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The King’s Gambit: Chapter 2 (The Soldier)

Umair Raja and Omer Rafique January 15, 2002

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#8 Posted by ylh on January 17, 2002 9:05:21 pm
Sign the Petition

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CNN/petition.html

THis is a counter petition to India`s lies.



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#7 Posted by ZafarA on January 17, 2002 9:05:21 pm
Reply Karakoram # 6

``Alot of Punjabis (other communities too maybe) have this thing called watta satta, where the brother and sister marry another brother and sister set. I believe, it provides some sense of security.``

And exchange of hostages?



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#6 Posted by Karakoram on January 17, 2002 5:50:06 pm
MonaSehgal:``They don`t marry out their cast let alone marry someone outside their religion. If someone dares to defy the community norms, the person is ostracised from it. That is how staunch they are. ``

Me: Wow, that can`t be too good. How many generations more before this starts to adversely affect them ?

Alot of Punjabis (other communities too maybe) have this thing called watta satta, where the brother and sister marry another brother and sister set. I believe, it provides some sense of security.

Peace.



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#5 Posted by monasehgal on January 17, 2002 2:47:36 pm
Pathan Mother?! I guess, you don`t know much about the Rajasthani (or the Rajputs) that is why this error. They don`t marry out their cast let alone marry someone outside their religion. If someone dares to defy the community norms, the person is ostracised from it. That is how staunch they are. Even in the Moghul era, they would marry their daughters to the Moghul royals but would never marry the sons for the fear of not being able to reproduce pedigree children in their family.

However, quite interesting.

Mona



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#4 Posted by Romair on January 16, 2002 4:38:44 pm
This story is primarily written by Omer Rafique. I only provide some of the technical details, a few overviews, and a some ideas. It should be by Omer Rafique & Umair Raja, and not the vice-versa. So I will let Rafique answer the questions on where everything is going, and how he is pacing the story.

It is true that many of my replies are longer than each one of these chapter. However, writing an interesting chapter is twenty times as difficult as writing an uninteresting reply.



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#3 Posted by ylh on January 16, 2002 12:21:36 pm
Umair,

Cessna Citation X is quite an aircraft isn`t it... I knew you would like it... I have been eyeing it for a very long time... eventhough there

isn`t even a ghost of a chance that I`ll ever be able to buy it. It is a the fastest Business Jet Mach 0.95, that I know, but I don`t know about the `fastest plane built without government dollars.`

But where the hell are you going with your story...



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#2 Posted by ali1 on January 16, 2002 12:21:36 pm
Romair,

Great going so far. Most of your posts are longer than this, so might as well submit larger chunks of your novel.

also

Rafi Quereshi sounds like Safi Quereshi, is this intentional?

Including San Rafeal is stretching Silicon valley too far.

[``Yet this small piece of land is the engine driving the whole US economy.``]

Duh!? Did you write this before 3/2000? which is when I sold my M3 and Vinod Khosla his Lamborghini and went into hiding from his investors. Smell the coffee dude, or do you still order your groceries from Webvan?



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#1 Posted by Ras Siddiqui on January 16, 2002 12:40:09 am

Needs more suspense to maintain continued high interest. This segment was possibly too short to thicken the plot.

We want more...

Ras

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