Wall chalking: Bad reflection of our culture

This article aims to shed light on the issue of wall chalking in Pakistan. Research has been carried out to know whether wall chalking helps in creating awareness of different things people or not. It can be gathered that 60% of the general public think that wall chalking is a way of creating awareness and the other 40% think that it’s not the tool for creating awareness. Pakistanis basically indulges in wall chalking due to lack of platforms for them to express their emotions, combined with a lack of awareness. Advertisements are done through wall chalking to avoid the expense, and the government cannot root out the problem since it itself consists of political parties largely involved in wall chalking for political purposes. There are laws against wall chalking and illegal.

Most of the people agree that it is a heinous activity that destroys the beauty of the city to a great extent yet we see that the city’s walls are filled with all kinds of wall chalking. Hence, everyone would like to see this source of ugliness vanished but does not know what to do since our government is also not taking any hard action against this issue. And these are the people who think that wall chalking is not the best way of creating awareness.

Wall chalking is one activity that has rendered almost every boundary wall of streets. The outcome of wall paintings, chalking and sprayings is an overall increase in pollution. When this exercise is undertaken with some reference to artistic considerations, it reflects the creativity of the people in a certain context. When unrestrained tarnishing of built surfaces is done, it displays the inherent conflict, contradiction and confusion among the various classes in society.

In modern times, paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials.. Wall Chalking may also express social and political messages.

An example of things written on walls:

“Zaroori hay zaroori hay, Mahajir sooba zaroori hay”

“Koi dekhay na dekhay shabeer tw dekhega”

“Ek se barh kar ek zaleel, amreeka aur israeel”

“Dunia ka pehla Perfume Chowk, khushboo sub k liye” etc etc etc…

Yes, you can find out these kind of chalking everywhere in Lahore.

Even the political parties find wall chalking a source of awareness for public.

 “Chalo Chalo Nishtar Park Chalo” or “Amreeka ka jo yaar hay, ghaddar hay ghaddar”. Many unethical things are often posted on walls which are not acceptable at all. We aren’t among those nations who keep on spending their money over institutes and universities or colleges, but that nation who already is literate and educated enough to write on the notebooks, but on the walls so that each and everyone get a benefit of whatever one has learnt.

Wall chalking is a tool which is often used by people for creating awareness of different thing because it’s the cheap way of advertisement.

This method is mostly used by lower class or middle class people. During the survey carried out on wall chalking people said that it is a tool for awareness but it’s the wrong tool of creating awareness. Educated people say that wall chalking must be stopped and a more educated Pakistan must be established.

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Seerat Mughal 

Sec F