Just a Woman

#112 Ms. Ana

Kindly do not make light of my very real, sincere, and warm regards for you - of which I have never made any secret over the past two years, if only in my own peculiar way.

I am not now nor ever have been patronizing to you in this nick or any other! In fact, if I remember accurately, it was YOU who once assumed that particular attitude by trying to impress simple janitorial people with your vast knowledge of the Spanish language.

I am sure you will reconsider your positions on such matters by the time you make your next visit to these hallowed halls of chowk...

...perhaps sometime within the next six months, based on your recent track record?!

Thank you.

And if you have decided to grace us with your visits on a more frequent basis - let me take the opportunity to say - welcome back home!

#113 (add-on)

A side issue, I hope you had an opportunity to read my i-log Star over Bethlehem, (especially its footnote) which was posted on December 25, 2006.

Do let me know if you missed it - so I can repost it on my interactor`s page.

Thank you.

#37 Hamidm2

[ please feel free to post all the ...pictures you want ]

Sorry, my dear - an onslaught of janitorial duties made me overlook your post. As always, your wish must be considered my command. However, since a picture is worth a thousand words (or so) - I would like to instead post the following recent news item which ought to invigorate, stimulate, and perhaps even titillate you! :)

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A new, global tribute to Gandhi
5 Jun, 2007 l 0045 hrs IST
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
NEW DELHI: Brand Gandhi is about to get bigger on the global stage. As many as 114 UN member-countries joined hands on Monday to support India`s resolution to declare Mahatma Gandhi`s birthday on October 2 as the `International Day of Non-Violence`.

The move to get the international community to pay tribute to Gandhi`s ideology was a follow-up to the Satyagraha conference organised by the Congress early this year and a subsequent campaign launched by the government.

Speaking at the conference, titled ‘Peace, Non-Violence and Empowerment — Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century’, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had called for steps to get the Mahatma’s birthday marked as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Anand Sharma, minister of state for external affairs who was Sonia’s point person for the conference, welcomed the outpouring of global support to the campaign. ‘‘It’s great to see the global response to the declaration adopted at the Satyagraha conference.’’

Sharma, who was confident that the resolution would be adopted at the UN, said it also reflected the respect Gandhi commands universally and the enduring relevance of his philosophy.

After a resolution was adopted at the Satyagraha meet, Sonia wrote to UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon requesting him to make it a UN declaration. It was followed up by a similar request by PM Manmohan Singh to the UN chief and letters by the two to president of UN General Assembly Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa.

Singh and Sonia also wrote to several world leaders, including Nelson Mandela, British PM Tony Blair, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Spain’s PM Jose Luis Rodriguez and South African President Thabo Mbeki to secure support.

Beejay,

If I failed to do so the other time, let me make myself clear: If I enjoy using my Spanish with those who speak Spanish, it should not be taken as patronizing to those of you who do not speak it. It is no different from us speaking our languages to one another in the presence of those who do not understand NOT because we are taking on a patronizing attitude, but because we are comfortable with it.

And if you have forgotten, let me remind you. I go by ana here. Not Ms. Ana, not lady, or anything else. If I wanted to be addressed in any other way, I would have indicated that by my nick here. No one else may think so when you address them as Ms. whoever, but I do find your constant use of that patronizing, especially when I have asked you before to refrain from doing so.

I have never really left Chowk, but thanks for the welcome all the same. It is healthier not to grace my presence here on a continual basis.

#116 Ana

Ms. Ana, I use terms like ``Ms.`` and ``Ma`m`` as terms of respect. It is true that in the past I have called you with the more informal ``Ana``. However, that was then - when you were a regular denizen of this here insane asylum! :)

Since then, you have made a firm decision to absent yourself except for guest appearances - like the current one. Therefore, it is only fair that you should be accorded all the courtesies due a guest! I hope you understand.

More important, I need to know your response to #114.

Thank you.

`#115 by bjkumar on June 4, 2007 7:31pm PT
A new, global tribute to Gandhi `

OUCH!!!! praising gandhi on the thread of mrs. wanna be jinnah.

bj, you are in for some serious verbal diarrhea on gandhi and jinnah from the husband wife combo. don`t tell me u weren`t warned!!!!!

#118 Devkant

Jo kahee gayee na mujh se
Wo zamana - keh raha hai
Ki fasana - ban gayee hai
Meri baat - chalte, chalte!

`#119 by bjkumar on June 4, 2007 8:40pm PT
Jo kahee gayee na mujh se
Wo zamana - keh raha hai
Ki fasana - ban gayee hai
Meri baat - chalte, chalte! `

wah ustad wah....kya baat kahi hai. aaj ka din ban gaya!!!!!!

Re: # 112

Hehehehe...bihari ke le li. Go back to UP, beej. Nobody wuvs you here!

#121

My dear, do not get too impressed or unduly influenced by the antics of either Ana or `Zana acts! :)

I need all the supporters I can salvage from this crowd!

So, before you become a dal-badloo - remember, who REALLY loves you!

And don`t worry about Ana - she is ``immune`` to my ``charms``!

After all, I am....

...Just A Man!

(I KNEW there was a way to tie this above gobble-d-gook to the topic at hand!) :) :)

I am a bit surprised that some people want us to accept things about Gandhi when this article has nothing to do with the freak.

I mean surely if Gandhi is such a great guy... YLH or AFS accepting him as such or nor accepting him as such shouldn`t matter...

PS: I suppose the global tribute is global because Sonia Gandhi is italian.

The subcontinent has a long way to go before men stop seeing women as sex objects. Due to social norms and restrictions which forbid familiarity between the sexes, the average male is usually so frustrated that proximity to a member of the opposite sex often brings out the libidinous in him. For now it is the woman has to be careful how she dresses and moves so as not to attract unwarranted attention form the male species.

#125

that has got to be the biggest bakwaas i have heard in a long time. since when did dressing in shalwar kameez dupatta or churidaar pijama kurta dupatta stop being a ``careful`` way of dressing? Women get chased on the street, men treat a dupatta as if it were nothing. It is not just the woman who has to be careful for now social norms and restrictions and what not. . .women who behave properly with decorum get chased on the street.

Re: # 126
That is exactly the point, in the South Asian communities, a woman cannot be too careful about these thingsl