Dancing in the ruins

Sohail:

You may have something there. Only it is not in the dietary intake. It is in the air.

Non-existing standards of education, folk lore, religious zealot`s psychedelic outpourings, dogmatic approach to life, resignation-- gross resignation in the face of innovation are some of the causes.

Ooops, there goes the romantic visions. Sorry,Zeenat.

regards

Lovely story. Ghost stories are so romantic.

I couldn`t help feeling i was reading a Nancy Drew mystery. Nice story, but ridden with cliches - not that cliches are necessarily bad in themselves, for they must have some merit to retain such long life - but really, too many to digest at one go. Ancient ruins, sad dancing girls, the neat little clue, time travel, everything vanishes, jealous queen... You had such a lovely premise in the beginning when you laid out that the aura of people is imprinted on the places where they have lived - i wish you would go somewhere based on that without relying on time-worn mughal imagery.

enjoyable reading.

the ending was a little too neat.

A great story. Enjoyed reading it. Re-read it a second time.

As temporal points out, even in this (US) culture we have our share of the UFO types, which in a mechanized technological society`s serves the same purpose as ghosts.

I do wonder, though, how much of what happened there in the ruins was a result of mind altering substances? Could there be some psycadelic properties in our food that we don`t know of?

Really enjoyed reading this. We should have more work like this on Chowk.

Thank you for such a riveting story. It is nice to have such a romantic story on the chowk once in a while.

Have you seen Lata`s ``Lekin``?

Zeenat Jahan:

Interesting yarn. Held the reader`s interest.

Ghosts, like other idols, are truly for the believers. Here, we do not find many who would believe in tall tales. This, despite the fact that we have our share of the fringe dwellers believing in UFO,s, Bermuda Triangle, and the lot.

Am sure Saad, if he feels like braving the criticism, can shed some light on this phenomenon.

As for good old skepto-re-idealist like me ...............hush, someone is coming this way!

regards