Moving to an Alien Land

hi simmi,
it ws good to read your account here, i wish u would continue to contribute more as i m interested in knowing australia from a sensitive viewer`s view. keep it up,
preet

How about those Pakistanis who just want to come home? I am sending the following letter to Mushy:

President General Pervez Musharraf
President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan

Dear Mr. President:

First let me commend you on how you have brilliantly steered the nation through these treacherous times. I am an American of Pakistani origin and I would like to request your action on a matter of the highest humanitarian importance. While there are many issues concerning Islam in general and Pakistan in particular, that cause my head to bow in shame, nothing is more disturbing and humiliating than the plight of innocent Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh since 1971.

Several successive Pakistani governments, from Bhutto to your own regime, have ignored this disaster. I understand the cruel pressure on the Pakistani government from indigenous people such as Punjabis and others that have blocked resolution of this rather easy problem. No one is requesting that these Pakistanis be resettled in Punjab - there is plenty of room near Karachi for them. The people of Karachi are prepared to house them, feed them, and provide necessary employment for these brethren. Saudi Arabia, in the past, had offered to fund the transportation for these hundreds of thousands of Pakistani citizens.

You had the courage to remove an inefficient and corrupt Punjabi Prime Minister and send him packing for a permanent Hajj. Once again, you can demonstrate proactive, decisive, and courageous leadership by bringing back these unfortunate Pakistanis. Do it for Allah, do it for Islam, but most of all, do it for Pakistan. I have faith in you. My next action will be to contact my Congressman and Senator, both important Republicans, to provide any help that may be necessary to assist your government in the resettlement effort.

Once this problem is solved, I would like to make suggestions concerning the plight of our Ahmedi brothers and sisters.

I thank you for your prompt attention to my request.

Sincerely yours,



Salim Ahmed Chauhan

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i liked the artikul as it was with the long long sentences without the para breaks so i would request that it be brot back again otherwise this is once more a pruf that pakistanis are subjugating indians to follow queen inglis this is chowk is it a pakistani sight or an indian sight what it is that a indian lady can not come here without getting her artikul broken up did anybody do that to tahmed32 or urstruly or if you do so to romair he will let go sabre jet f16 and 17 and 23 we demand in the name of secularism modi jinnah and topi lal pajama kaala that the original artikul be reinstated with all honour by the way what happen to that che artikul i liked it

Bhai Veer Singh`s verse often keeps buzzing in mind
``seenay khich jinhaan nay khaadhi
oh kar araam naheen behnday
nionh vaalay nainaa de vaangar
dinay-raat paye vehnday
ikko lagan laggi layi jaandi
hai tor anant unhaan di
vaslon uray muqaam na koyi
dinay raat paye kehnday``

drlokraj:
You may have some very good, if subconscious, reasons for migratng... i could name a few off the top of my head, but there are soo many possibilities that there`s really no reason.

What I find strange (and unnecassary, if I may say) is your attempt to explain migratory tendencies with references to examples from the animal kingdom-- even as you admit that man is a much more complex species.

All the examples you cite of animal migratory are (i) born of purely biological necessity (in fact, instinctive) and (ii) temporary. Migration for man is neither-- at least not planned to be either.

I don`t think it is herd instict. There are behaviours in other animals as well as human beings which are still poorly understood...e.g.salmon fish returning back against the water current to lay eggs at its place of birth, some birds comming to commit suicide in some part of north-eastern India,some people renouncing the world and becoming ascetics when they are at peak of their social/occupational position( Swami Ram Tirath,Rahul Sankritayan,Swami Viveka Nand and so many others)

Not everybody leaves his/her country for money

I don`t think it is herd instict. There are behaviours in other animals as well as human beings which are still poorly understood...e.g.salmon fish returning back against the water current to lay eggs at its place of birth, some birds comming to commit suicide in some part of north-eastern India,some people renouncing the world and becoming ascetics when they are at peak of their social/occupational position( Swami Ram Tirath,Rahul Sankritayan,Swami Viveka Nand and so many others)

Not everybody leaves his/her country for money

I don`t think it is herd instict. There are behaviours in other animals as well as human beings which are still poorly understood...e.g.salmon fish returning back against the water current to lay eggs at its place of birth, some birds comming to commit suicide in some part of north-eastern India,some people renouncing the world and becoming ascetics when they are at peak of their social/occupational position( Swami Ram Tirath,Rahul Sankritayan,Swami Viveka Nand and so many others)

Not everybody leaves his/her country for money

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re. drlokraj #9: ``...still I chose to leave my country,I dont exactly know why...``

herd instinct, maybe?

:-)

Hi Simmi,nice to see your articles on chowk.
``TURDE TURDE AA PAHUNCHE HAAN,PATAA NAHEEN KIS THAANWEN
KHAT PAAWANGAY JIS DIN AAPNA TOL SAKE PARCHHAAWAN``
this is what came to my mind few days after arriving in UK.I would often shy away from talking to my close ones back home....why did I come...was it really necessary???...well,I still dont have answers to these questions,though I try to rationalize while talking to others,because I have to defend my decision.I know why birds migrate...it is plain adaptive process of nature but you know it was not entirely applicable to me.I had regular and well paid job,stable family,home,kid going to good school...still I chose to leave my country,I dont exactly know why.Some researchers still donot believe in the simplistic adaptation to be the only cause of migration in birds...sure,there may be other factors and we humans are much more complicated than birds.Some say migration is in blood and I have started believing in that.

My only prayer to God is that he never make anyone leave his country.

Ms Waraich:

Something tells me that what you fear most is that you will imperceptibly slide into an existence of comfortable mediocirty, and forget the madness back home that so kept the blood in your arteries warm and rushing, and put the fire in your belly.

That may or may not be a valid fear. Certainly, from the latter half of the middle paragraph of your #6, it would seem that you have everything to live (and die) for back home in India.

Some advice from someone who has actually followed it: Trust your instincts in this case. But also realize that there is probably something of value-- something you can take back with you-- to be gained from your experience(s) abroad. Treat it like the work vacation is was meant to be. :-)

If by the end of June you find you don`t find the idea of staying on so distasteful, well, don;t be afraid (now or then)-- simply accpet that change -- even to your personality is what life and experiences are all about. Accept that being a different person isn`t necessarily a bad thing.

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