Chowk - Ek Katha

SameerJB

For your excellent description of Paan ingredients, you are invited to Prince Paan at M Block Market, Greater Kailash 1, New Delhi. Your choice of Saada or Meetha. and many hours of Totey taadna as free benefit...;)

Sameer, I was just kidding :-)

On the occasion of Independence day my best wishes to everyone, Indian or Pakistani. Here are some of my all time favourite lines by Rabindranath Tagore.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high



Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

Pankaj and SameerJB,

Thanks for the definition. :)

concerned, ``thanks sameer for your explanation to scout (does she realize her part in the story?)``

Hmmmm... I read it again and couldn`t find it...but I`m sure it`s not nice (comments from men to me usually aren`t, esp. on chowk)

#20 scout

boohoooo..

Do you realize that you use gender putdowns yourself, such as addressing suxena raveena? What`s up with that? Or are you being endearing?

THE GOOD OLD DAYS,

Yes there indeed was a good old day, the days of the chowk forum, when one started a thread of discussion. The days when hamid confused a lot about his posts about the american indians and how sleeman is adored in pakistan. The inspirational and evocative posts of Bhaajan is really missed, especially the one he wrote when bagdad was bombed. I miss the posts of Tehsin, a rare pakistani. Those were the days of no pass word, one could assuma any name and had several multiple posters.

Gangadin was another colourful charector. Rarely see ranaransher and vidyadhera, still around some time.

Dear author, see what you started :).

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I think the above line is beautiful because it acknowledges every single chowkwallah(contributer, interactor, silent reader) and his/her/their uniqueness.

(The omission of any possibly relevant `special` characters apart from the above two is not intentional).

Dear Concerned;

For a humble, inconspicuous, and an ordinary people like myself it is like a complement. Was that a complemet? :)

Thank you.

urstruly,

well, its like what you guys are very fond of saying - one man`s terrorist is another man`s freedom-fighter...

with that in mind, you will get the answer to your q.

Welcome back Urstruly !Nice to have you amongst us again ... and [LOL] i had been thinking you were trapped all this while in the elevator with Rosy ? :)

love,

Shirin

Dear Shirin

Thanks for the warm welcome.

But please refrain from putting ideas into my innocent head :)

Urstruly,

I was under the impression that Rosy was a pichathar sala Buzurgh lady , who went for a daily walk , and you met her in the elevator every morning .Sometimes you would help her getting her grocery bags to her apt. being a dutiful young neighbour. Sometimes you would take her out for her errands, like Drs. trip, etc. as Rosy poor thing cannot drive anymore .

I thought she would be blessed being trapped in the elevator during load shedding, and you would just gently console her by showing her your wrists .She would smile back, and it would give her the courage to stay put till the rescue guys came and got both of you out .

Now whatever gave you the impression that i was corupting your innocent mind ? [LOL] !!

love,

sa:)

why thank you concernedlovie..i do believe youve immortalized me in cyberspace :0)

anNy,

welcome back! hope you are fully recovered.

anNy welcome back.....has been ages since we tasted the khyali pulao from Burns Road to Tariq Road and Sabri`s Nihaari and Kareemu`s kababs. Looking forward to your chirpy reportage

on the culinary delights of our fair city.

Regards.

haaaai banjara bhai..the only thing i can comment on right now is yukky watery hospital food...no mirchi or oil..:0(

concerned:

ekdumn set :0)