they are trying to make us sexually ill by injecting us with sex. Don't let our mental abilities develop. May economic slavery be our destiny like every backward country in the third world and may we all be destroyed and ruined in the same way. In fact, Dr. Taban has written this novel in his own and unique style. As such, we can see his full observation. His excellent study and his control over the subject. From a medical expert, this novel is in fact a gift for Pashto literature and its readers. Let's not look at it as it is, but understand its spirit and try to understand the good intentions behind it. This is a novel by the modern Jonathan Swift of modern Pashto literature and full of horrible satire. It's a creation. I appreciate it. I appreciate the moral courage that the doctor has shown in presenting such a terrifying subject and now it invites you to read it.

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Farooq Sarwar Advocate
June 11, 2020niacs and Taban