Chowk Tale

``All over the world people are agitating, vacillating or salivating over the big War question, but I feel strangely detached from it all``

All over the world, depending on their time zone, people are sleeping, getting up, commuting, working, going home and spending time with their family, and yes switching on the news channell once in a while to see the news with a sense of detachment.

In some parts of the world, people are wondering where their next meal will come from and would feel a strange sense of detachment if they were told about Iraq or Pakistan or any other place outsoide their own environment.

It might be disconcerting for some, perfectly valid for others, but a sense of detachment is required to go through life. You are fortunate that inspite of being a Pakistani, you happen to be educated and middleclass or more. Same as I, and Indian belonging to the same minority.

There are many in Iraq for who the war will be a blessing, and some for whom it will mean the end of their lives. We all need to build our coccoon, and you have apparently succeeded in creating your own. That`s a good thing isn`t it?

Brilliant.

There are some ideas in this piece that might be developed further in another essay, short story, poem, prose poem, play, etc.

Just to let you know, I got chills at one point in this piece...and that you know, for a writer is a very good sign!

Shandana:
being somewhat familiar with rejection myself...i sympathise :-)
`tis a good piece!
ana

shandy:

...agree with samm...

...guilt is a very powerful emotive force...and you seem to have channelised it well here...now let`s see if you can turn your attention to some pending mail;)

...t

slightly off-tangent: relates to Khaki story in Chowk:

11 brigadiers promoted to generals in pakistan.

Now these people will get the 50 acres land ``perk``, further diminishing land-mass available for mere mortals in pakistan.

A piping hot brew of the smoldering realities of our schizophrenic world characterized by the separation between thought processes and emotion. It must be quite a thing to be a Minhas.

Got to meet that maid of yours....

Strange world we live in. Let us hope for peace.

Ras

Loved it!

Really liked it! Thank you.

``. They have other things to be happy about though. Children, grandchildren, advancements in fat free and sugar free food technology.``

Yup, Dada`s rejoicing in his latest discovery; a shop near Water Pump that sells sugar-free Gulab Jamun!

Warm regards,

Aamir

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Questions, choices, consequences . . .

1) Why Zambia?

2) Why snap at anybody who deserves it?

3) Why not Headless Chicken?

4) And finally, why is white wine better than red, usually?

Shandana:
Déjà vu! If you were truly immune, you would not have written this. What many people in this world do not realise is that after one has exposed oneself and beaten a retreat, it isn’t an ivory tower one is sitting in. But a fragile bubble that might burst and push you back into the flotsam. Being “silly, selfish, self indulgent and misinformed” is often a security shield for ornery mortals. Our ‘djinn and tonic’…

Farzana

Liked it!

Liked the distracted nature of the article...musing between the important and the trival...

Ciao

That was good. Thoughts pouring out in words. Honest. Straightforward. Intense. sensitive. No make up. No interruptions. Raw & clear.

In good mood, with happy emotions, you would write so wonderfully and effective. Things with rainbows, music, fragrance, joy.

thanks for reading people :)

just so you know...its chickenpox. as hubby puts it ``beam me up spotty!``

shandana

Hope you get well soon!