My Friend Pervez

``....People from both the nations are getting along together and finding that their cultural-historical bonds are stronger than their geographical-political [even religious] divisions. It is this realization of common heritage and similarity that sustains the togetherness. Our friendship is not an isolated case.............``

Despite all this we keep clinging to TNT as if it was part of our faith in Islam.

A very good write-up. Nothing `literature` type--the kind brown-trash is busy churning out in journals in the vain hope that a goraa might notice their pathological germination.

This is on a one-to-one level interaction which the professors (no longer a respectable term) and intellectuals manage in reams of paper-loss . This is fresh and live. Theirs reek of anticeptic, chloroform and formaldehyde. The CHOWK article-morgue and mummy-museums is full of them. Some are still on the autopsy table.

Please write more about such first-hand experiences in first-person. Enough of the `literature` here, the deliberate riddle wrapped in an enigma--the bi-polar wretchedness of the anglicised-writer.

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#1 by Urstruly on February 19, 2004 11:44am PT

Did you have an unfotunate traumatic childhood experience related to a Dhotti?

Regarding the article, its not good, but we have struggled thru many other ``anguish expressing`` articles on the chowk (e.g. there was one by minhas about her anguish with burger class) and expressed sympathy, so we can say that the author is expressing his frustrations. In summary

1) hindoos (indians) are worried about the islamic nukiller bum
2) pakistanis are worried about the hindoo hagemony
3) both are worried about their kids marrying the wrong kind (incl. each others)
4) the author is surprised that parvez has a visa
5) he thinks that phobias are media sustained, hence if denied or ignored will vanish
6) he concludes that non-nris/nrps are deep thinkers and need to be more emotional

Arvind Verma:

A very good reality based article. I had a chance of going through a similar relationship in the late 80s in the USA. We were suitemates and attending same college. No problems ever erupted, except when some of my Pakistani friends visited me from south. Their careless remarks opened a pandora`s box. However, the problems were resolved as soon as my friends left. During our friendship, we were able to appreciate each other`s religion as Great Way of living our individual lives.

But you are right 100%. We were able to continue friendship by not discussing the problems. It may be a hypocritical approach to some like Mahesh G jee (with due respect), but to me that was the most honest way of going about.

At the end of our education, both of us returned to our respective countries, but still are in touch.

Urstruly,

It is less complicated than reading Islamic verses in that frikking madarassa with all gay fundoos. World class perverts!!!

Not a very good article. Both characaters are as much away from reality in Indian subcontinent as they are from their native countries.

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What`s the point of this kind of friendship when you are too scared to discuss the contentious points? This kind of friendship works because desis in foreign land because whether Kashmir gets resolved or not does not affect their day to day life.

I don`t know.

To me friendship with a hindu is a subject as complicated as his dhotti. You seem to have pretty easy ride though.