Days of Rage

#50 mrs. jehangir has an easy job? protecting women from poor families from the dangar jahils in Pakistan is an easy job? Give me a break!!

EXTREMELY ONESIDED VIEW.... MRS JEHANGIR HAS AN EASY JOB ALL HER LIFE AND THAT IS TO CRITICIZE EVERY THING..

True. However, inbetween killing people and extending his dominions to feed his ego, Timur sought to be the "magnanimous king" by patronizing (i.e. by giving away part of his stolen wealth to writers and artisans) literature and arts, notably turkish and persian.

Re: # 47
Timur did not like Iranians.He slaughtered them. He was from Samarkand, Bukhara area.

naqsh #42: Before the arrival of timur, India was a great civilization. And after the departure of the mughals, India set on the road that has made it a great democracy.

Meantime timur's spiritual homeland (persia) is still bumping around between kings and maulvis.

Next question.

hey in this new version of chowk i cannot add pictures/videos to my posts with html anymore!

help!!!

Re: # 44

where have i been arrogant? ignorance i can admit.

Again you show your ignorance and arrogance

Ghaus e Aazam ba man bay-sar o saamaan madaday!
Qibla e deen madaday, Ka'aba ye eemaan madaday!

translations of the Farsi in my last 2 posts...
"Darling, I gave you my life, not my faith!"


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Before the arrival of Timur's son, what was India?
After the departure of Babar's sons, what is India?

One of my favourite quotes of the Mughals is Jahangir Badshah's comment to his wife, Nur Jehan, who was a Shia (Jahangir was a Sunni and murid of Hazrat Mujaddid e Alf e Thani): Jaan-e-man, jaan daadam, imaan na daadam!

Qabl as aamad e pisr e Timur ra, Hind che bood?
Ba'd as raft e pisr-haa-ye Babar ra, Hind cheest?

:-)

Naqsh, your knowledge of India is limited and is Mughal centric.
The forts and palaces of Rajasthan and other states are not copies of Mughal architecture most predate the Mughals. Most foreign tourists visit Rajasthan, Goa, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh where you hardly find any Mughal influence.

amansandhu,
i know india's tourist industry is vast and not jst about the taj--did i say that? but you have to admit that most people go to see the various Mughal built forts and palaces and gardens or those built in the Mughal-style by other petty and local kings and rulers. the exception is in south india i guess where the Mughal influence wasn 't as much as in the north.

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echo bhai, ba'd az salam arz hai ke aap ka post bilkal darust hai!

i love that slogan!

31 Posted by Naqshbandi on September 1, 2007 3:06:35 pm but if it wasn't for these benign 'dictators' you wouldn't have a tourist industry!!!

Naqshbandi, Indian tourist industry is not about the Taj Mahal alone. You have the palaces and forts of Rajasthan, the beautifull temples of the South, the majestic beaches of Goa, Kerala to name a few. Udaivillas, a beautifull Rajastani palace turned hotel has come out as the best hotel of the world- 2007.

lol....i just saw the lalloo prasad sa re gama, that guy is something special :) apparently he can hold a bull's horns and stand on its head ....why oh why are pakistani politicans not half as talented as him?
Lahori Mussarat kicks ass he is fantastic!!! so is Lucknow's Poonam!! ....i was really sad about harpreet and especially about the way he took it :( i posted his wonderful rendition of vaada tera vaada on UP.