THE NEXT DATE

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand

After spending a life time in the company of Babas, who always preached against alcohol and bad habits, [don’t ask me whether they themselves acted on their own advice or not], and serving in the ‘deras’ [holy places] for a lifetime, I remember how I impressed some other people also, by telling them some inflated truths [truth if inflated is also an untruth], so that when they joined, and became followers of the Baba, the Baba then conferred on me the title of a Group Leader [Chhote Sahib]. There were thousands of Chhote Sahibs, who were working for the Baba.

There may have been many things going amiss, but I was lucky I did not see anything. And as a result, I had a peaceful death, and after serving the Baba and the people, I was sure God will house me in a special cell in Heaven. On reaching the assembly waiting for the judgement, with Dharamraja listening to each one’s historic deeds on earth, I found they paid no attention to my titles. But I was sure to be admitted to Heaven on the basis of my hard work, and sincere followship of the Baba.

When my turn came, they handed over to me a charge sheet, and I was asked to reply in six months. During those six months, I was to stay in the Over Lap, a newly designed place where all good and bad people were made to stay. The charges shocked me. I was quizzed for every good thing that I had done on the earth under the influence of the Baba, whom I revered as my Guru. Every person had a different charge sheet. I had a fast look at the end of the list where they had mentioned that I was 90 percent eligible to enter Hell.

You were expected to do good, and believe in simply joys, and live in innocence. Why you joined this band of idlers? Remembering God is no job in itself. On the earth, you were expected to do some good work for your family and the society. You wasted your time in the service of the Baba who is already on our hit-list. All the work you did in the name of ‘Sewa’ [service] was miscarried. You told lies to unsuspecting people and forced them into the servility  of your master. You told deliberate lies. It is unpardonable. You say you have done ‘simran’ of God every day in the morning and evening.

Chanting God’s name, without following holy edicts, is a waste of time. God does not believe in such practices which are hollow. You have been running round and round your self styled demigod. There are millions like you wasting their time around these gods. The sewa [service] that you are doing is useless if you do not understand the fundamental issues. The fundamental issue is your innocence. You work for yourself, but at the same time, make sure, your work helps the society, and it does not harm others in any way. If you are aware of it, and act accordingly, you do not need such godmen.

You also do not need to read any holy books or even to recite the name of God, if you remember one thing: to be innocent. Regarding lots of deprivations imposed arbitrarily by these Babas, you are better advised to follow your wishes. If you want to eat non-vegetarian food, or drink alcohol, if you take tobacco and enjoy smoking, if you enjoy bar dances, we have no problem so long as you do not cause any harm to society, your family and even to yourself. There is no sin, no crime if you can feel happy the way you want to live.

We have given you this beautiful body. A beautiful mind. A beautiful family. And a wonderful society of men, women, and a life in which there are huge reserves of vegetation, animals, beasts and birds. It is meant for your enjoyment. Only beware of of Knowledge. It is the gift of Satan to Adam and Eve. Knowledge alone is not enough. It is wisdom which tells you to act when, how, why and when not. What should not be done, is as much your duty, as what should be done.

We give you six months to learn, realize and accept what we want from you. Dharamraja then said, give him the next date after six months. 

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, with an opus of 180 plus books, is Laureate of the Seneca, Charter of Morava, Franz Kafka and Maxim Gorky awards.  His name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. Anand is a towering literary figure whose work embodies a rare fusion of creativity, intellect, and moral vision.

Footprints in the Sand

Her name was Gilreath

and she was fifteen

years old.

She was not ready

to start a family, to

carry the issue of her

abusive stepfather

to term.

She wanted nurturing

parents and friends

and love.

Two wrongs don’t

make a right,

she was told.

Then why are you

abusing me twice?

she asked.

There were wet

prints in the

sand to show

where the girl

stood

before she

plunged to her

death

from the precipice.

ONCE, I WORE A DELICIOUS FACE

Deltas don’t forget distant headwaters.

The bare winter branch no longer flowers.

The butterflies of my youth

have matured into maggots.

That which was garden

has transformed by time’s arson;

the glowing bud, the smoldering rose

have become like pollen ash.

To harvest the remaining me

you pearlers must dive deep.

THE RIDDLED UNRIDDLING

Our togethered time was

antic —

anticipation of futured frolic is keen.

Not knowing how becoming comes,

we remained riddlesome.

What wealthy beggars we were!

As innocence succumbed to weariness,

our fountains – they limited;

our foundations – eliminated.

Your footprints faded. I no longer heard your call.

High above all heights,

tiny rags of cloud still cling to sky’s naked skin.

Afterwardness knits,

or tears,

pastward threads.

THROWN

I’m being thrown,

knocked into next Wednesday,

but all my bones

are boxed up like hens’ eggs.

In my young nest

I dreamed of being bird.

Dreams cannot last

against this cruel, hard world.

I was plucked and packaged

and sold in market aisles.

I’m a javelin

but not a boomerang,

a-hovering

in the air like a hanged

man. I’ve lost my grounding,

my home is in the sky.

I’m being thrown,

knocked into next Wednesday,

but all my bones

are boxed up like hens’ eggs.

LIBIDO THEOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE THEORY

Time was still new

in the cooling cosmic stew,

and the immortal prepubescent

was still learning omniscience.

After establishing The Environments

God granted Himself a day of rest.

But, already bored with nascent existence,

He remained experimentally restless.

And so the Creator became the Render

and divided humanity into genders.

But His novel dirt-and-rib mixture

was still a static creature.

And the world still lacked tension,

drama, and dynamic evolution.

So, in order to bestir the universe,

God manifested as serpent.

The event was mankind’s catalyst

for stress, embarrassment, and sex.

And while the snake did shed and shed and shed

God, changeless, new-knowing, stayed frustrated.

Though lacking yet any human ego

God sought to assimilate libido.

The divine adolescent jonahed a whale.

But the erotic projection failed:

the prophet was one the whale couldn’t stomach.

And soon time exhausted the Tanakh.

And divine anxiety became more urgent.

How could God continue as virgin?

Then God knew Mary and begat himself as Son.

And that’s how God finally became human.

WE WITHIN HE WHEELS: DALIT

At the temple festival the tables went hummming under the cabbage, rice, and melons. The summer sun waning. The baldbearded helium balloons dancing grandly among nubile paper lanterns, buddhas bronze/rotund. Ah, the season it was of Experience Superior — the feelings of love and the perceived reciprocity of love, when, past all balance and sense and generational propriety, exuberant amidst the consuming and consumed, we two, lanternballoon-alike, food and Buddha commingled, music and the truth congealed.

That’s why your paradox didn’t register at the time.

And the Children happy as tadpoles aswim in father’s river. And the Children pampered like feathers adrift in mama’s balloon.

Now my beauty  r  e  a  c  h  e  s    o  u  t  In search of your moist and hidden cottage. (Remember the crisp sunflowers asmoke unkempt against the steep&damp scampismelly dirt path. Recall the rose-of-sharon labyrinth oft-credited –before and since — as the soul’s taoWay, eelslick & serpent straight, into the nirvanic heart of notUnbeing.) Your thatched and pointed little house — it’s not where last I fingered its locks. The knobs now I’m told are handled some other way.

But even so, blind and blind, my beauty reaches out

reaches                              out

my blind beauty reaches

                              Out into cold and empty vacuum.

And the Children pampered like feathers adrift in mama’s balloon, and the Children dappled in shadow ajoy in haughty first light.

Your holy mantra for the season: Iloveyou can’t love you. And the rutting neophyte at your knees picked at the koan’s echoed contradictions. I angled it in the light, squinting along its crosshairs, but the scope just would not focus. Flash powder applied, I tried to freeze it in its frame. But the quiver could never quite gel. Dusted for prints, but no proper whorl ever emerged to point its finger conclusively. “I love you can’t love you.” I parsed the riddle into phonemic meaninglessness but the significance never decoded.

Affixed onto the acrylic stage for minutest examination, clarity persistently remained at yet one remove. Until Enlightenment came at last, slowly in a rush. I’d always known you’d go, of course, but not so suddenly. And not so soon. The painful puzzle pieces shuttered into place. And the Children dappled in shadow ajjoy in haughty first light, and the Children, dapper as bluejays, agreed in bawdy verdure. I love you can’t love you. Clause the first personal, in classic equipoise with clause two cultural. Subject-clause by predicate controlled, the halving twins yining and yanging about, plusandminus all at once. The treasured self, forbidden/desired, embraced/abhorred.

(My fellow amthropologists, take careful note: her heart’s harsh judgment was conditioned by decades and millennia of micromacroforming. Metaphorically speaking, as such, I am the incest taboo. In those society eyes, I’m the catamite in the homophobic gym, the nigger in the genepool, the sheep in the unbleating humanfold. In objective terms, and all in econocultural context of course, her loving me was always te equivalent of fucking the corpse.)

And the Children, dapper as bluejays agreed in bawdy verdure, and all us Children vampiric taters in God’s root cellar.

But the mantramoth, addicted, tethered herself to the tortured flame. The cycle doomed to turn and flutter, return and flutter, and flutter away. Return again, again away, covering and recovering the same old ground, rut after rut after rut again.

And koan’s mystery deepens.

But the Children happy as tadpoles.

TALABALARNING ONA TILINI O‘RGATISHDA INTERFAOL VA INNOVATSION YONDASHUVLARNI QO‘LLASH METODLARI                  

Jumanazarova Zuxra     

Kattaqoʻrgʻon davlat pedagogika insituti Xorijiy til va adabiyoti yoʻnalishi talabasi +998500406125

 jumanazarovaz896@gmail.com

Annotatsiya: Mazkur maqolada talabalarga ona tilini o‘rgatish jarayonida interfaol va innovatsion yondashuvlarni qo‘llashning ahamiyati yoritiladi. Maqolada ta’lim jarayonida ilg‘or pedagogik texnologiyalar, zamonaviy axborotkommunikatsiya vositalari hamda interfaol metodlardan foydalanish orqali talabalar nutq madaniyatini rivojlantirish, mustaqil fikrlash va ijodiy yondashuvini shakllantirish masalalari tahlil etiladi. Tadqiqot natijalari shuni ko‘rsatadiki, interfaol va innovatsion metodlar talabalarning o‘quv motivatsiyasini oshiradi, o‘z fikrini erkin ifoda etish, til boyligini kengaytirish va kommunikativ kompetensiyasini rivojlantirishga xizmat qiladi. 

Kalit so‘zlar: Ona tili, interfaol metodlar, innovatsion texnologiyalar, ta’lim samaradorligi, ijodiy fikrlash, kommunikativ kompetensiya  

Abstract: This article highlights the importance of applying interactive and innovative approaches in teaching the native language to students. It analyzes the development of students’ speech culture, independent thinking, and creative approach through the use of advanced pedagogical technologies, modern information and communication tools, and interactive teaching methods. The research results show that interactive and innovative methods increase students’ learning motivation, help them express their thoughts freely, expand their vocabulary, and develop their communicative competence. 

Keywords: native language, interactive methods, innovative technologies, learning efficiency, creative thinking, communicative competence 

Résumé: Cet article met en lumière l’importance de l’utilisation des approches interactives et innovantes dans le processus d’enseignement de la langue maternelle aux étudiants. Il y est analysé comment l’emploi des technologies pédagogiques avancées, des outils modernes de communication et des méthodes interactives contribue au développement de la culture linguistique des étudiants, à la formation de leur pensée indépendante et de leur créativité. Les résultats de la recherche montrent que les méthodes interactives et innovantes augmentent la motivation d’apprentissage des étudiants, favorisent l’expression libre de leurs idées, enrichissent leur vocabulaire et développent leur compétence communicative. 

Mots-clés: Langue maternelle, méthodes interactives, technologies innovantes, efficacité de l’enseignement, pensée créative, compétence communicative IntroductionIn the modern educational process, the role of interactive and innovative methods in developing students’ knowledge, skills, and personal potential is steadily increasing. Especially in teaching the native language, these approaches play a significant role. Interactive methods (role plays, problem situations, group discussions) transform students from passive listeners into active participants, developing their speech culture and creative thinking abilities.

Furthermore, the use of modern information and communication technologies makes it possible to present learning materials interactively and visually, encouraging students to engage actively with the topic. This contributes to the deepening of writing and speaking skills in the native language, fostering personalized learning and the development of creative thinking.

Main Part

Through the use of advanced pedagogical technologies, modern information and communication tools, and interactive methods in education, it becomes possible to develop students’ speech culture, independent thinking, and creativity. The main tasks in this process include stimulating verbal activity, strengthening analytical thinking, and supporting creativity. This encourages students to learn actively, express their opinions freely, think critically, and find creative solutions.

One of the urgent issues today is improving the quality of education and providing students with effective learning. To achieve this, teachers are required to use interactive methods appropriately and arouse learners’ interest. At the same time, teachers must constantly work on self-development and explore new interactive techniques. An interactive method is an activity in which learners cooperate, exchange ideas, and solve problems collectively through communication and discussion. Its main advantage lies in the fact that it teaches students to think independently and prepares them for real life. Interactive methods are learner-centered approaches that activate and motivate learners to think independently. The teacher’s role is to encourage participation, while the learner remains actively engaged throughout the process.

The benefits of learner-centered approaches are as follows: Learning becomes more effective; Learners are highly motivated; Previously acquired knowledge is taken into account; The learning process is aligned with the learner’s goals and needs; Initiative and responsibility are encouraged; Learning through practice is emphasized; Two-way feedback is promoted.

Thus, the use of interactive methods in the teaching process has its own characteristics. Careful study and application of each interactive method in practice broaden students’ thinking and positively affect their ability to solve problems effectively. It increases creativity and activeness. When theoretical and practical problems are analyzed through interactive methods, students’ knowledge, skills, and competencies deepen and expand.

Interactive teaching methods can be classified as follows:1️⃣ Interactive methods: Case study, Brainstorming interview, Modeling, Creative work, Problem-based learning, etc.2️⃣ Interactive teaching strategies: Brainstorming, Boomerang, Gallery, Zigzag, Step-by-step, Snowball, Rotation, etc.3️⃣ Interactive graphic organizers: Fishbone diagram, K-W-L (BBB), Concept table, Venn diagram, T-chart, Insert, Cluster, Why?, How? And others.

In addition, organizing native language lessons based on pedagogical technologies and using interactive methods such as Pair work, Small group work, Tree solution, Incomplete sentence exercise, Wheel of fortune, Find the wrong word, Mixed information, Alphabet, Scales, Lotto, Black box, helps enhance learning effectiveness. For instance, the “Wheel of Fortune” (Charxpalak) method is designed to help students recall previous topics, think logically, answer questions independently, assess themselves, and allows the teacher to evaluate all students’ knowledge in a short time. The activity can be used at the beginning or end of the lesson, during topic reinforcement, or for formative and summative assessment. Students work in groups, receive instructions, and exchange task sheets in a circular “wheel” manner. Each group builds on the ideas of others until the topic is completed. Correct answers are scored, and total points determine achievement levels.

Conclusion

The use of interactive and innovative methods in the educational process plays an important role in increasing students’ learning motivation, developing independent thinking skills, and enabling them to express their opinions freely.

Such methods Yo‘ldoshev, J.G. Ta’limda interfaol metodlar. – Toshkent: “O‘qituvchi”, 2019.  Mehmonov, M.H  Yangi Oʻzbekiston pedagoglari  axborotnomasi “Interfaol metodlar va ularning ta’ lim jarayonidagi mohiyati”. – Toshkent:, 2023. Azizxo‘jayeva, N.N. Pedagogik texnologiyalar va pedagogik mahorat. –       Toshkent: TDPU, 2020. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ona-tili-darslarida-innovatsiontexnologiyalar-asosida-mustaqil-ishlarni-tashkil-etish. Turemuratova, Aziza, Rita Kurbanova, and Barno Saidboyeva. “EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS IN SHAPING THE WORLDVIEW OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN FOLK PEDAGOGY.” Modern Science and Research 2.10 (2023): 318-322. Xamrakulova, B.A O‘zbekiston davlat jahon tillari universiteti, “ Til o‘rganishda kommunikativ va pragmatik kompensatsiya startegiyalarining ahamiyati”. – Tashkent, O‘zbekiston    

VIOLIN

Rehearsing a melody

A radiant young teenager,

dressed up in her room,

practicing her violin.

And so, appearing at a concert,

to which she was invited, the teenager

is a self-confident person.

That she doesn’t give up easily,

since the instrument requires practice

to achieve her goal is a fact, in fact,

she has even become a popular artist,

making music her main theme.

When listening to her, you could notice

the emotions of the audience

as the young woman stood

on stage and won over

everyone present,

thanks to the violin as

the main instrument

or supporting character

in the performance, the violin

is poised to become the star of the evening,

and the young woman is the most notable

for having used the violin as an instrument in recent times.

Nidia Amelia García, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a writer and an active member of Juntos por las Letras (Together for Letters). She has participated in numerous virtual events in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Spain, Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and elsewhere. She has also contributed to literary anthologies such as “Books of the Immortals” and “Anthology of the 50 Poets of the World 2022.”

Emily as Men of Science Waste Their Lives

No matter the reward

of knowing,

the incredible things

can only nurse us

when they’re in

our mouths.

I cannot chorus

with any other man.

I’m busy, with Emily.

Emily as a Suit of Gold

Whenever

I’m given

an opportunity

to wear Emily

I am to be

witnessed

& remembered

for the excess

of her love.

Emily as an Owl in the Morning

The light is staggering,

but she can still see me

even when I hide from her.

Soft whispers in the darkest night.

A mother’s love shines like a guiding light.

A woman of pure nature, full of love’s might.

Thinking, speaking, in affection’s delight.

Her heart is as deep as the heavens above.

Filled with feelings and love.

A labour of endless love.

Mother, a colorful phenomenon, magical and bright.

A faultless projection of paradise, a wondrous sight.

As the Quran says, “Show gratitude to Me and to your parents dear” (31:14).

And the Prophet’s words, “Paradise lies at the feet of your mother”.

So dear.

She offers glassfuls of love to all.

A nurturing spirit that stands tall.

With a heart full of affection, she guides us through life.

A mother’s love, a precious gift, a treasure so bright.

She’s a multi-dimensional mirror, reflecting divine beauty, rare.

A reliable blessing for humanity, beyond compare.

In her presence, hearts find peace and rest.

A mother’s love, forever etched in our breasts.

So let’s cherish and honour our mothers with glee.

For their love and care, are blessings to you and I.

Hassan Musa Dakasku, is a Nigerian writer, a passionate advocate for youth well-being and a performance poet, He is an author based on vulnerability and of a personal blog.