Of Nostalgia in Saudi Arabia

Probably, it will make more sense if #16 and #17 hook up together to discuss their brilliant ideas. The result may be a sensible post. Good luck guys :)

Rather than flogging chowk with your sophomoric opinions, you should post something conciliatory...for a drastic change!

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#18 Rant of a frustrated soul.


Hook up, for your own sake!
Its high time.

with all due respect, and not necessarily in defense of #18 who has asked me never to mention her name again, i fail to understand the mentality of people who suggest that the writer of #18 writes the way she does because she is sexually frustrated, or needs to hook up. i have questioned men who have said this, not just about her, but other women here at chowk, but obviously women are not free from this ignorance as well.

to not agree with her, or to be offended by her sarcasm is one thing, and to respond to that. but what is the point of these pointed personal attacks on her lack of sexual activity, or a lovelife?

grow the hell up!

#22: Sorry to burst your bubble but your points are neither decent nor intelligent enough to be considered worth reading. I do not visit Chowk to interact with indecent and cheap characters. I hope you find more people like yourself who can assist you in overcoming your insecurities.

Women work and have always WORKED in any muslim or non-muslim country. It is NOT a concept developed by the ``advanced`` west. Men & Women WORK for money beacause of some need. Naukraanis, Jamaadaarnis, and field-workwomen can be seen anywhere in Pakistan or everywhere..WORKING! without the westoxication of brain.

One does not have to Hollywoodise, Bollywoodise, Follywoodise or become a KanjaRR look-alike to give an impression of bein ``educated`` and ``modern``. Those days are gone ever since Islamic attire, manners, and style became fashionable to flaunt.

One dates oneself when one equates learning and earning with non-islamic behaviour. A product of pre-revolution Iran.

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Burqa no longer a barrier to Success

New from Daily Pioneer, India. Friday September 5, 2003
News by Neharika Mathur : The Pioneer

Burqa-clad women pore over thick journals, disentangle themselves from parachutes, play table-tennis while seated on wheelchairs or hold up an award in triumph. No, we are not witnessing utopia. This is actually happening in a country earlier known for subjugating the fairer sex.


Iran has now committed itself to encouraging women in all fields. An exhibition of photographs that concluded at the Dr Zakir Hussain and His Contemporary Archives and Portrait Gallery, Jamia Milia Islamia yesterday gave us some insight into the extent to which the women of this country have benefited from new government policies.


``Women in Iran are now participating in all kinds of fields - industry, music, computers, architecture, television programming, education, sports, music - you name it. We have tried to portray their achievements on the occassion of the birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh,`` explains the Iran Culture House official in-charge of audio-vision.


And he is firmly convinced Iranian women have more potential to grow. ``They are luckier than Indian women. After marriage, while Indian women have to take on their husband`s names, Iranian women are allowed to retain their identity.``


Interestingly, the photographs also show young female students educating older women. ``The government has made it a rule that every child who joins school would have to bring a certificate their parents are educated. There are special centres where classes are held for imparting basic education to elders. The aim is to encourage adult literacy and now almost 90 per cent of Iranians are educated.``


There are shots of a woman bus driver, Masoumeh Bolaghi, cheerfully dropping the passengers at various stops. The first woman bus driver in Iran has begun work on an inter-city route, heralding a new era in a country dominated by men. A qualified nurse, she began her new career driving between the capital Tehran and Karaj, 60 kilometres away. Bolaghi is not the only professional driver in Iran. Probably the best known is the country`s first woman taxi driver, Zahra Lagarudi. She works for the all-women Nesa Taxi Service in the holy city of Qom, which began operating in September. The first company of its kind in the country, it only carries women and boys under 12.

``Women are now walking shoulder-to-shoulder with men. Walk into any office in the country and you will see an equal proportion of men and women. It is surely an indicator of the extent to which our country has progressed,`` says the official.

We surely agree!

Ok, so.

According to #18,

#16 and #17 should hook up.

And according to #22

#18 should hook up.

Who really needs growing up?

Ref echoboom #23

[There are shots of a woman bus driver, Masoumeh Bolaghi, cheerfully dropping the passengers at various stops. The first woman bus driver in Iran has begun work on an inter-city route, heralding a new era in a country dominated by men. A qualified nurse, she began her new career driving between the capital Tehran and Karaj, 60 kilometres away. Bolaghi is not the only professional driver in Iran. Probably the best known is the country`s first woman taxi driver, Zahra Lagarudi. She works for the all-women Nesa Taxi Service in the holy city of Qom, which began operating in September. The first company of its kind in the country, it only carries women and boys under 12.]

So why is giving up nursing in favor of driving a bus liberating for a woman?

Considering that she is allowed to carry only women and boys under 12, and as a nurse she might have been tending to male patients of all ages (in pre-Khomeini days at least), why is this a victory for women?

hmm.. i belive its never too late to start.. if journalism was ur passion, i`m sure you would have found the time out from ur family rituals and spent some time on writing. But then again I dont blame you in our society the asian always take a secondary seat when it comes to family. Family needs to be given full priorty but one must not neglect oneself, you as an individual also have some desires by suppressing them for a very long time will only lead to bottle up destruction. I must appluad the wester women who have the knack to put themselves n the same threshold as ther family. I mean writing was one thing you could have carried on simutaneoly along with the earliers years of ur family life. Today six years down the lane you would have been self satisfied wih yourself because you were doing something completly for urself, something you enjoyed, something which gave you a sense of accomplishmnet. Its never too late.. grab a pen and paper and just scribbe something.. and you will b amazed how thoughts will start flowing... dont wait for oppurtunities, go iout here and creat them for urself.. u will never have enough time to write, you will have to take that time out for urself.. u deserve it.. so get out there lady.. n show us that u cando more than cooking chicken biryanis...