A Journey Through Our Conscience

malik,

.......... in case you are confused about the kulla in ``zanaan-kulla``, no woman would use the word ``kunna`` in front of her children ...........right ?

165:MalikJahanzeb

Locate unplugged. It is above on this page on the right side of the line which shows date, archive etc. right below: ``gymkhana.

Click on unpulugged. Page will open. Where it says ``off the wall discussion`` click. Page opens.

Now here, you either post new topic or post on an existing topic.

Msa-eb aur thhay pUr jee kaa jaana


P.S: shairoan kay intikhaab ney rusvaa kiyaa...

www.urdupoint.com
www.eurdubazaar.net
www.loveurdu.com
www.urdu123.com
www.apniurdu.com
www.urdustan.com
www.alqamaronline.com
www.nazrana0.com (notice zero not `O`)


are some goog urdu sites. Any other you know?

RE: #158

Kaalchakra,

You need to cease insidious provocations: such as rewording The Quran on Human Embryonic Development as ``human embryos found inside quran``.

Unless of course, you`re unable to discuss such topics in a civilized manner.

I could respond by leveling your beliefs, books, and your entire existence with all its tentacles in a similar short sentence, but since you`ve demostrated your inferiority yourself, I don`t need to humiliate you any further.

If you can`t come up with an intelligent question/answer then silence will maintain your worthiness more than anything else.

Until you`ve acquired such civility, I`ll remove from my screen the miniscule dusty dot representative of you :-)~

``Yes... but here is where the truth comes out... legal systems don`t matter in our part of the world... which is why despite being legally a theocratic-dictatorship, Pakistan is way ahead of India, a so called secular democracy, as a progressive and liberal society``

Above is a gem from an educated pakistani, manolives aka YLH aka the great friend of dost mitter and stuka. He has a valid point, even though honour killing is legal, there are still women in pakistan, even though rape conviction needs 4 male witnesses, he knows of one woman who has not been raped.

This is the reality of pak education, they are the obstacles to any progress, to any change.

m-j

that link i posted....

it has ghalib in urdu, roman urdu, devnagri

just click

and enjoy

for those who are busy in ranting their shit over echoboom,

ham-pesha-o-ham-mashrab-o-ham-raaz hay mera,
Ghalib ko bura kiyoo kaho,,, acha ! mere agay ?

:-D

MalikJahanzeb: 161

Shayad yeh sunaa ho *:

Kal University meiN kisi suit-posh sey
poochha yeh meiN naiN,``aap haiN kya koi seargent``?
kehnay lagay keh ``aap ko maaloom bhee naheeN?
I am the head of the Urdu-Department``

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Let us share shairs . Unplugged is a better venue for that.
Click on unplugged file on top. and go to ``off the wall discussions``. Lot of rapid responses
and discussion possible there on a subject of your choosing.

A lot more fun place.

It is not like the Phenyle and formaldehyde reeking frontpage.

* Iss rasmulkhat meiN likhnaa aisay hai jaisay Taj-mehal meiN zina-bil-jabr...Kyaa kraiN Ghulaamee

``Ai saakinaan-i kuunj-e Qafas subh sey saba
suuntee hee jaey gee, soo-ey Gulzaar. Kuuchh kaho``

Haaaey.....

Re: # 164 echo:

I have exactly the same problem iwth this rasm-ul-khat. temporal sent me a nice link on ghalib but when i knew that it was in roman, saara maza khaak mein mil gaya.

it is like i can`t adore a beatiful eastern woman if she is wearing jeans and t-shirt. similarly, poetry`s beauty is in it`s native khat.

you didn`t specify how can we locate a channel in unplugged?

masaayeb aur thay, magar jee ka jaana,
ajab ik saaniha saa ho gaya hay...

sirhaanay Meer ke aahistah bolo,
abhi tuk rotay rotay so gaya hay.....

hamidm uncle,

please go ahead with your plans. we really lack `zanaan-kunnas` on chowk. and by the way, i was noticing the trend that more and more articles are comming from women, it`s something like `qehet-ur-rujaal` where men are only there only to bravo women writers.

once i was on my way from mareerh-hasan stop to chandni chowk in pindi, two bearded, god fearing gentlemen were talking ahead of me in the hiace wagon. one said, `janab, you know rasool-e-pak had said that one of hte signs of armagadon would be that men will be seen hanging on tall trees at the bottom of which will be seventy women each, viciously waiting for them to come down so that they can extinguish their lust`. `indeed, indeed`, the second god fearing man replied. then the two men said touba touba.

touba touba

Re: # 163

malikj,

............``zanan-kulla`` !........... i haven`t heard that word in ages - you must have some roots in the frontier ......... another word my mother often used was ``zan-mureed`` ........... actually zanaan-kulla is used to describe an effeminate man while zan-mureed is ``one who worships women``........ therfore, i would describe myself as zan-mureed - and quite proud of it , i might add ! (not that i have much of a choice with two daughters and a wife that run the house )...........

......... anyway ..... i am convinced that our horrible attitude towards women, which borders on extreme misogyny, is the direct result of segregation of sexes .........we grow up without really knowing any women other than out mothers and sisters and as a result we tend to view all other women as mere sex objects ............ as adults we are quite incapable of communicating with them other than through insipid marital sex or violent sex outside of marriage, i.e. rape ............. therfore, it is good to spend time with women so that we don`t grow up to be perverts ............

Re: # 172 hamidm uncle, i have never heard this word `kulla` unless you are using it as `zanan-kullah` as in `ab-dullah`. my mother is from indian background and she passed on this term to me without any problems with the word (i wonder how can this word sound wahoosh to you). it describes a sitaution in which a man is too much in the women folks. either he has the bonafied gifts of nature or he seeks their company for some other reasons. by the way, there is a well proven trend that brothers of more than 4 girls usually evolve into something like a `zanan-kunna` even though they don`t necessarily become `zan-mureed`. has to do with nature.

for you, i don`t think you can become any of that by virtue of your daughters and wife. you need some hard core stuff for that. it`s too late for you. the best you can become is a `miyaan` and a `dadi`.

Re: # 188

malikj,

........ in pushto ``kunna`` is slang for private parts and therfore zanan-kunna is not a polite word ..........kunna also mean catamite ....... catamites are usually madrassa students ..........

Re: # 196 wow ! that`s a lot of general knowledge for me. that`s why not knowing is sometimes a blessing. otherwise, we would have to use the less aesthetic word of kulla.

guys, please spare a min to sign this patition. though it looks like a joke but what else to expect?

Click here to sign marathon patition
https://petitiononline.securesites.com/Rozan/petition.html

teshah,

That is a good post. Tell the world what the book says. As the indians have done, manusmriti is crap, so we legislate against sati, dowry and the lot. Is there any one in pakistan bold enough to say that the book is crap, no not at all, it is the islamic republic of pakistan. It is time that the fools of pakistan the ylh and the temporals accept this reality and do not try to present pakistan as a progressive country.
What a tribute to enlightened moderation, marathons are banned for women. Stuka, take not, where are you when we need you. Read dawn, do not go to pakistan for two days and declare pakistan society as similar to singapore.

echo:

nice to know that there are people here who have spared some of their likings for the language of their earlier generations. well, technically urdu might not be our 100% heritage but in terms or embodying the largest subset of our heritage, it doesn`t have a better compatitor. at least it is workable.

i sometimes also yearn for availability of an urdu portal on the internet. but it is the sluggishness of us as a nation that there is not a single quality solution out there. chowk has the resources and support to do something like this but probably its agenda is too obsessed with language of hte master. but tell me, has a group of people asked this from chowk seriously? from techonological point of view, it requires almost no work on their part.

i will keep looking for online space that can provide better access.

teshah ji:

i believe sajal javid is a female. unless men are now allowed admission to kinnaird college. :)