The Infidel

outdone yourself godot.. thank u most emphatically

Re: Samina, #22

Thanks, Samina.

Godot Sahib,

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Great story, effective translation.

Re: Ras, #18

Thank you, Ras, for your very kind comments.

I don’t think I could be more open at Chowk. That`s what I really am. Here, I’m an open book. All Chowkies know alomost everything about me, including what I look like, except for perhaps my real name, and that is irrelevant.

If you need to know something specific about me, drop me a line at godotatchowk@yahoo.com.

this world is really made for the likes of munni and pushkar. most people are too scared to be anything other than an inconsequential extra.

Godot #15
Thats nice of you, Godot, apology accepted.

And do keep translating :).

This is possibly one of the finest pieces of writings to ever grace CHOWK.

To translate the works of Urdu masters is no easy task.

Thanks Godot. Now you can at least come out of the closet and let us

know who you really are.

Ras

Re: Andro, #16

This is going off on a tangent on this board, but you referred to my post on Chowk Unplugged about Amrita Pritam...

Okay! In my defense...What you don`t know is that I`ve been out of touch with Urdu literature for about 30 years. I read Urdu at a fairly young age and left Pakistan for America. During all this time I did not touch Urdu and lost all my connection with the written language (and at this point in time, English has become my primary language.) It`s only very recently that, thanks to Chowk, I`ve picked up Urdu. Now there! If you feel that strongly about Pritam, then maybe I am guilty and should be put in a solitary confinement for a while...And to compensate, I must translate one of Pritam`s story next for Chowk.

#15 by godot on February 15, 2003 11:40am PT

Anybody who does not know Amrita Pritamshould be jailed involuntarily

Re: afrasiyab, #1

Thanks. We hope to see your translated work at Chowk also.


Re: Ashok, #5

An artist—and Ismat was certainly one—should be judge by her art and her talent alone, not by her personal life. Personal lives of artists belong to the realm of the tabloids and are for the feeble minded.


Re: Saima, #6

Thank you so much, Saima, and you’re very very welcome. You are right. This is a delightful story. I found the innocence of the two children exceedingly charming. To me, this story captures the very essence of Chowk.


Re: sadna, #11

That is so sweet of you, sadna. Thanks.

PS: I am so sorry about my outburst against you a while back. As Shankar said, I act like a complete idiot at times. My apologies. Next time, I’ll think before I leap.


Re: Urstruly, #12

Thanks!


Re: Banjaara, #13

Thank you so much (and I think you have a wonderful alias.)


Re: t, #14

Thanks (I think you liked the translation.)

Yes, I did bring back with me a suitcase full of Urdu books (I could not believe how many bookstores there were in Lahore. Very impressed.) I haven’t read anyone of them. ‘Kafir’ was the first one I read (with a title like that, which Chowkie wouldn’t!!!) I do hope to contribute my translations to Chowk on a regular basis.

Godot:

welcome back:)

now that youy have the suitcase full of books hope you will share them here on a regular basis...

rgds,

t

Very sweet. Godot, thanks very much.

Well done Godot.

YLH2

I think you are confusing Chughtai with Qura-tul-Ain Haider.

[I am simply amazed at this story written in Urdu from a female writer in Pakistan.....ahmadzai.
She had believed in Pakistan, until the Ayub Regime disappointed her, and like many other Pakistanis she too fled..finding refuge in India... ylh2]

I am learning a new history.Ismat chughtai- a Pakistani ?? Did she ever live in Pakistan.I shall be grateful to these two interactors to please educate me on this point.
Regards.
PS: Godot, very well done...congratulations.

Ismat Chughtai along with Saadat Hassan Manto was one of the best writers South Asia has ever produced... She had believed in Pakistan, until the Ayub Regime disappointed her, and like many other Pakistanis she too fled... finding refuge in India...

How long are we as a Nation going to persecute our most valuable treasurE?

#4 by waqaralisheikh on February 13, 2003 8:39pm PT
``I will attest to the fact that we do not discriminate in Pakistan. We treat minorities equally, provided they know their place in society. ``

True...the Pakistani minorities can`t even dream of burning a train full of paksitani muslims (like the burning of the Indian train full of hindus in gujrat..by the Indian minorities)..
Of course most of the paksitani minorities converted into the mainstream religion so as to stay happy and those who remained hindus know their place..and are servile.