Milestones

But where are you these days? You got flu or something? I dont see you around here much. If you are sick i hope you get well soon and if you are on a vacation, taking some time off then-enjoy!

No comments on two posts, I will wait till you are back.

To urstruly,

here is a news from the `silicon valley` about a BBBS of india,

Software engineer, parents held for dowry harassment

DH News Service

BANGALORE, Dec 9

Hanumanthnagar police have arrested a software engineer, his father, a practicing advocate and his mother on charges of torturing his wife for dowry.

Police said B R Hemanth Kumar married K B Madhumathi, daughter of City-based advocate K Basavaraju, during December last year after allegedly taking gold ornaments and cash as dowry.

After marriage, Hemanth Kumar, his mother Ambuja, father Rajashekar, a retired principal of SJRC Law College and presently a practicing advocate before the High Court, were reportedly harassing Madhumathi forcing her to get a bungalow at Sadashivanagar and a car from her father, the police said.

Later, Hemanth took his wife to the US where he is employed and continued to torture her, the police added. Madhumathi ran away from her husbands house in the US and came to her parentshouse here on December 2. She was treated at Victoria hospital here for injuries which she sustained when her husband was torturing her.

To urstruly,

You can call them by any name, they are there every where. In most cases it is a trnsitory phase, till the parents organise the arranged marriage, after which they are mamas boys, usually the perpetrators of dowry deaths.

It is notable that dowry deaths happen with baba black sheeps, not in the villages. The idiotic epochal events reffered in the articles, disorient the BBBS, devoid them of any values and dowry becomes the easy means to get the `western` wealth.

regards

jay

Good attempt at philosophic analysis.

We can`t blame the `infernal`market for the perceived wrongs.It is the market which has produced the sea-change in human life over the last 50 years otherwise the world would have remained mired in poverty of body/soul,bigotry par excellence,fight against the change/laws of nature examplified by the current south asia,some bright spots notwithstanding.

Do not blame the media.As the leading compeer of Fox tv O`Reilly put it,``the tv also need to make their buck``.That is where the buck stops!

Jay

Goddamn!

You just dropped an anvil over my head, I didn`t know that you had BaBa Black Sheeps too. I always thought that there are only ``Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars`` on your side.

Goddamn!

Why blame the media - afterall they just seem to be doing their job.

If anyone is to blame - it is the gullible public ready to lap up any&everything inorder to spice up their ``piddling`` lives (mine included : ))

rgds-

DEATH OF REASON,

Yet another tragic case of a baba black sheep, getting a total brain transplant. What epochal events, water gate, death of princess diana, death of kennedy, some crap about ben johnson...

events that leave indelible marks in the minds of the south asians, the mile stones in the uneventful lives of the educated, the pegs on which the dreary lives of the south asians are hung from. The author definitely has a wierd sense of humour.

Of course those events I remember, they changed my life for ever. No I will always remeber this day, when a baba black sheep hit the bottom.

May be people are more clever now and don`t want to accept what media wants to impose on them.

It is fun to have O.J Simpson, and Elian Gonzales.

Rather than a repeat war on Iraq in the name of God (sorry slip of tongue in the name of democracy and free speech). Or one sided Palestinian Israeli saga.

To get a more accurate picture I visit BBC and other sites rather than monolithic CNN.

The current Florida Countdown depicts the biases of American media in full.

Fun, fun and fun. Viewers viewrs viewers. Advertisement, advertisement, advertisement. That is American media.

Yes, according to the well-established, and accepted, functional theory of conflict. [re. Coser, Functions of Social Conflict]. EXCEPT, in the case of Pakistan, the proverbial exception that proves the law.

J. Saleem

Raywat, Welcome to the Chowk!

``Even a thing as centrally disgusting and life-focussing as war has been tainted by the video generation, its horrors and social implications --its ability to truly anchor itself in our memories and thus affect the evolution of our society-- diluted by a blatant consumerism and rampant superficiality.``

Now, now, would you rather go back to the good old days when wars were simply propagated as Good (us of course) versus Evil? Yes, CNN was commercially motivated during the Gulf War but can you come up with one other instance in history where the view from the `other` side was presented even half as impartially as on CNN? Remember, popular opposition against the US involvement in Vietnam didn`t only started when their GIs started coming home in body bags. Before then it was simply a necessary war against the evil Commies.

Blatant consumerism and rampant superficiality just might be the price we pay for retaining our freedoms. Is it all worth it? Well... to each his own answer.

regards,

Dear Raywat:

Good writing skills! Your piece reminded my of Guy Debord and his ``The Society of the Spectacle.``

Sincerely, Bilal Ahmad