Pakistan Travelogue I

Saminasha:

No, I did not...can you post it?

#538 by cayenne on April 3, 2005 10:25am PT


Been watching tv again, and the world media has been speculating on the new pope already.One of the names being thrown out is Archbishop Ivan Diaz of Mumbai(


are you serious? Ivan Dias is in the running?

damn...most people from bandra already think god lives in bandra.....now if the pope is also from bandra, they`ll be insufferable..

Stuka,

Did you read Parag Khanna`s NYTimes Travel piece-some strange similarities to your piece....

Nice article Indeed. Perhaps the last paragraph you could have stretched a bit more.
Lovely article!

Re: # 555

Chanda boxes are like the Ultra Sound (Foetal Test) Labs in India- both being the closely held secrets of these societies and considered necessary to their existence................

Veeresh #555, {``Stuka - welcome to the world of being a writer and being quoted out of context. ``}

Veeresh, my dear friend, with that statement are you in any way insinuating that you are a writer and that you have been quoted out of context? Your entire epic, saga, and ``travelogue`` was out of context. :)

Sorry, that was too good to pass up. :)

kaalchakra #554,
Thank you for the kind encouragement. I find your interaction to be a catalyst for all manner of discussions. You sure have a knack for ``innocently`` stirring the pot. Thanks for keeping things interesting and moving in all directions. I enjoy your participation and style. :)

For what it is worth, Dunkin Donuts was founded by William Rosenberg. Whoops, here we go again.

Stuka - welcome to the world of being a writer and being quoted out of context. No visit to Pakistan by an Indian can now be complete without a certification on rampant cleavages, chanda boxes and doughnuts. Oh well.

And why for hamidm2 is at such places at 5:30 in the morning?

re: kardesh # 546

If you can get our next Pope and Grand Mufti Hamidm2 to write those travelogues, you might actually put old man God into well-deserved retirement.

On matters of religion, people who can`t write (like me) try to write, and people who actually can write (like hamidm2 and you) don`t :(

Yours is the smarter choice, but it`s also very unfair, making the lesser lights do all the dirty work!

Tahmed Sahib, #548, #549, {``I was proposing hamidm for pope, actually. We could then also declare him the Grand Mufti of the Equally Grand Muslim Ummah. Kind of like putting the fox in the chicken coop.
or (to use a different anology than the fox), like putting salim incharge of a sorority. ``}

Tahmed Sahib, I second that proporsal of yours. Perhaps we could call him Popalifa as a compounded title. Salim incharge of a sorority would be disaster, based on my success with the ladies on UP - more like saying putting a rooster with the foxes. :)

From the diary of Kaanta Ben:
``Dear ddairy vote day its been. Today mourning mai mara chair ma seet karo chhe toe Indian chokra kofee lena aawu chhe. Mare ko oosmay cent per cent dauut awu chhe. He kame eento our shoop smaylling here and there. I also smaylt to chake vote wos hapeneeng. But oll I kood gate was the hayvenly smayl of heeng tarka on dal. Mmm kay sad chhe and I leeked my choops as I vakantly loooked at de door. And theyn i saw heem. A short, dark Eendian looking fallow loooking ayround in a sheefty fayshon and tweeching his nose like he was smaylling sometheeng. Kustomer toe god chay (apro Gandhijee used to say...no not me mee..but in boooks). So I smiled at heem and told heem ``Naas day to kerm. Are you from india?`` I had to chake sidevays vether Jayant vos lookeeng or note. Jayant ko bhaut jealousy aawu chee, but I vos een luck Jayant was peeking hees nose. But the old faallo seemed to sheever. Gave an order for three dole-arse and foutty saints and rain out of de door. Very strange fallow I told Hasmukh Bhai who is sargaynt weeth the polis here. I was vary luck Husmukh bhai caame in just as that Eendian fallow ran out.``

this is my token interact to appreciate stuka`s fine writing on both yuppy and not-yuppy Pakistans. also this thing should touch 1000, it has been a while an article on chowk got to that mark.

postscript to #549
In continuation of religious studies:

Q: why was jesus was not born in veeresh`s neighborhood?

A: they couldnt find three wise men or a virgin.

PPS: Veeresh. Just kidding.

#548 continued: or (to use a different anology than the fox), like putting salim incharge of a sorority.

salim #543: I was proposing hamidm for pope, actually. We could then also declare him the Grand Mufti of the Equally Grand Muslim Ummah. Kind of like putting the fox in the chicken coop.

re:#538 by cayenne
considering that India is seen as a fertile ground for conversion, do not be surprised if the next Pope is an Indian. That agenda of converting heathrens (as christians would call anyone not of their faith) in India is what the last pope was fond of and took to his grave. So, i hear.
Sridhar