Tattoo diary: Queens, New York

Re Roohi #34

Yep saw Monsoon Wedding last week and feel it should have been India`s entry at Oscars rather than Laagan. Its a lovely movie to watch (esp. if you are from Delhi) and its something most people can relate to, re the whole Shaadi/Byah chakkar. The movie has a number of subplots apart from the main wedding arrangement which are all neatly interwoven together by Mira Nair.

Its a much more realistic movie than Lagaan and shows a face of India different from what normally other nominated movies from India show, viz the poverty.

Unfortunately I couldn`t watch the movie in a hall when I was in Delhi this Dec, but had to watch in it in Oz on the video :-(

And my other reason for liking it is cos a cousin has acted in it.

aicha ``Tattoos - i think a tattoo in the right spot - at the base of your neck - is damn sexy !! People are always yapping about this and taht and taht and this - so why worry what they will say !! ``

Quite true. I`m not into getting a tattoo myself, because its permanent and will probably outlive my novelty for it. However from an appreciative stance, a tattoo on the lower back is a big turn on.

aicha:

i think just by the ankle looks really cool!

The only people interested in media desis are other media desis like yourself. Perhaps the frustration you speak of is mutual.

Daniel Pearl is dead: WSJ

A very sad day for all human beings that wish
for a better tomorrow. I hope that the SOB`s
who did this are paid in the same coin.

A sad day for U.S.-Pakistan relations

Ras Siddiqui

Roohi...I saw `Monsoon Wedding` and was somewhat disappointed that it didn`t receive Oscar consideration. Good movie. Since I haven`t seen Lagaan (am renting the video tonight), I can`t say who deserved more. I`m not from Delhi, but it was definitely more than just a backdrop, which I appreciated immensely.

My last reply received the censorial silencing it seems...oh well. That`ll teach me to borrow from Hindi filmi gaane again! :-D

Re: ylh

{{Why are you so obsessed with me?}}

because you are the coolest guy since Mr. T from the A-Team

re: stuka

{{Didn`t know Jinnah created Pakistan from Nepal, the only Hindu state I know of. YLH dude, just as you say Indians should visit Pakistan and look at the many different Pakistans that exist, so should you travel to India to judge for yourself. How can you judge a country by the posts put by anonymous posters.}}

...who cares what some delusional kid from rutgers (Ivy League!!!) thinks of india...just learned that india is McKinsey`s fastest growing market...that`s pretty nice...and with the recent increase in pace of privatization, india`s gonna edge up that growth rate quite nicely...the faster we move ahead, the more pakis like ylh look like clowns...

{{If you are too busy to travel to India, you should accept mine and Rsaxena`s standing invitation to do a bar crawl in NYC/Boston to see the real faces of us Indians.}}

...i don`t think a bar crawl will help this dude...he needs a visit to the coffee shops in amsterdam...

Roohi, Zehra,

Um..Chutney Popcorn was charming in some aspects and a bit pedantic in others...I thought the main character`s friends were funny in a playful way, and the whole role reversal between the main character and her sis was interesting...and I have to say, it does a better job in representing women negotiating sexuality than a lot of the misogynistic stereotypes our desi bros are putting out...man eaters, man haters, etc.

Akash .. whatever my upbringing... I know it very well, and thank God for it. Atleast I am not a naive little kid like you who believes every lie your elders like `the uncle educated in nehru`s time` Mr.Harimau tells you.

Eik to I am really sick of explaining myself. For the last time, I think Pakistan is part of South Asia and that is undeniable fact (hence my efforts at Rutgers to get PSA involved in the South Asian Unity Show) ... but what pisses me off is the fact that there are south Asian-ists who promote South Asian Identity at the expense of Pakistan.

Pakistan, India and others are in the stages of National development which Most of Western Europe including the Iberian Peninsula reached in the 15th century when France was ruled by Louis the 11th, and Spain was being consolidated under Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal was being developed as a Nation-state and the idea of ONE christendom had recently been defeated. England amazingly had reached this state in the 11th century under William the Conqueror and later Richard Lion Heart and his Brother King John.

Our problem is that we were unified under false pretences... `Ottoman Khilafat`, `Mughal Empire`, `British india`.. we only got rid of all these what ... 55 years ago? First will come National development, then true democracy, and then we can think of an Asian Union of Sovereign Asian States.

Tattoos - i think a tattoo in the right spot - at the base of your neck - is damn sexy !! People are always yapping about this and taht and taht and this - so why worry what they will say !!

Zehra,

You`re right those bits were really lame ...

By the way has anyone seen Monsoon Wedding yet ? Did you think it deserved to go to the Oscars instead of Lagaan ? I`m hoping it`s good since it`s the first movie set in meri Dilli that`s rumoured to be decent after Masoom

Reply # 26 Stuka

[In Delhi they would say... `` Maa da Lun??? Oh, must be the mother of Ali#1 ``]

Please dont assume all mothers to be like your own mother. No wonder you dad buys chastity belts by the dozen.......... but we still have you.

Reply # 26 Stuka

[What about the Mohajirs? The ones in Karachi? Do their mothers actually have dicks?]

No. Quite unlike the khatri moms of dehli.

Everytime someone disses Jinnah,even marginally, YLH comes out to clean up. I am reminded of the following and YLH - so apt (shall give the title at the end). Its as if JInnah needs to be constantly cleaned up after some guy attempts to use him as his verbal piisuer. Jinnah cannot be used as such, and his character and station in History is well protected. Grow up YLH. Fo ryou these lines....you do not have the thekedaari of Jinnah. Oh BTW please get rid of your lil infy complex ...

Slumped on a chair, his body is an S

That wants to be a minus sign.

His face is overripe Wensleydale

Going Blue at the edges.

In overalls of sacredotal white

He guards a row of fonts

With lids like eye-patches. Snapped shut

They are castanets. All day he hears

Short-lived Niagaras, the clank

And gurgle of canescent cisterns.

When evening comes he sluices a thin tide

Across sand-coloured lino.

Turns Medusa on her head

And wipes the floor with her.