The period Saeed spent at Government College Lahore betwen 1946 and 1953 were, he says, “some of the happiest of my life” and also “very formative”. This section of Saeed’s memoirs looks at some of the close friends he made there, including Arshad Ali Tour, Inamul Haq and Zafar Ismail, who — like Saeed — was to later study physics at Cambridge.
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Posted by matindurrani on September 27, 2013
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When Saeed entered Government College Lahore, he took over from his brother Sajjad as secretary of the Sondhi Translation Society, being particularly interested in translating Chekov’s short stories into Urdu. But the experience meant more than enjoying prose and poetry – the organizational skills Saeed picked up also helped him in his later career, for example, as a faculty member at the University of Birmingham.
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Posted by matindurrani on September 27, 2013
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Saeed Durrani was educated between the ages of 15 and 22 at Government College Lahore — a premier educational institution that had been founded in 1865. He came fifth out of about 55,000 candidates in a province-wide matriculation exam to gain entry to the College in 1946 and was the top candidate from outside Lahore and the highest-placed Muslim student. This section from the memoirs includes Saeed’s early experiences at the college and his involvement in protest movements against the British for the freedom of India and the creation of a new country — Pakistan. Those protests culminated in him getting arrested and spending 12 days in prison. Rich curries provided by his Auntie Shafqat, however, led to him gaining 12kg in weight while in jail.
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Posted by matindurrani on September 20, 2013
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Saeed Durrani (1929-2018) 