Skins On Sale

Amar Jaleel April 19, 2007

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#3 Posted by Muhiyal on April 21, 2007 9:30:55 am

A really nice story.

Amar Sahib, Welcome to Chowk. I would like to apologise for one aspect of this place in advance, before any mud slinging catches you unawares-

For every sort of skin there are many passionate admirers on the message boards of Chowk.

To complicate matters, in many cases the skin seems visible only to the ones seeing and not the ones supposedly wearing it.

It naturally follows that regardless of what skin one wears there is someone else here seemingly eager to rip it off, or rather replace it with one that suits the viewer’s perspective!

Here, anyone talking of shared cultures or of even reaching out to the sane ones across any divide will in someone’s eyes be wearing the skin of a traitor- without his or her even realizing it!

Similarly, anyone talking of merely having some honourable space for his or her sub-culture within one`s own country will, to some, be seen as wearing the skin of a separatist!

However, there is more to Chowk than all the misused freedom on its message boards. I hope you will stay around to offer more such beautiful stories, and manage to successfully resist seeing your own skin through the filters of others (and also not let anyone get under it :-))

Thank you again and may your tribe only grow!