KARACHI – Reacting strongly to the directive by the court to start conducting the CSS exams in Urdu, noted artist and dancer Sheema Kirmani has demanded that the elite examinations should be conducted instead in the universal language of dance.
“We have been making these demands since long,” she said, at a press conference. “English is a language that many in the country don’t understand and limits entry into the premiere services to an elite.”
“But what many forget is that even Urdu isn’t the mother tongue of most of the country. What about Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Seraiki, Hindko and a host of other languages? So there is a limitation there as well,” she continued.
“So it is best to set the universal language of dance as the medium for these exams,” she said. “It is going to even the playing field for all the people in the country, because to understand dance, all you need is a soul,” she said.
“I have recorded videos of my attempting two questions each from two Elective Subjects,” she said, referring to her dances playing on a projector behind her. “In these videos, I am answering questions from European History and Mohammedan Law.”
When asked how those who have chosen Statistics as a subject can answer in dance, she snapped back, “Of course, it can be attempted! Step back and let me show you how I can represent a Negative Binomial Distribution with an Expected Value of 70.6 and a Standard Deviation of 3.4 through the beautiful and universal language of dance.”
She had to be carried on a stretcher to Abbassi Shaheed Hospital when she pulled several muscles in the above exercise.
