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.

DRUMZ #85,


whoa, what`s this? what does sadna have that i don`t? i even bought a dress for our impending betrothal.....what the hell am i gonna do with it


shankar bhia,


don`t worry about me, convents are better than men these days ;)

Kudos to Chowk staff on their dedication to having a community. It amazes me that when many dot coms have dropped out or have converted to subscription sites and then have dropped out, you still keep going. Must be that you really love sadhana, urstruly & ylh :)

People here crib a lot when things are slow. That`s the price you pay for producing a bunch of addicts..

Happy Birthday Chowk and Members of Chowk!!

I am very happy to be a member of this Pakistani group. There are some very good ideas that are discussed on this forum. The people on this forum range from the terrorists to peace loving. I am very impressed that this forum does not enforce/mandate censorship, and accepts all comers, regardless of their point of view. This is the nice thing about Chowk that we can be free to discuss our views. Also, there is no senior or junior member of chowk. All members are equal and are free to express their point of view. This is very nice and very Islamic. Eventhough many chowkies are unIslamic in their viewpoint and behavior. A vigourous debate is always a good thing and hopefully we can learn form each other and respect each other. I just hope the calm voices of the peace loving members will overcome the rantings and ravings of the terrorists.

On this happy occasion, I would like to say that I am sorry if I have offended some of you chowkies, but all what I have said is from my heart. I do not regret it and I hope you will come to appreciate my point of view in time.

Peace by brother in Pakistan, India and all over the world.

P.S.: To editors: In your statistics it would be nice to know the demographics of chowk. Who is from where and what is the age groups of the members.

Dear Chowk and Chokers lol ..

Happy Anniversery!

One recommendation, you need to attract more people!..We need some new blood, you should fix term limits for people like myself, temporal Omair etc etc...lol!

Best wishes again!

August 14 & 15 Blues?


MOSQUE OR TEMPLE?

The Indus and the Ganges shed few tears of joy
Can one imagine the Taj Mahal without admirers?
While a Brahmin says that the age of great people is over
The multitudes wait for messiahs at
The Shalimar Gardens reserved for VIP’s
Bring your own mirrors to the Sheesh Mahal they say.

Old and new dynasties suffer blow after blow
Unfortunately this is not a kushti/wrestling show
While a warrior Shivaji watches Rustam do battle
Tired soldiers shoot at Midnight’s Children as
The battlefield has now reached the qalandar/minstrel
Who only wanted to recite Urdu poems.

History they say is pregnant once again
Multiple births, the wise old ladies predict
But they have been wrong before says the hakeem/doctor
Herbal medicine will control the birth rate and
The pulse of the mareez/patient has been felt
Indigestion from eating at Delhi’s Chandni Chowk.

Yet peace will make a comeback “as always” says the shaayir/poet
Such burning tragedy is embedded in our tandoori bread flour with
An explanation that has already been written in Sindhi
A translation is in the works at a London suburb but
All this hate is blind says a Sufi/Mystic
Mosque or Temple, please mix your spirits with great care.


Ras H. Siddiqui

=== Interact Filtered ===
view this users filtered interacts

Happy Birthday Chowk,

To that special staff person, who we are told, has to do late night diaper changes....you are the greatest person on Chowk; thankyou!.. I hope, for a change, you are a S.Asian MALE!!:)

chowk is an addiction alrite, even when all the articles say the same thing over and over again....and even when all the interactors say the same thing over and over gain....when u`re hooked, u want to come here over and over again, even against ur intelligence and will sometimes.

happy birthday chowk, and a big high five to the editors for keeping it kicking.

Happy birthday chowk, and glad you plan to stick around for five more years (at least). And thanks for providing facilities to promote this wonderful new form of communication - the internet. As per the news item today, they have identified the ``speech gene``, which is unique to humans and which came into being about 200,000 years ago - about the same time that mankind in its present form came into being. This signifies, I think, the fundamental importance of communication to human progress. And the internet will no doubt ultimately have as big an impact on human society as development of speech - thus, to state the most obvious, it will be hard to demonize the ``enemy country`` if the populace can communicate with one another. So, chowk is part of a fundamental revolution in human affairs, I think.

And for that reason I wish you all success. I do think that for success chowk exercises a bit more of it`s role as moderator (i.e. by ensuring that posts stick to it`s stated guidelines), rather than the laissez-faire policy it currently seems to have. It would require more effort, but ultimately it would make chowk a more effective forum for thoughtful discussion. Otherwise, Gresham`s Law (bad currency drives out good currency) would ultimately apply I think.

The above are some thoughts on fine-tuning the management of chowk, and certainly I certainly hope that this is done while retaining the basic spirit of letting all viewpoints come through on chowk.

=== Interact Filtered ===
view this users filtered interacts

Hippo birdies to yooo

Hippo birdies to yooooo

Hippo birdieees dar Chowwwwwwwwwk

Hippo birdies to yooooooooow.

And; THU,NKS for lattingme, b,e ME!

Your fann

Lajwanti

PS Slaaaaaaaam!

A big fat mubarak-baad to the Chowk staff on the fifth birthday of the site. It`s been a pleasure witnessing both the wisdom and whimsy (sometimes the same) that Chowk fosters. Looking forward to many more. Jeetay rahein.

...dear chowk...happy birthday...it has been/continues to be a great ride:)....

Happy Birthday Chowk

lots of hugs and kisses to Chowk Staff & readers

Cheers

Chowk walon ko bohat bohat mubarak =o)

and here`s an extra `thank you` to Chowk for reaffirming my faith (in who else but myself?) and for unclogging the word drainpipe...

rgds,

Samina

Ref Lajwanti #: 28

[Hippo birdies to yooo]

That should be ``Hippo birdies two ewe``.

Thank you Chowk. You kept my creative spark alive at a time when it was seriously close to being extinguished. I don`t think I`d be where I am today without you (seriously).

Many Happy Returns and love to all my fellow Chowkies.

Hard to believe that 5 years have gone by. That was the time when chowk was rich, could afford to pay ``india today`` far a banner ad. Now it is hard for chowk to have timely updates.

Most of the bright and colourful have left, well only hamidm remains. Bhaijan, ganga din, tehsin.

There were great moments, kargill invasion, hijacking and of course, `` he had no choice`` by the little mushy. It must be a useful exercise to resurrect that article with all the posts to see who was most ``prophetic``. Most of the posters appear to be still around.

There is no place as wonderful in this whole wide cyber world. From unbelievable cat fights to downright piggish behaviour to abnormal feelings of wanting to reach out and hug interactors to meeting some special people in real and cyber life- Chowk is a miracle without which many of us would be different people. Thank you most emphatically.

anNy

12 head,

{{Since then i have been on & off but no body gacve me any notice or respect untill NOW}}

That ``respect`` you talk about was when tahmedji thought you were a genuine interactor. He himself admitted that you caught him when he was half asleep.

The ``notice`` interactors give you is otherwise known as ``negative attention``...the kind one gives to an annoying child who wants to be part of the conversation, when adults are talking.

Happy Birthday, Chowk!! I am one of the 2000 lurkers, been lurking since the start in 1997. I don`t interact coz my English is bad, I cannot express myself properly and I am soooo scared of all the other InterActors....:-)

Keep on the good work!!

Billi

Many many congratulations to the beautiful people who created, run and edit Chowk.com!!

-h-

Happy 5th Birthday Chowk !

Sometimes I wonder how Chowk has managed to survive amid the slowdown in internet advertising spending. I have noticed a decrease in the frequency of new articles being posted.

I would like to know what are Chowk`s plans for survival and if there is anything I/WE can do as readers of Chowk.

Stay Happy!

Aziz

Had to come back to wish Chowk!

Happy birthday.

Just a tiny note- Zafar`s bday too!

Hmmm. Five years eh? Not bad. Not bad at all.

re: spout

{happy birthday chowk, and a big high five to the editors for keeping it kicking.}

...are you supposed to be queen latifah or something today?....

Zafar,

Samina says `just a little note...`, but here`s a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you too, and many many more.

P.S..just another little note..it`s my half birthday too..so every August 14th I get that much closer to another year *sigh *

Happy Birthday Zafar! (saminashah #43 seems good at keeping track of birthdays).

Happy birthday Chowk!!!

=== Interact Filtered ===
view this users filtered interacts

I like chowk, sometimes. Thanks & Good Luck for the future.

Happy Birthday Chowk!

And regards to all friends/foes I have made on Chowk in all these years:-)

Billi,

Aw c`mooon stop being a lurker & join our party! Who cares if your english is bad? I speak bad english too. The good thing about Chowk is kuchbi english chalta hai our kuchbi spelling chalta hai. Just dont submit an article though, because then Mia Temporalji will start singing:)

Dont worry about rudeness & occ. gaalis either. Words can hurt children, but as mature adults, as long as we are secure about our self esteem, words should NOT hurt us! People give gaalis to GOD!...why should mere mortals like us be exempt?

Thats the good thing about cyberspace & anonymity. On Chowk you can reveal as much or as little about your personal self. Even if there is a khunnas-ka fight; nobody gets physically hurt. Thats what happens in the ``real`` world....then all the ``fun`` in the fight is gone:)!

raveena #39,

children should be seen not heard, so shooo, go play in the mud outside.

Happy anniversary Chowk. Here`s wishing you another 5 more years. By that time I hope we will not need Chowk to air our peeves and kudos, :-)

I hope all 2K members (lurkers?) will post something on this anniversary of Chowk`s creation.

It is also fun to read the responses even if its a bit of a bundchungal for some people, :-)

Dear ChowkStaff:

I may occassionally play the ingrate and whine about how chowk`s seems to sacrificing quality at the altar of sensationalism and polemic, but I remain indebted to you guys for more than I could hope to express in this little box (including, regreattably, a temporary loss of a social life sometimes :) )

Thank You!

“O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do.” Ayah 8, Surah Al-Maida.”

__________________________________________________


tahafahim #55:


aaozobillah-e-min’ashh shaitaan-nir rajim!

and

Lahol-e-wala-quwwata-illa-billah-e-…….




Anyone who is so hateful cannot be a marginal muslim even. Go read that surah in the second chapter...the one tahmed hinted at on another board that puzzled hamidm…that finds a place in His heaven for saracens, christians, jews….anyone...as long they believe in their heart of heart in one creator, a day of reckoning and have led a good earthly life…He promised a just reward for them…and i suspect even those who do not believe in Him…but lead and led a good life…a law-abiding temporal existence…they will not face His wrath…

...may the wrath of Allah visit you and your bigoted brothers-in-trade here and in ‘akhirah’…o hate-mongering pseudo muslim…

...t

AnNy #36: [abnormal feelings of wanting to reach out and hug interactors to meeting some special people in real and cyber life]

It is normal feeling to wanting to reach out and hug kafir interactors; abnormal is for the rest....:))

Remember it is always, ``kis kafir pe pyar aaya`` and not ``kis momin pe pyar aaya``. Also it is always, ``dil-e-be-iman ke baataiN`` and not ``Imandar dil ke krishmey``.

Smoking Chowk blend has magic qualities of visualizing fourth dimention and beyond. I bet before the sixth birthday, YLH and Harimau will be Bhai-Bhai whereas Scout and Rsaxena Behen-Bhai.

Subject: Microsoft for the punjabis

DO READ THE FINAL COMMENT!!!

If computer starts working in Punjabi then?

This will change setting of your computer as per the guidelines given

below

so that you can work in PUNJABI ...

Send = Sutto

Insert = Wich Paao

Attachement = Naal Laao

Edit = Sidda Karo

View = Waikhee Jaao

Forward = Aggay Sutto

Inbox = Undar Da Daak Khaana

Outbox = Baar Da Daak Khana

Trash = Mitti Paao

Sent Items = Bheji Gayee Dak

Address Book = Patay Wali Kaapy

Reply = Bejan Walay Nu Jawab do

Reply All = Saareyaan Nu Jawab do

Delete = Daffa Karo

Download = Thallay Laao

Download All = Saary Cheezan Noon Thallay Laao

Properties = Jaidaad

Connect = Naal Milaao

Fonts = Likhaai

Accounts = Galla

Drafts = Chitheeyaan

Find = Labbo

Paste = Thook Naal Chipkaao

From = Bhejan Walaa Banda

To = Door Betha Hoya Banda

Subject = Khaas Gall

Carbon Copy = Koelay Walee Naqal

Blind Carbon Copy = Anni Koelay Walee Naqal

Stationery = Pensal, Rubburd, Shaapnar

Folders = Thailay

High priority = Waddee Takleef

and finally

Ctrl+Alt+Delete = Sara Syapa Mukao

Chowk staff needs to be credited for their patience and hard work.

It is remarkable as scout said to be addicted to this site. And as someone else pointed out, cutting the family ties.

As Iqbal said (Was it Iqbal?:

``Silah-e- Shaheed Kiya Hai

Tabo Taab-e Jawidana.

Although Chowk claims to be a forum for South Asians to come near each other.

But mostly it results in anger and frustration and letting each other down.

But that is how family, friends and neighbour behave in real life.

So what is the prize for Chowk staff, except making their own life miserable so that we can be happy?

Happy fifth birthday to Chowk and Chowk family.

Shahgul,

ROTFL

Temporal,

Lve. lve. lve.

Yours,

Aamir

….zafarsaab, a very happy belated birthday…

Howdy Chowk,

Happy 5th birthday. You`re one year closer to your death!

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know the ocean merges into the drop.

Think about the above two statements.

Umer M.

...what?...zafar turned 28 and i didn`t even know?...well, happy birthday, zafar...

Oh God.

Reply harimau #: 33

That should be ``Hippo birdies two ewe``.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! HAMBU G! (I amo nly sanging if they a rehalAL ewe, ok?)

tahmed, ana, semi, saminashah (even rsax) – many thanks, I have grown from knowing you. (and all you others on chowk.)

oh, and happy budday chowk, you are a true gulistan in cyberspace.

Rsax to zafar al talib

“what?...zafar turned 28 and i didn`t even know?...well, happy birthday, zafar.”

Neither did I – a well kept secret, eh -- only 28!

JawaaN honey lagay tow hum say keoN ye umr kaa purdaa.

Haya uk lakht aiee ur shabaab aahista aahista

(amir minaaee se maazrut ke saath – thank u jagjeet)

HAPPY BIRHTDAY -- ZAFAR MIAAN – aap salamat raheiN hazaar baras -- chowk ke saath

hasan

Ref Lajwanti #: 65

[Reply harimau #: 33

That should be ``Hippo birdies two ewe``.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! HAMBU G! (I amo nly sanging if they a rehalAL ewe, ok?)]

TWO puns in one reply?

I am truly impressed, 12-head!

harimau

``Ref Lajwanti #: 65

[Reply harimau #: 33

That should be ``Hippo birdies two ewe``.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! HAMBU G! (I amo nly sanging if they a rehalAL ewe, ok?)]

TWO puns in one reply?

I am truly impressed, 12-head!``

...this lajwanti def. isn`t part of the multi-headed hydra...

Reply Nasah # 67

The youth of today, I tell you….that malicious clown R Saxena lives only to persecute and harrass me…I’m, I’m….I’m (whispering) thirty-eight (bursts into tears) Thank you for your good wishes Hasan Mian.

(I`ll get you Saxena...thumhari baari bhi ayegi...I`m still trying to socially recover from having foolishly acted on your fashion advice...shellaccing my hair didn`t work...)

``Are you surfing the web again?``

``Uh Uh``

``What are you upto? Oh great you are at that site again. Don`t you spend enough time there at work?``

``Just give me a minute``

``I don`t believe it, you come back from work after staring at the computer screen and promptly log on to the web again``

``Just checking my e-mail``

``Checking mail my paws and whats this screen you have open? Chowk-mail? Is this a porn-site or something?``

``Don`t be silly. Its a very good site for interacting with others from the sub-continent. I mean where would I get to exchanges views with someone from Karachi?``

``Oh yeah and who are all these `people` most of the don`t even have real names? I mean whoi in his his right mind mind would want to be called `DRUMZ```

``Well he is one of the more interesting ones..``

``And you call this a web site? Just look at it - such drab colours, no multimedia to be seen anywhere. That same cartoon on the front page for how many months now, the posts take days to get updated, ...um ah I mean thats what you tell me ...``

``Hang on just a minute, Nawab have you been accessing the net while I am at work?``

``Er .. that is to say.. yes. But you don`t know how boring it gets here at home. I mean how long can one watch those soaps on TV``

Great so while I am working my dog has been running up the internet bill. Which left me with another thought.

``Nawab, what ID have you been using on chowk?``

``Can we go for a walk now I really need to go``

Don`t worry folks I`ll wheedle that ID out of him does he really think us humans are so dumb.

zafar happy birthday

2 more years man big 30 -------

Happy Birthday Dost Mittar!

Good Goddess, you guys are so much older than the rest of us....

Happy Birthday Zafar. I always thought of you as an older wiser guy, er, person. Now I know why

:-)

As they say out here ``Happy b`day Zafar. Hip, hip, hooray``.

Arre ye kya...birthdays being revealed here???

Happy (belated) Birthday, dost-mittar!!! Mauj manavo ji!!!!

And there had damn well better be life after 38 otherwise you and I would be rab de pyaray by now (not that we`re not his beloved now ;) Cheers, and pegs to all those celebrating around this time...well almost all :)

Ref wholly-precious-you #: 69

[...this lajwanti def. isn`t part of the multi-headed hydra...]

Compare the writing style.

...mittarsaab, a very happy belated birthday to you too...

harimau

``Compare the writing style.``

...that`s deliberate...comapre the content/wit...hydra could`t write like that even if he/she/it grew a million heads...btw, nice to see you back...i think...:)

Dost Mittar,

I HAVE read and responded to your post on Blasphemy and I say it again:

Happy Busday!

:)

ana,

What was it your b`day recently, too?

!!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Anyone know Tahmed Sahib`s?

azizee dost mitter saheb

shubh janam din mubaarak -- pehle bataya hota --maiN aap ke liye bhee jugjeet saheb ke kuch ashaar dhoondh nikaltaa -- berkaif meri filbadeeh doaa aapke liye:

``hur mubarak saal ko tum ur jawaN hote raho``

HAPPY BIRTHDAY dost-mitter ji.

hasan

Dost-mittar-jee,

Happy birthday. Here`s wishing for plenty more.

aamir

Samina jaan...

no, my birthday was exactly six months prior to August 14th...in my wishing Zafar a happy b`day, I was joking about the fact that it was my half birthday. Half birthdays vaise are celebrated by some people, and then there are the unbirthdays in Alice in Wonderland...but let`s not go there!!!! :) P.S...thank you for the half-birthday wishes! :-)

dost-mitter saheb

uss bund ki islaah ke baad complete couplet appki khidmat maiN:

hur mubarak saal pe aap r jawaN hote raheiN/

dosti meiN mittertaa meiN kaamraaN hote raheiN

:-)

hasan

Happy Fifth Chowk! Looking forward to many more...

Best Wishes!

Let`s see..what is happening here on Chowk@Five..Asma is resurrected...Quinton Zondervan???...Yasser writes but doesn`t write about the Arundhati Roy visit...Rehan is trashed, yet again...the drought in India is incredibly much more serious and deadly than the drought the article is experiencing in terms of responses...since nobody cares what went wrong with Devdas, or the article about it, a poster has decided to make it his pick-up joint, and we`ve used it to list a few of our favorite things...a story of deliverance becomes Good-riddance...and clever Yasser wishes us a Happy 56th in advance..the Blasphemy board still goes strong with its `blasphemers`;), and most other articles that move to the second and third pages remain dormant...why is that by the way?!?! It`s not as if they`re not relevant anymore (if they ever were).

aaj hi dekhiye issi site par Chowk@five: where anything goes, except for 12+head...can we modify the Henny Youngman `Take my wife please` to `Take hydra and farangi kush..please!`

Okay, now back to our regular programming...

P.S. Dear Chowk editors, I propose you take Yasser`s cue, and write Chowk@seven in 2003..and go with that link thing...theek hai? You won`t be jinxed..pukka!

P.P.S. to #89 Omigosh..I forgot...how could I...how could I forget Shandana? I didn`t...I just didn`t remember to add this

Yasser writes but doesn`t write about the Arundhati Roy visit...while Shandana speaks volumes :)

You guys are awesome.... congratulations.

You must somehow think about attracting more/new interactors at this website

re: chowk

Chowk is a fun place to be in. Hope it grows and becomes less jingoistic and more meaningful.

Sridhar

Reply semipreciousme # 69

“...this lajwanti def. isn`t part of the multi-headed hydra...”

I amn ot say I am, but al soI amnot deny, behain.

AllI amsay is thatI amn ot like Deepka! Ifdeepka goesa wauyI amgutting onvery nice with Fatimah falanafalana. Please adviceme. Deepkai sruin my life!!!! Help! Help! Hulp! (g;lui..mphsa….glugglugglug….liquid oxygen meiN…naheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeN!)

HARAM IOU !!

Even ali1`s moth eatenn or Chhopped MUSLIM MEMBER

has more inteklligence than YOU!!!

re: hydra

“You have been TOLD million times thatLajwanti is Banjara but like Hyperactive ADDH kid you keep coming back for copliments for silly stupid answer you give thinking you are very intelligent!???????.”



…and you have been TOLD a million times that we see through your multi-nick syndrome but like a brain fried masochist you keep coming back for more whippings…and YOU think you’re intelligent!????….

=== Interact Filtered ===
view this users filtered interacts

Ref. AAmir`s Post

``That coming from middle school d.c.area educated burger flipping bah bah black sheep bleating is good enough who still thinks we are playing when game is long past over dildo .Now su+ck on your thumb``

Judging from the way you write, it seems like you walk around with 50 dildos stuck up your behind!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I pronounce Lucy the first Spice Girl:)

Umer M.

AAmir

You are a very sad human being. Why are you like that? Please tell me.

Chowk

May you keep phalling and phooling :=)

I dedicate this couplet to CHOWK :

Guzro jo Chowk se to Dua maangtey chalo

Daalee per jo phool khiley haiN Woh hamesha mehekhtey raheiN

A very Happy 5th ... May this site forever prosper [Aameen ]

P.S. A very warm welcome back to KRashid :)

sa:)

12 head,

Knock it off.

Lucy #98,

tsk tsk tsk, go wash ur mouth with soap and water :)

Happy Birthday!!!!!

Thank you, and many happy returns to the patient

and hard-working Chowk Staff.

Kant...

UMAIR KHAN:

``Jarahat tohfaa, almaas armughaaN, daagh e jigar hadiyaa.

Mubarakbaad! `Umair` ghamkha`ar e jaan e khastaa tuun aayaa!``

__________________________________GHALIB.

We have really come a Long Long way.

There was a CHOWK known as chandni chowk. Ghalib has verse-painted the horrors of those times in such a way that no matter how much the Ba Ba Blacksheep hone their origamic skills, the paper on which those verses are inscribed, always shows the factual facet of the farangi.

Naqsh faryaadi hai kis kee shokhee e tehreer kaa?

Alhamdu-Lillah! We are no longer taken for granted. A lot more has yet to be done to increase the dosage of their barbiturates.



Chandni CHOWK---1857.

Baskeh Faal-i-Ma Yureed Hai Aaj

Har Soo`- Shor Ing-listaan Ka

Ghar Se Bazaar Mein Nikalte Hue

Zahra Hota Hai Aab Insaan Ka

Chowk Jis Ko Kahain Woh Maqtal Hai

Ghar Bana Hai Namoona Zindaan Kaa

GHALIB.

CHOWK---2002

Keyboards kee haqiquatain afsaana buun gaeeN,

MonitoroN pey aaeeN kyaa-- aaeena buun gaeeN!

Tumm ko Umair! saalgirah e CHOWK mubarak

Yeh paanch shummain, buzm ka paimaana buun gaeen,

HAMZAD AFAQUI.

Shirin Ahmed #101

Thanks.

Chowk eats up a lot of time.