Look Ahead In Terror

Mr rehan ansari
Ashis Nandy is a psychologist or sociologist?
Regards

saminasha,

can i come to CUNY too, i wanna see yours and rehan`s pretty faces....
oh and to learn too

Thank RA about N. Modi. and what indian said.

I recall similar thing I recall vividly. My relative served from february71 to sept.71 in east pakistan in civilian job. When he returned I was only 22 and he came to visits us. My father wanted to know how things are going in East pakistan. I brought tea and sat listening not very interested. He said our soldiers are killing our own people and they will kill in hundreds of thousands. My father did not ask more. Afterwards I asked father he said son I do not know but when I look at Tikka, Yahyya, Niyazi Its all possible and it will happen he said empathetically. I asked him why he said no reason he said I can see it.

Same feeling happened to me about General sahib. He was talking nice on TV after kicking NS. BUt I knew some how inside its all bogus its just talk he will climb down from his horses. Some times just you get feeling of coiming things. To day general is just pragmatic. I feel I am smarter Than honorable `big Khan`. Even foreign ex-pak were charged by good feeling about general and democracy we got same no more no less.Even Big Khan feels cheated by army.
Does it means people , ordinary , karchi citizen had some times fast future seeing capacity. Wonder that type of research is done in america , foreign countries. Happy new 2003 for every good.
My first and last poem welcoming 2003
Let poors get money
rich get more money
religious get slavation
dark people get wheatish wife.
wheatish get white
expak get milkwhite wife and get milk white babies with witout no brown mixed complexion.
all peoples children get whiter spouses and babies
Mohajirs become white, punjabis loose fat
Sindhis get asif freed and balu. stan find more gas fields
all Pashtuns get longer white beards
Saddam get hart attack and save inconvience to all muslims.
Let indus flow full, with lots of fish. Let every body be happy
welcome 2003 . ......Its not bad at first attempt

Rehan,
Will do.
Also, come to CUNY; we need people like you teaching classes!

thanks samina... though i have brought up ashis nandy who has really given me ways to think about our culture, and this idea of feeling history through the career of faiz was a heartlfelt exercise once, there are more private, perhaps incommunicable experiences i would rather refer to, and i will write as if ``you`` will know what i am writing about, one evening in lahore (where else!) sunny razvi, currently of dawn, who i know from the frontier post in the early 90s, and working for sajjad gul in the late 90s (there i did that again drop public proper nouns as landmarks), and most memorably from a legendary trip we made to india (a legend, again, in my mind), pulled out tanhai and said it should not be read like this but like this... he read it aloud with his trademark disdain (when i know he is not only mocking himself)...

so read tanhai sometimes, not softly as it seems you should, but disdainfully...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz should be a part of every Pakistani College
kid`s reading syllabus.

Ras

It didn`t occur to me that Shias in Pakistan are the same percentage as Muslims in India. Our law and order situation is sorry indeed.

As much as I have tried to be cynical about Faiz I`ve grown to admire him more with passing years. My deep fascination and near obsession with the PTV drama serial TAPISH, makes it almost permanent. The performances in the 5 long tapes are absolutely brilliant, especially Jamal Shah`s and Rubina Ashraf`s. Tapish is basically based on Faiz. Its about university students in Zia`s era. Its just a masterpiece.

Tina Sani sang the soundtrack -``bol`` and ``Mere Palko ko matt dekho`... I watch the drama every new years eve, interesting that you wrote about him.

Faiz`s poems have helped make dreams divisible. He breaks ideals down so nothing seems overwhelming. Your article however seems a little abstract and moves people to judge negatively- its very elitist- The other part of Faiz I don`t enjoy coming to terms with.

Happy new year to all Chowkies. Hope the dramas in our nations make heroes out of us.


Aisha F Sarwari.

Nice parrallels and literary reference points. This is the function of a broadly based essay; to take ideas and events from various disciplines and tie them together.
I have also been using poems as a way of understanding history, and Faiz most particularly; from his poems the reader is allowed into a Pakistan that seems to exist in twillight, in the heart of some Pakistanis, and people all over the world.
Lovely ending.