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Color-Blind Love

Feroz Qutabshahi April 3, 2008

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#193 Posted by zeemax on April 6, 2008 12:26:41 am
... complex things in simple clownish terms!
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#192 Posted by zeemax on April 6, 2008 12:24:34 am
#190 Posted by dost_mittar,

I agree re ahmedmadni Ji. He's one of the most original posters with a lot of depth and the ability to translate complex things in simple terms. But he can be very difficult to read. I wish he would use more punctuations, and paras, so readers don't run out of breath :)
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#191 Posted by dost_mittar on April 6, 2008 12:17:51 am
nb:

I am somewhat surprised about your questions about head-covering. Surely, you know that we desis do not apply the same standards to goras (I am avoiding the use of the term "white" to avoid semantics) as we do to desis. In any case, the only place where covering head is almost mandatory in Pakistan is the NWFP.
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#190 Posted by dost_mittar on April 6, 2008 12:09:07 am
akcheema#61:

" There is some level of innocence and sincerity in how you put your views forward.....I just can't stop laughing though!!"

Cheemaji, appearances can be deceptive, especially at chowk. Madaniji is one of the brightest, knowledgeable and original posters at chowk. He has assumed the pesonna of an ignorant, prejudiced Pakistani (he is probably neither) to fool the innocent.

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#189 Posted by akcheema on April 5, 2008 10:22:29 pm
Re: # 188; madani sahib,

No worries at all, sir.

If I was thought to be disrespectful to you before, I apologise profusely; I didn't know you and there are a lot of posers here like this peon character etc.

Do feel free to contact me if there is anything at all I can do to help sir; either on or off line.

My regards and Khuda Hafiz for now


Khuda Hafiz
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#188 Posted by ahmedmadani on April 5, 2008 9:46:55 pm
Re: # 176

Thanks I will look at place mentioned.
I remember most bandishes but I forget as suffer from mental depression of mild degree and sometime more. I wrote one indian doctor of mentalhealth ( earlier they use to call them mad doctor)and he suggested things and I told local doctor and he felt good suggestion ,it helped. But here people are over smart and call him bad names( Shrink or some thing like that).This is good place as I get good info and chance to interact with not only educated but with wisdom.Sure there are lots of over educated fools but they got immigration to usa,they have edge. But here people are mostly good.
Thanks for giving suggestion.

(Now little technical This bihag and Maru Bihag are not same quite different. Only ragas little less distinct and I can get confused is Bhoop and Bhathier.)

Mr. T always critic me as I was first to Understand M.Asadi and support and second his ideas,so peoplelike peonofwest etc donot like me. I never criticise any body even they call me MAD"ni".
good day.
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#187 Posted by Regard on April 5, 2008 9:26:38 pm

Man gets 2-year jail for calling wife 'black'
6 Apr 2008, 0046 hrs IST,Dhananjay Mahapatra,TNN

NEW DELHI: For a society often seen to reflect a deeply ingrained bias for "fair skin", a Supreme Court ruling sentencing a man to two years in jail for driving his wife to suicide following taunts over her "dark" complexion will serve as both a warning and a mirror to its uglier traits.

The apex court was firm that ridiculing a wife by calling her "black" amounted to severe mental torture.

It rejected the husband's plea that mere remarks about his spouse's complexion could not be taken into consideration as they did not amount to mental torture and that therefore, the conclusion that this drove her to commit suicide was erroneous.

The court said derogatory and contemptuous remarks about a woman's dark complexion, which could be worse than physical torture for a sensitive person, caused enough mental trauma to drive the accused's wife to take the extreme step.

The order from a Bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and J M Panchal for the first time marks a new sensitivity towards a form of discrimination that has been so common that it is not even considered as out of the ordinary.

While the court and legislature have acted against caste-based and, lately against gender-based prejudices, the colour handicap had not engaged its attention so far.

In the facts of the case, Syed Fathima, within two months of her marriage to Farook Batcha in August 1999, got so distressed with the constant quarrels in her matrimonial home because of her dark complexion that she finally decided to end her life by pouring kerosene and setting herself on fire.

In her dying declaration, she said that since her complexion was dark, her husband did not like her and there were frequent quarrels. A day after giving the statement, she died in hospital.

A Madurai sessions court as well as Madras High Court found the husband guilty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (cruelty to women in matrimonial home) and sentenced him to two years imprisonment.

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#186 Posted by akcheema on April 5, 2008 9:22:40 pm
Re: # 185 correction

...answer my question...
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#185 Posted by akcheema on April 5, 2008 9:21:30 pm
Re: # 183; Tahir

you didn't ask my question. I repeat; where do YOU live my idiotic friend?

Why are you dishing out advice so patronisingly to others? Or is it some personal experience as I referred to before?

Now call for help from zee or his dog; I am off

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#184 Posted by nb on April 5, 2008 9:21:16 pm
Re: # 172
Thank you, hp, it may surprise you but that is just what I meant. I would have thought most people did do it.
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#183 Posted by tahir on April 5, 2008 9:18:08 pm
Re: # 151
Dear Treetop,

Before someone asks you to go climb a pole, let me ask you to kill all perversion right here (no..no.. I don't mean CHOWK!) before you marry and God bestows upon you a beautiful daughter.

Now put that King James version aside in favour of guidance.

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#182 Posted by akcheema on April 5, 2008 9:16:08 pm
Re: # 181; Tahir

I am 36 years old, not that it is any of your business

now "poochhal dabao aur bhaago"

Khuda Hafiz for now
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#181 Posted by tahir on April 5, 2008 9:11:19 pm
Re: # 178
Sir-Jinn Cheema,

"I have been happily married for 11 years..."

But how could you be at age seventeen, unless it was a child-marriage? Keep your children away from CHOWK, if you have any.

If one's faith (real practise, not just verbal profession) is what you call 'poonchal', yes I do mind lower animals stepping on it.

Whenever you feel I'm ignoring you, I'm being productive elsewhere. Any more questions little brother?

Peace.
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#180 Posted by akcheema on April 5, 2008 9:10:20 pm
Re: # 179; Tahir

where do YOU live my friend?
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#179 Posted by tahir on April 5, 2008 9:03:45 pm
Re: # 145
Yeh aap phir say kaisi baataiN kar rahay haiN Zee sahib?

Mr. Ahmed Deedat has pointed all these abnormalities in the King James version quite well.

Leave them alone to live on the spiritual-moral fault-line. The activation of the fault-line will destroy the City of Lost Angels and the City of Gays and Bays.
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#178 Posted by akcheema on April 5, 2008 8:59:08 pm
Re: # 177; Tahir

I hope you caught up with my replies to your posts; Nos are 78/79 and 81

Enjoy
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