The Nature of The Sea

tahmed321 # 30....Aamir # 29

Very well said :)

sa

AAmir#29 Keep on sprinkling the seeds of good sense my friend. Sprinkle these seeds on every board of chowk. Sprinkle these seeds not once on each board but over and over. Sprinkle them until even they take root in even the most wooden of heads.

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Shandana,

The relief of having you back after the silence of the graveyard itself was elevating.

The piece was high on the usual virtues of your writing, the quirky, precise, detailed imagery of your desctiptions. The unique, if peculiar, sensousness that is the hallmark of your writing.

I do not know if I am the only one, but the first person narrative might have subtracted something from the piece`s tension. And then again, that itself is also the cornerstone of that tension. Sigh!

I felt the end was a little too pat..so many short stories have the ending of a precisely drawn landscape being attributed to blindness revealed in ``not any longer O Henry`` kind of a denouement.

I remember it was one of the favourite tricks of college short story writers.

That said, please write more often. Even the repeat Karachi piece was such a pleasure.

cheers

Harish

actually why negate all the hard work in the

article by saying that you couldnt see the sea....

Naah, whats up, something wrong here

whats the point and why drag amean into this?

fallible:

(only becoz u asked :)) -- yes, i think you missed something.

er.. fairdee.. make that shortstopman@hotmail.com, or postmatser@yahoo.com. Or waht the heck, if you remember my name, it`s MyFullName @ hotmail!

Really would like to hear from you.

later..

P.

why is it that i feel that the positive side of shandana minhas is finally coming out? or did i miss something?

js

Pravin:

Thaaks for the update on Rajan. Sure is nice to know he`s making a good recovery. I trust you have conveyed the wishes and prayers of all of chowkwalahs to him.

rgds,

PM

Hey Shandana...you asked me to e-mail you. I did. All I get from your side is silence.:-) What`s up?

re. fairdinkum

S, good to see you back on the chowk!

Now, where`d u get the idea that this story of Shandana`s made sense to me? I think Shandana herself would be disappointed to hear that it *did * make sense to us logicians.

When I read Shandana, I send my left brain out for a walk, lest it get in the way of savoring her delectable gifts of wordsmithiness and shocking powers of observation.

What to say yaar...it`s a chick thing... God just made us guys to be the ones to invent and fall in love with combustion engines and curvaceous bods... ok, and feign a little right brain activity when needed to..

could u pass along your email addy again? Mine shortstopman@yahoo.com.

see ya soon,

P.

violent and pointless!!

``at least their sh *t you can smell before you step in it - who needs affection when you can have truth - ex-sanguinated - disfigured``

and not all of that is a figment of yours/anyone else`s imagination.

i`m struggling to put this into words but i think `fakhra` would be able to relate to this chill of controlled violence.

good writing.

-p

Although I couldn`t get much of this article, but I am an ardent fan of your writings... And that just happened a short while ago, when I, by chance, came across one of your articles, `Extract` (it would be interesting to tell that it was a search on Google with the keyword `Karachi`, :-) try it)... It is a terrific piece of writing... When I finished reading it, I searched Chowk for all of your articles and took them one by one... :-) I dont know whether I share the same ideas as you do in your articles (well, this doesn`t make any difference to you... :-) may be one has to think to find it out ), but I do know one thing that your way of writing is marvelous... your selection of words and art of composing beautiful sentences from them is simply awesome... besides your piercing wit... it`s just great... I just couldn`t help myself to go through each of your articles again and again, as though I actually got addicted... :-) By the way when is your book going to come out?!? I`ll be eagerly looking forward to it... I`ve never been to Karachi, but I`ve always wanted to visit this beast of a city... thanks for revering Lahore and Lahories... :-) u aren`t that wrong... :-) anyways I just sometimes wonder what kind of a person are you!!! I am totally perplexed... but you dont have to worry about it... you just have to keep writing like that... :-) well, just for the sake of introduction to you and Chowk, I am a 23 yrs old Electronic Engineer... well I guess that`s enough for an introduction... :-)

cheers :-)

tm

Bapu #15

You say:

``If you see Dawood,in Katrachi ask him to face up to his charges like Bandit Queen``

Thanks for describing the dynamics of ``Indian Jutice`` so eloquently...

I don`t blame Dawood (whoever he is), or anybody else for that matter, for not returning to Inida to face chagres (whatever their crime(s) may be)... If Dawood can live in Karachi in peace... I say, good luck to him!