Chowk Tales I

WHAT A JOKE?

IN REPLY TO RAVEN OOPS REAVEN

Let me answer your childish comments categorically. No:1 YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT TWO NATION THEORY AT THE TIME WAS RIGHT. BUT NOW IT IS GONNA BE 8/10 NATION THEORY, BECAUSE INDIA IS SOON GONNA BE DIVIDED FURTHER, NIXELS, TAMILS, KHALASTAN, GREATER BENGAL, KASHMIR, AND MEZORAM, FREE SUKKUM AND FREE MUSLIM INDIA. SO YOU ARE RIGHT THAT IT IS IN OUR INTEREST TO SEE ALL THESE NATIONS FREE OF INDIAN OCCUPATION.

2. You seem pretty nervous about ‘BABRI MOSQUE’ AND ‘GOLDEN TEMPLE’. You did not answer me on those two GREAT DEMOCRATIC VALUES.THAT IS THE WAY INDIA RESPECTS, HONOURS AND FULLY RECOGNISES ALL RELIGIONS. HOW ABOUT THAT AUSTRAILIAN PRIEST AND HIS FAMILY WHO WERE BURNT TO DEATH JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WERE. HOW ABOUT IN THIS GREAT DEMOCRACY THE MASS KILLINGS OF UNTOUCHBALES EVERY DAY. YOU KILL YOUR OWN PEOPLE CALLOUSLY JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE “CHOTTI JAATI KAI HAIN”. MORE POWER TO

YOU. YOU MAY DENY THIS FACT BUT DEEPDOWN IN YOUR OWN HEART YOU KNOW YOU STILL HAVE CLASSES AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE. BRAHMANS BELIEVES STRONGLY THEY ARE BORN TO RULE, VAIDS ARE BORN TO BE AIDS(actually `AIDS`) OF THE KING/RULING CLASS, KHUSHATRIA ARE BORN TO BE THE FIGHTERS (WHICH THEY ARE NOT THOUGH), AND SHOODERS ARE BORN TO BE RULED OVER. WHAT A SHAME. IS THIS DEMOCRACY OR HYPOCRACY?

3. By the way you number are concocted about murder rate in USA, I would still say that more people die because of hunger and starvation in India.

4. YOU DID NOT ANSWER ME ON THE FACT THE NUMOROUS WOMEN ARE BEING KILLED AND RAPED BY THE INDIAN ROGUE ARMY IN KASHMIR AND THE ONLY REASON NOT TO ANSWER IS BECAUSE IT IS A FACT.

5.Now as for as mention of the Orissa situation it is not the flood I am blaming in fact it is the system in India I am criticizing about. So you can guess whose vision is myopic. MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE IN TROUBLE RIGHT NOW. READ MY LIPS IT IS YOUR SYSTEM…………..

6.Your role model could be Phoolan Devi but not ours. What you think of that. If there are Laloos in other societies they are not in the assemblies, their place is in the jail, that is where they belong to.

7. YOU ARE FULL OF ………… ON ONE HAND YOU STRONGLY CRITICISE OUR SYSTEM AND MILITARY RULE, ON THE OTHER YOU APPROVE TO COPY US IN KASHMIR. SO MILITARY RULE IS FINE WITH YOU WHERE IT BENEFITS YOU OR SUITS YOU. WHAT A JOKE? TRUST ME YOU DO NOT KNOW THE HISTORY, WE DO NOT NEED TO ASK UNO BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY APPROVED. YOU GIVE THEM RIGHT OF SELF DETERMINATION AS WAS GRANTED THEM BY THE UNO.

8. YOU TALK ABOUT SO MUCH GOOD COMING OUT OF THE INDIA, YES WE READ THE WORLD MEDIA EVERYDAY ON KASHMIR AND ALL THE GOOD I HAVE MENTIONED IN THE PRECEEDING PARAGRAPHS. NOW AS FOR AS MULTINATIONALS COMING TO INDIA, WATCH BUDDY, YOU ARE HAVING PART II OF EAST INDIA COMPANY. IT IS MULTINATIONALS COMING NOT INDIANS GOING MULTINATIONAL.

9. WHAT IS FORTUNATE OR UNFORTUNATE FOR US, WE KNOW VERY WELL, DON’T WORRY ABOUT US, WE KNOW HOW TO RUN OUR HOUSE AND YOU WORRY ABOUT YOURS BEFORE WE COME AND TEACH YOU TO FIX IT. NOTHING PERSONAL ALL TRUTH NOTHTING BUT TRUTH ONLY.

Haves and Have Nots ...

Scented lives that drift along:
from birth a sugared, rosy path;
pandered to and money spent,
with no thought of an aftermath.

Children brought up like this can
see nothing of the agony
of hapless souls who cannot boast
of riches beyond their parent`s scope.

Selfishly they pick the plums
dangling form life`s fruitful trees.
They merely leave the emptied
skins to their peers who despise the loss.

They will not be asked to share
the richer pickings offered once:
the spoiled ones quickly seize the chance
and simply scoff the lot.

Small wonder then
the poor ones will revolt
against the greedy ones
and demand with violent threat,
their rightful share of fruit they
need to get.

There is much that is admirable about brevity. By itself though, it is mere economy something a Baniya would be proud of, hardly the kind of stuff that could contribute to delightful reading. However, brevity when combined with pith is another animal altogether. It is what makes a shire great and what lends the charm to Haiku, the delight to a doha. Very recently I read a few stories by Manto that pull it off exceedingly well, the twist in the tale made infinitely more poignant by the succinctness with which it is told.

Unfortunately in this modern world it is a rarely practiced art. Mr. T. Chowkwalla (I am looking forward to the future efforts of Mr. Chowkwalla as well) and his use of gentle turns in the tale offered me new perspective, a whole new way for me in which to think of literature, a unique vantage from which to present a view point. Many thanks.

My salutations to Paagal. Seems the only sane person on chowk..!!

re sadna #13:

Agreed. BTW when are we going to see some contribution from you on this site?

re dL #15:

I am afraid we are both on the other side of the looking glass. And since we don`t know our destination it doesn`t really matter which road we take ;-)

later

-sac

P.S: Hope things are well in London.