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Welcome to the 21st Century

Sameena Iqbal July 14, 2004

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#4 Posted by veeresh on July 15, 2004 12:40:52 am
If this is a ramble on what chowk.com will be like a few decades from now, well, you arer welcome to your views and analysis.

If this is a reflection on desi kids being brought up ``in foreign``, then, well, each case is different. Increasingly, I think, children need to be brought as world citizens, and not as throw-backs to something their parents may have wanted to be.

If this is a brief on what it is like growing up ``in foreign``, I guess you should be doing fine as long as your desi non-resident parents didn`t stuff down your throat with the morning cornflakes the threat that ``you should be glad you were not born/brought up in India / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Afghanistan . . . ``

The Chowk will always be what its constituents make it to be. Nature will try to keep the bigots and fundoos out, though.
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#3 Posted by Garam_Chai on July 14, 2004 9:00:31 pm
Sameena
I think chnage is an essential element of our universe.
Dessies are changing in America just like they are changing back in pakistan. I believe the rate of change is quite close, because it is not bound by the man-made boundries. I think that we are converging to single point with the passage of time. It is like water flow from higher potential energy to lower potential energy, and after some time water stops flowing because of same energy level.It is going to be, what it is to be.

Which category you fall in, half abcd, half fob, or x_abcd where x could be zero to hundred percent?
Enjoyed reading!!

Regards.

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#2 Posted by nikki7777 on July 14, 2004 6:21:21 pm
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#1 Posted by Niagara on July 14, 2004 4:50:39 pm
I fail to understand how disasters like this make it to the front page. I did not get the point of this article, nor was it written well and if you know you are generalizing and if you know it`s not the complete truth - then please, refrain.
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