Shehnai Wails

urstruly,

............. the people of fata are not citizens of pakistan, they are lawless brigands and it is about time somone whopped their sorry arses into shape ....... the myth of the noble savage is sheer nonsense ............. and as much as i dislike army rule in the rest of the country i think it has a role to play in the so-called frontier......... the indian army took care of their tribal idiots fifty years ago and most hindoos now walk upright instead of scrambling on all fours in and out of caves.............. you are more than welcome to join your peer and murshid, mr bin ladin, and his followers in a spider-hole in waziristan - what are you doing in flint?......... waiting to star in the next michael moore movie?

.................. get real!

.............. as for temporal`s poem ..... what can i say ?????......... i am sure his kids love him and post his poems in their cubes at work and their co-workers read them and say, ``oh, so cute .... your father is so talented!``

beautifully understated..

urstruly: yes shehnai has many connotations…am not restricting it to ‘our’ culture…flute can have resonance with rome’s nero as well as the meadow’s shepherd..

you write I appreciate your concern for the loss of american lives in the name of democracy and oil in iraq but I think the context here is misplaced.

we must have read different books on goliath and david;)

on napak-faujis and occupying army we are on the same page...

sobia: admire your goddess like honesty;)…you might enjoy am no god

t,
You going the NFP way?

Shenai has deep symbolic significance in our culture. Shenai and papeeya (Cuckoo) go togather.

Modernity it seems, a la Temporal has corrupted this world.

Most obnoxious and tacky. Sir, you must be a Chowk numerdaar to get published here.

more nonsense from temporal

echo

that was very profound

Sobia bibi:
It is supposed not to be understood. A lot of people have discovered that poetry is nothing but fudged prose camaflouged as a poem. After some proper but meticulous confounding of the punctuation marks, a scrambling of Caps and italics and formatting it like transit-routes usually does the trick.

Single-piston mopeds cluttering the runways
taxiing hither thither wither
looking askance at the Control Tower
wondering aloud,
weeping silently
when O when will we be a blip
when will be a blip
on the Radar.

PS: Question not your understanding, it is the examiners who are getting tested, the judges are on trial, the discriminators who are in the dock.
It is not enough to question one`s own judgement, it is equally important to question the judgement of those marketing their judgements.

t

I apologize for taking this space but I feel obligated to thank Chowk Staff from taking that aweful thread ``Peaceful Strokes`` off from the main page. At the time when Na Pak fauj is mericlessly slaughtering its own citizens; at a time when this malignant tumor has turned on those who fed it with their own blood, how can we enjoy cricket.

It is my appeal to all Dear Pakistanis, who beleive in the sanctity of human life and care for law and order in their country to pray for those innocent human beings - women and children - who are being bombed out of existence by the very forces who were supposed to protect them; to make special prayers today at Jumma prayers. Pray that God saves us from these mindless slaves called na Pak fauj who are killing their own citizens. Pray that these filthy dogs who have pointed their guns to their own citizens die the deaths of dogs that they deserve.

The phrase ``shehnai wails`` has a very specific meaning in our culture. The phrase is specifically spoken in the context of a love or matrimonial tragedy or separation.

I appreciate your concern for the loss of american lives in the name of democracy and oil in iraq but I think the context here is misplaced.

honestly didn`t get it :-(