Monsoon Days

#10 by jay on July 7, 2003 2:26am PT


WHAT A MORON

#8 by JAY

It is amazing how some jaundiced brains can thrust such benign writings into the caldrone of parochial hatred. I thoroughly enjoyed Monsoon Days and savored the choice of words, stopping often to appreciate the sublimity of monsoons and the language used to describe it.

#17 No kanch-ki-chooris in your sheesh-mahal then .... ?!

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In India, monsoons bring 3 phone problems: Branches (or entire trees) falling on the lines... and dampness creeping into the machine making it kaput...and lines getting crossed.

For the second one, in our area people generally keep a 100W bulb close to the machine...which seems to work...except during the daily power cut.

But why lines get crossed during the rains is beyond me!

RE #18 by rsaxena:
Yes and you the glass in windows kaanch?
yaar ek zaban (bhasha for you) tau theek bol lo.

RE #17 by hamidm2:
Look at by khamkhwa. (#6) and you will the find the answer.
Both kaanch and sheesha are used in the vernacular, sometimes interchangeably. You have to invest in a Qaeda (not kaeda or Al-Qaeda!) sometime. Or may be all those dead cells are taking their toll on you. tsk tsk.

RE Bina:
A delightful read. As khamkhwa pointed out you may have an older map or were too excited about your birthday and monsoon. Happy BD.

Regards,
Aasif

the continuing education of hamidm

(begum ...aapki begum...say ma`azrat kay saath)


sheesha: it is now also fancy bubble pipe (hookah)with flavoured tobacco

behkar: never heard of it...perhaps you mean ba`ghaar that would be taRka

aur kuch aur bhee kehna chahtay thay...laikin bhool ga`aye...

...t

re: hamidm


shisha = mirror
kaanch = glass

..one reflects your mug back, the other does not...

another indian conspiracy

........... how come i have never heard the word ``garamchamak``....... we always called it ``bijli``, like in ``bijli chamak rahee hai``............... is it like ``behkar`` ( tarka for most of us) or ``kaanch`` (shisha) ........... the other day mrs hamidm broke a glass and as the kids walked by she said, ``beta, dekhna, kaanch lag jai ga``............ i looked at her in amazement and life has never been the same since ..........where the heck did she learn that ....... kaanch, indeed!....................next thing you know i will be eating dal with behkar in a plate made out of kaanch when garamchamak strikes me!

.........maybe jay can shed some chamak on this - sounds like an indian conspiracy.............

is there anything...i mean anything written here (on chowk) that that the pesky interactor (especially the kind who only write interacts, not articles or essays or god forbid poems...nudge, nudge, wink, wink) can not turn into a slinging india pakistan hindu muslim bashing?...think i know the answer...poems...they avoid poetry with zeal and fervour unmatched;)

jay,

.......... give it up!.......... stop wasting your time ................ it is not good for you - find some other hobby before you drive yourself nuts.........

£ #12 by harimau on July 7, 2003 7:25am PT
£ Ref veeresh #8

£ [Can you imagine, EVERY cloud crossing over into Pakistan was first a visitor in India?
£ This is like aapro Clinton nee aapree Begum Elizabeth Sahiba.]

£ Do the clouds line up in front of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for visas? Do £ they cross at approved checkpoints such as Wagah?

Not necessary - esp if they carry some ptoash, charcoal, maybe saltpetre, along with trinitro....and ofcourse if they originated in the Indus basin. After the water from there goes to the sea and then the clouds...you gte the drift....

Ref veeresh #8

[Can you imagine, EVERY cloud crossing over into Pakistan was first a visitor in India? This is like aapro Clinton nee aapree Begum Elizabeth Sahiba.]

Do the clouds line up in front of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for visas? Do they cross at approved checkpoints such as Wagah?

Monsoon clouds know no borders ... or time ... imagine nearly two thousand years ago Kalidas`s lovesick exiled hero in ``Meghdoot`` asks the Monsoon clouds to take his message to his wife in his Himalayan hometown (with detailed flight plans!) ... and this on the first day of Asara, right about now ...

Favorite Monsoon songs anyone ?

Aaiye barishon ka mausam hai * Pankaj Udaas

Ab ke sawan * Shubha Mugdal

Barsat ki raat

Ghanan Ghanan * Lagaan

Ek Ladki Bhigi Bhagi si * Kishore Kumar

Mian Ki Malhaar * Tansen (only kidding)

only downside of arrival of monsoon is that it signals the beginning of the end of mango season. and btw, i am the only one who is puzzled by the fact that mangoes have not caught on with non-pakis?

``The rain in India has crossed the border effortlessly, the clouds already settled in and unpacking, like visitors announcing they are going to be here for a long stay. ``

There is one more that has spread seamlessly from kashmir to quetta, the jihadic killings. The products that scream out from the 200,000 madrassas are having difficulties in finding their ways to heaven, getting into kashmir is becoming increasingly difficlult, like the monsoon it has spread to other parts of pakistan, and they have settles like visitors unloading their strapped grenades into the crowded shia mosques. Yes they are here to stay, as you say, and more and more will be unloading the products of their education.

In this monsoon season you have more to complain about than a wet birthday. May be when the rain pours, may be it is time to reflect, a little different from your article on karachi, where you try to whitewash the blood stains in the streets. May be the sunshine after the down pur should let you see through the low clouds, to see the state of pakistan. What is remarkable about the quetta killigs is that the there killers re shot down by the security guards.
An islamic country where the shia mosques are to be protected by armed guards has little reason to be proud of, and stll little even to exist. When you look out for the next rain clouds in this monsoon, look out for Su30s with triclour markings, they are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.