Leisure and Art

Spending leisure in an art, lost both in Europe and Asia. There was a time when Pakistani knew how to spend their leisure time. I went to Kashmir some years ago, and saw beautiful wood carvings, carpets, woollen clothes, paper match, furniture and toys. I was told that all these were made by local workmen n winter, when snow lay all around, and there were long days of enforced  leisure, The Kashmiri knows that the correct way of ;pending leisure is acquiring culture, making and contemplating beautiful things. The Punjab peasant, also, has many months of enforced leisure — how does he spend them?

In laziness, litigation and crime. One reason why Pakistan has made no advancement in science is that ‘Pakistanis as people are not prepared to take p scientific hobbies. Educated Pakistanis in moffusil towns, where there is plenty of leisure or mental culture, employ themselves only in ne way — playing bridge.