Worlds Apart Re: # 32

There you have it then, neembu! A counter to this article which is so bollywoodish etc. Don`t you want a TRUE representative sample rather than a deluge of bad endings selected just because they are bad endings? And that right there is the diagnosis of your psychosis. You have been unable to learn lessons from bollywoodish endings because, one, you don`t have the proper training to approach these subjects; second, you have become too emotionally involved with the worst of these stories too close to home.

A symptom of this psychosis is that you want to shoot down any happy ending, however true or frequent it might be.

Worlds Apart Re: # 22

`a piece that offered us very little in self examination, revelation`

neembu,

Wasn`t there any exercise of self examination for you? Wasn`t it revelatory?*

As for `conflict`, wasn`t the last line poignant (note the italics) trivializing all the `stretched out` conflict earlier on? Does that hurt you sweetie?

*As much as you might see the ending as encouraging spouses to stay in difficult marriages, the author is merely relating a true story. If you won`t even admit empirical anecdote on grounds that it counters you emotional and intuitive stereotype about desi men, then you shouldn`t be advising battered spouses..

Worlds Apart Re: # 6

neembu,

Why are you unhappy with other people`s Bollywood happiness?

Allama Iqbal and His Women Re: # 17

neembu,

Kindly post your response without that assumption.

Allama Iqbal and His Women Brother echoboom,

Could you email this tortuous piece to President Khatami just as he tortured us with his long winded schpiel about Iqbal?

Allama Iqbal and His Women Re: # 14

Let`s agree that evidence about Sardar Begum having fun is very thin and the evidence about Iqbal having fun is also very thin.

Let`s also agree that even if Sardar Begum was a playa`, its all good and if Iqbal was a drinker, it all good!

However, neembu.. you can never know how great of a poet he was. Lousy philosopher but great, great poet.

Worlds Apart Re: # 4

neembu,

why are you so unhappy with other people`s happiness?

Daughters of Hajar Re: # 21

hehe. zeemax typical runDi fashion all giggly thinking sex things. hehe

Blue Line Mary Amp rocks!

She has such a rock n roll feel about her.. dunno what it is..

Month of the Gun Re: # 27

`I was a personal witness to all the terrible hue and cry he has so dramatically put down here in this silly little letter of his (I spend a lot of time with him and Junoon in the early `90s).`

So yet again paracha was a `personal` witness to some BS that he is unable to give direct account of.. and derails into some deep seated angst.

It must hurt to be talentless while being surrounded by celebrity and talent and still be irrelevant..

Also the logic of `if MQM is fascist, so is 70% of Karachi` is best answered by Stanley Milgram`s attempts to find something wrong in the German people by his social psycological experiments in the 60s.

Just a Woman Re: # 98

zahra,

That is like the 10th time you have used the word `sweet` when it is not warranted lately! Are you looking for a shohar by showcasing your `non-sultaan-raahi` side?

kaka is impressed already.. May you be blessed with a shohar!

Blue Line Re: # 4

Other great lines too:

`that their baby, a person closer than close, an embryonic cell, an extension of themselves; is suddenly laden with a burden of her own?` (nice detour thru the tunnel and then loopback).

`The box lies in its own pool of light, wearing its halo of innocence` (like the wearing of a robe by a `blameless` judge who judged you pregnant).

kaka wonders if any pregnant girl ever feel this way.. or are these just wordsmithing?

Splinter Re: # 9

`#9 by echoboom on May 24, 2007 4:55am PT

Looks like the KanjarR class of Pakiland is trying to rear its ugly head here.

They must be exposed & demoralised so that they do not spread their westoxicated toxic-waste among muslim women.

Get lost .

Go back to your white-trash trailer-boy scum.`

Brother Boom,

What exactly is the issue here? Pakistani girl should not marry white guy? Muslim girl should not marry white guy? What about the other way around?

Brother, use this board to articulate your concerns in non-cliched terms, since there is no other discussion about this article..

PS. Tazeen moTo, are you envious to see love in this article?!

Militant Liberalism Re: # 307

zeena is already hooked up with a mountain goat in hazara. This was a reward by her local panchayat for her grandmother getting a PhD in mathematics and seeking to improve zeena`s DNA by hooking her up with a goat..

Citizenship and Identity in Pakistan `Before the British colonised the subcontinent, the people of this region existed in overlapping sets of multiple identities, where contending sovereignty of identity groups was negotiated and power was shared at several levels.`

Yes, among many overlapping multiple identities, there were those of serfs and lords, aaqaa and ghulaam, slave and slave owner, sultan and awaam.

It was a shame that the british introduced democracy and freedom to protest to the mix..

Rahul Gandhi\'s Election Campaign kaka has always maintained that democracy in India is really a joke that Indians themselves don`t get..

This is one idiotic article BTW.