Chowk@Five

all right...happy birthday cyber hugs and all...can over look the cake and candles and champagne...but aren`t we overindulging here just a tad?...

...am sure there is a way you can link the other chowk related articles at the botom of this page and get the other `banished` works back on page 1?...just a thought....

...sorry for this interruption...ok back to the party:)...many happy returns...

...t

Happy Birthday Chowk.

Thank you CHOWK STAFF for your dedication, hardwork, and committment. One day you will be considered the earliest pioneers of freedom of thought and expression in our part of world. Thank you for fighting the fight against ignorance. Thank you for being the beacon of light, which helps people find their own ways. Thank you. God bless you.

Hey!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHOWK!

And a sincere thank you to all the writers, editors, staff and their famillies(lovely new babies esp!) for all your efforts in making what Chowk what it is. Thanks for introducing me to some wonderful people. Keep up the compelling, courageous, and visionary cyberwork!

Your Sister in Arms and South Asianess!

Samina

happy budday, men

(as we say in surat and bandra)

aakar

happy birthday chowk :) and thank you

shandana

Happy Birthday to Chowk..

okay, so I`ll refrain from singing the HB song that my mother still sings to her four children at approximately the time they were born!!! (thankfully none of us were born in the wee hours of the morn)

Thank you for making this possible..and may we continue to live in interesting times, and have articles that make us swoon, cause us gloom, and make us boom!

Cheers to all the writers, contributors, the editors and the staff..now back to the champagne and Red Label!!!

a.

PS..agree with temporal (must disagree with him at some point!) about the link, and bringing back the current articles :)

A Very Happy Birthday indeed.

To all the invisible minds/hadns behind - an EXCELLENT JOB, WELLDONE, THANKYOU to all for adding a certain spice to existence. THe first time was - what a drrrry website. THe second - what gives?? why would anyone rate this the best website! They dont even have a movies section!! FInally my attention went to the little numbers next to each article title and there was no looking back after that. Better than early morning cuppachai - it has been a pleasure coming to this website ever since.

Happy Birthday, and congratulations on all the hard volunteer work, for a job well done. You deserve a lot of credit.

P.S. Don`t let the success go to your head. The subtlety of a shy smile is much more seductive than the excesses of lustful exposures....the simplicity of the barely noticeable yearly chowk@x, hidden within all the regular articles, was much more graceful than a front page full of articles of self-proclamation.....

tum slaamat raho hazar baras

hur baras ke hoN din pachaas hazaar

Happy FIFTH birthday -- CHOWK -- and THANK YOU CHOWK STAFF -- for the last five great years -- and coming 5 more great years and on and on.....

gratefully,

hasan

A very happy birthday to CHOWK.
And let us not forget Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, all the children and grandchildren of Midnight.

Ras

Here are some things Chowk`s wonderful staff can think about for the next year:

1)Convert some of the 2000 lurkers into contributors and interactors.

2)Either update the replies section more frequently or get some volunteers to do it.

3)If financial considerations are causing problems for Chowk, try converting it to a subscription site for users outside the subcontinent.

4)Would it be too much to look for 12-head`s IP address(es) and have your cgi scripts automatically disallow it to create more nicks? This mere threat was enough to discourage mullah urstruly from doing the same......

later

-sac

P.S: Hopefully we`ll see Chowk around for a while.

Happy Anniversary Chowk and congratulations to staff, writers, interactors abd lurkers. It is better to be here than spending time somewhere else [although the best spending of time is to accumulate.........whatever...........for hereafter. hehehe]

Who has the most articles?

Who has the most postings?

Which article has the most and least responses?

Who is the best Muslim?

Who is the best Hindu?

Who is the most partiotic Indian?

Who is the most patriotic Pakistani?

Any Insaan outthere?

Who is most loved?

Who is most hated?

Who is smartest?

Who is most stupid?

Who is most handsome?

Who is prettiest?

Who is most literate?

Who is most ignorant?

The answer to all 99 questions is, of course, god.

Pick any number between 2 to 10

Multiply it with 9

Add the the both digits of double figure number

Subtract 5 for chowk`s fifth birthday

Assign letter to 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D and so on

Think of a country whose name starts with the letter for the remaining number

Think of an animal whose name starts with the second letter of that county

Think of the color of that animal

Why is it Black color? Allah ki marzi!!!

Some ancient Chinese sage must have--and if didn`t he should have--said that the one least visible is the one most noticeable. I`m glad to see that Chowk staff follows that saying so well.

Thank you guys for giving us Chowk, where our paths cross. You guys are just great, especially my dear friend with whom I had a great conversation at Kabul Restaurant. No, my friend, the food was very good, and my company even better. The English language has a word for situation like that: conviviality--good food, good wine, good company! Next time it`ll be my treat.

Running Chowk may be a tiring job, but in no way it`s thankless. We Chowkies love you for what you have given us. May the Heavens smile on you!

thank you...thank you...my `imaan`...lately rather shaky has been restored...there is a chowk editor...:)...somewhere out there and she listens...hallelujah...heheh...could have...should have asked for peace on earth...all right that is too much to ask for...how about kashmir?...all right let us forget that too...:)...let there be a peaceful beginning?...t

Happy Birthday Chowk. I discovered you around your first birthday and it has been wonderful. Thank you!

There is something great about Chowk. And that is why people tend to stick to it. if you see most of the other websites including sulekha, the rate at which people come and leave is pretty high. But on Chowk, most of the regular interactors have essentially remained same over the last two years and some new ones have joined the mainstream. This kind of loyalty is very rare in the cyberworld.

PS Happy b`day Chowk.