Liberty Nites

i think,rehan,one falls in love just to get betrayed,isnt it so? maybe getting betrayed gives one a sort of high too.

(On a more serious note), I agree that it is more than just money. Otherwise why would the East African win marathons? Indeed, Pakistan was somewhat better at one time: In the early sixties, we had at least three medal-winning olympians. These were Raziq (hurdles), Ramzan (long jump) and Khaliq (marathon, I think). In Pakistan this lack of progress may reflect a reduced emphasis on character building and good sportsmanship. As some British peer said, battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. We could have put up a better show, I am sure, if our education system had not suffered, and a certain amount of demoralization and cynicism not set in in the country, under a series of rats who came to power over the past 3 decades.

P.S. I am not including India in the above discussion since (a) I dont know enough, and (b) am assured from certain posts on chowk on the complete perfection of everything in India. P.P.S. b) above is a joke, and not meant to offend our friends from across the border.

Rehan:

Interesting poem.

Elicited ambivalent feelings. Help me. For me the poem ended with ``Every day you betray me``.

From ``And every evening`` to ``who really wanted to eat him all along`` is an entirely different poem.

Is this really a part of a longer poem?

Some other related queries, if you do not mind. How do you write poems? In one session? Or spread over several? How many revisions go into the final version?

regards

mila gaya.

challo, acha hai. one can never be too sure about paki post..esp since there is no return address.

ive been eating a lot(relatively) of meetha paan these days and it always reminds me of the paan i had at liberty.

this time back, i think i`ll try the evenings..didnt know they could taste the way you describe them.

rizvi

Happy Birthday!

My favorite Internet site. You guys are doing an incredible service to the Desi community. I learned so much from this site. Before I felt alone the way I felt about Islam but now after being a regular visitor of this site I feel no more alone, I know there are a lot of Muslims who are good Muslims in spite of not believing what the mullahs have been teaching for centuries. I am especially thankful to one of your writers whom I do not see in your pages any more but who gave me information about another very good site which really strengthened my belief in Islam. I am also glade that I was able to find this site and got to read Shandana Minhas` work. Thanks to all the wonderful writers at Chowk. Keep up the good.

Saida

temporal #2. (This replaces my previous post which I screwed up while sending hurriedly).

I agree that if the Olympics were culturally sensitive, they would include the events you list to show their talents. I would therefore not stop with ten events geared to give South Asians a chance. Here are the next ten which would cause gold medals to be showered upon our South Asian Jawans:

1. Discuss Throw: The aim being to continue to discuss and argue after competition has dropped out from exhaustion.

2. 100 meters freestyle: The one who reaches the airport ticket counter first, having broken through the line and pushed aside weaker opponents, wins. Those pushing aside women with children get special mention.

3. Long distance marathon: The aim being to steal money and run as far away as possible. The race starts in Islamabad, and the finish lines are at either London (for silver medal) or New York (for gold medal) airports.

4. Ach-thu: (Exotic name, like jiu-jitsu, for a local sport) Largest volume of spit delivered on other guy`s face (or religion, or ethnicity, or whatever else you think the other guy considers personal business). Contenders from India and Pakistan, having been well trained on internet, are expected to make a clean sweep.

5-10. Gotta go: Fail to live up to word (I win this one, since I got to attend to some unimportant business now, and so must stop at 4).

i think what fasciantes me about your work (poetry) is the thought process and the way the words just pull at me..or more the arrangement of the words.

i like work that i can re-read and never find to be the same.

i have yet to formulate for myself, what it is about your poetry that attracts me.

rizvi

You sound like the psyco-guy from the Red-meat comics (www.redmeat.com).