The Wrong Mix

#65 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:31:29 am

Re: # 63;tahmed

when????????

I never said a word about bangladeshis before!!!!

#64 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:31:14 am

#62 you ask "who would invite bangladeshis to tea?", sir? Bangladesh is where they invented tea (almost..except for those blessed chinese who seemed to have invented everything).

#63 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:29:04 am

OK. not condemned, but "cast vague negative aspersions about". same thing, basically.

#62 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:28:47 am

Re: # 60; tahmed

I never condemned bangladeshis; fair dos I don't invite them around for tea willy nilly but then who would...

#61 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:27:32 am

Re: # 59

...condemned...

#60 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:27:23 am

bangladeshi, doctor sahib.

#59 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:26:24 am

Re: # 58; tahmed

which community have I condemmed now sir?

#58 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:25:18 am

#57 cheema sahib: never condemn an entire community of people, sir. because then you are, sure as God made little green apples, wrong.

#57 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:23:43 am

Re: # 54; tahmed

and the peon might have set you right on bangladeshis too; I think I know what he was on about...

#56 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:22:57 am

#55 cheema sahib: as peon sahib would say, are you calling art nonsense, sahib?

#55 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:21:11 am

Re: # 53

its good to appreciate all this non-sense once in a while to stock up on some self-worth; but let us not loose perspective here...

#54 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:19:17 am

#53 cheema sahib: are you calling mr. hamidm a "middle aged buffoon"? as peon sahib would say, I strongly protest that sir!!

#53 Posted by akcheema on May 20, 2008 6:16:54 am

Re: # 51; tahmed sahib,
"and if all you got out of the "Palace and Mosque" exhibition of islamic art"

Sir let's face it; what exactly is artistic about some middle aged baffoon trying to use the collective wealth of his subjects to construct 'monuments' and 'palaces' whilst the majority of his subjects go hungry?

If so, by the same token, would you also condone the several palaces constructed in Baghdad in recent past by Mr Hussain Al-Takriti too?

Its all very nice until we understand the 'true' history and 'significance' behind this so-called art....

#52 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:15:59 am

HP: #44 While people were, after the initial shock, relieved to no longer have what they considered to be the continuously complaining bengalis in Pakistan, I have never heard of any plan to actually separate Bangladesh from Pakistan. Why do you believe there was such a plan?

#51 Posted by tahmed32 on May 20, 2008 6:11:28 am

hamidm #47 So you did go to the show - which means that your rants about "islamic art" are fake. and dont blame it on the missus for forcing you to go.

and if all you got out of the "Palace and Mosque" exhibition of islamic art was "squiggly calligraphy" then perhaps then obviously you went to a different exhibition than the one I saw.

The show made a distinction between "Palace" vs "Mosque" art in the sense that the former included paintings like the persian and mughal miniatures whereas the latter included not just calligraphy (which is in fact quite graceful) but woodwork as well. It had pottery and showed how muslims learnt about fine china from the chinese and passed it on to the europeans. It showed how persian paintings evolved to absorb the realistic european style as the two civilizations came in contact. Someone could write a book on that one show alone - and in fact they had a book prepared.

And all you have to say is that it was "squiggly calligraphy"!! The large crowds in cities across the US, and the great reviews it received in newspapers, begged to differ with you.