Books Every Globalized Pakistani & Indian Middleclass Youngster Must Own …

good satire!

Here are some more books soon to hit the market.

``Fathering without Mothering`` by Arundhiti Roy

``Low-Fat Diesel Cooking`` by Maulana Fazal Ur Rehman

``Long March: Kargil to Islamabad`` by Syed Pervez Musharraf Dehlvi

``Syed Pervez Musharraf Dehlvi`` by Ch. Shujaat Hussein

``Feminine Males, Masculine Females - a case study of Nehru dynasty`` by Yasser Latif Hamdani

``Making a Killing by Looking the Other way`` by Musarrat Shaheen

“I am absolutely, totally confused and proud of it!” That’s so gay...

To # 7 is BJP not the brain child of RSS and VHP? Basically they are the driving force behind BJP and they have a very open stand about globalization. I agree that they are in minority but they are the policy makers/think tanks behind BJP philosophy. So how you can differentiate two?

farhat hushpuppy`s was really funny.

it is not a coincidence that the religious right, the military, the landed gentry and/or aristocracy all are right-wing bedpartners. in them reside the seeds of fascism.

Nadeem..
An entertaining departure from that madness Cactus Gas. This is genuine satire. We all know you are good at it. But I`ve always wondered about infamous writers like you. What happens if everything becomes according to your ideas of economics, politics and society? Will you remain as crtical and sardonic about them too or will Mr.Nadeem Farooq Paracha finally give in to become a conformist? Just curious.

the ``meatball days`` and ``hijabless`` parts cracked me up. so true, so true.

See nikki, when Pak and Ind were having tensions we could not trade suzuki parts for Indian women. So we kinda got deprived. But now things are getting better. Paki`s are getting there share of brown ``cat``, so I think it will all be good in a little bit. And of course as the average Indian is beyond all depths of stupidity, he/she/it cannot be enlightened. So leave these things to people who are educated and not average stupid Indians: The Pakistanis. I have one question for you. Why are Indian girls don`t wanna do it on the first date? Do they seek permission from their father`s first? Just curious to know.

Good piece Paracha. Good to know you haven`t lost your touch. You should be writing more. We all need a little humour in our lives.

Entertaing and has valid points and observations about today`s modern ways and religious confusion in young peoples heads, but this is certainly not
one of your best satire stuff NFP. It seems to be written in a hurry. I`ll vote for your novel Acidity and 21st century Psychobabble piece as your best anytime.

``the westernised, decadent, retrogressive and spoiled-sport anti-capitalism anti-glabalization activists to stop attacking McDonald’s joints and shopping malls``

Since when did Leftists become reps of the West???

``instead invest their energies in more constructive, indigenous, nationalistic and progressive acts like attacking old Muslim mosques, wrinkled Christian missionaries ``

Yup, like the Swadeshi Jagran Manch that is so right wing it wants nothing to do with western systems like Capitalism...

..oh wait..

MAYBE INDIANS AND PAKISTANIS PERCIEVE BRILLIANCE TWO DIFFERENT WAYS??

NFP, stick to commenting on Pakistan. U are so completely wrong BJP/Globalization/ RSS satire I don`t even know where to start.

Even the other stuff, seems like the Left is getting desperate in these times of irrelavance :)

Hope you got a chance to see the ``leftist`` Manmohan Singh`s interview on the Charlie Rose show on PBS. The ``leftist`` said that experience had taught him that the only way to eliminate poverty is to encourage the creators of wealth. Boo Hoo went the leftists in India for it is a choice between a Capitalist Congress and the Capitalist BJP.

It is the Far Right RSS which actually is a minority in the BJP that could not press forth its economic agenda and so had to be content with pressing forward it social agenda. The difference between Congress and BJP is real, but only in the social sense, not the economic policy and attitude to globalization. Hence the relative calm of the Indian middle class once the Leftists were put in place and MM became PM. Notice the embarresing faliure of the BJP to become a meaningful opposition?

It would be even more interesting for you to read up on the performance of the Communist Government in West Bengal. Though the Leftists have been loud in talking against globalization at the Central level where they do not form part of the government, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Communist CM of Bengal, apologized to the people for excessive Union activity in the past. They have curtailed the rights of unions to strike, made labor laws more friendly to investment climate and welcomes foreign investment.

The hard right of the RSS is against globalization ofcourse. But they have always had more in common with the Left than the moderates.

Another rabbit out of NFP`s mad hat. I love you when you are at your bitter most, Nadeem. This is when you are at your best. Your usual sarcastic critique and jibes at multinationals, corporate capitalism and religion keep finding new ways of attack. Keep them coming.

Very funny...

but you forgot, ``Excuse me, Could I Borrow Your Candle?``: The Faria Alam Guide on Desi Woman Enterpreneurship`` and ``Porn! Another Thing to Hold Against Salman Rushdie, Especially Since I Havent Read His Books!``

sorry...couldnt resist...

I agree....

NFP

Brilliant Piece

Manto
``does the erosion of the left have anything to do with the onslaught of international TV?``

I think the answer is that people stopped using their own minds and ascribe to all that was thrown at them from the tube. NOT Surprisingly all this was capitalist in nature, and thus the erosion of the thinking Left!!!!!

Brilliant .... a very powerful critique of increasingly global capitalist society and its interplay with ideological right wing of the west and religious extremism in the east.... India under the BJP and allies was a case in point. By allowing left to have the sway... the masses of India atleast have rejected this new society...

Tariq AliJr bit was awesome.....it is so indicative of the ambigious nature of globalization .... We see the `middle path` shrinking.... the onslaught of Cable TV is such that you find an extremely polarized society in a city like Karachi (thankfuly it is a little better in Lahore) ... there are increasingly only 2 kinds of people in Pakistan....

1) Those who accept the global culture completely

2) Those who reject it completely

a far cry from the erstwhile moderate society that existed when the college campuses still had a strong leftist presence.... does the erosion of the left have anything to do with the onslaught of international TV?

-YLH

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