Love On The Line Of Control, a Story by Col Dharam Pal

For the south Asian literary kind ,here is a web site withpic of all up & coming writers fromSouth Asia .Since this is a thread which calls for better understanding between the two countries in particular & all other neighbouring countries of South Asia ,i think you may start knowing about each others.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/authlist_d.html

The Literary Recordings Project



Name Language

Aboobacker, Sara Kannada Writer

Adalja, Varsha Gujarati Writer

Anand (P.Satchidanandan) Malayalam Writer

Anand, Mulk Raj English Writer

Ashokamithran Tamil Writer

Azmi, Kaifi Urdu Writer

Bandyopadhyay, Atin Bengali Writer

Basu, Bani Bengali Writer

Bhattacharya, Suchitra Bengali Writer

Chatterjee, Upamanyu English Writer

Chattopadhyay, Sanjeev Bengali Writer

Chhotray, Gopal Oriya Playwright

Chittal, Yashwant Kannada Writer

Dalal, Suresh Gujarati Writer

Daruwalla, Keki N. English Poet

Das, Manoj Oriya Writer

Deshpande, Govind Purushottam Marathi Writer

Devi, Mahasveta Bengali Writer

Dhasal, Namdev Laxman Marathi Writer

Duggal, Kartar Singh Punjabi Writer

Dwivedi, Rewa Prasad Sanskrit Writer

Fazli, Nida Urdu Poet-Lyricist

Gadgil, Gangadhar Gopal Marathi Writer

Gaikwad, Laxman Maruti Marathi Writer

Gangopadhyay, Sunil Bengali Writer

Ghosh, Sankha Bengali Poet

Goswami, Indira Assamese Writer

Goswami, Joy Bengali Poet

Guha, Buddhadeb Bengali Writer

Hiranandani, Popati R. Sindhi Writer

Hyder, Qurratulain Urdu Writer

Kamleshwar Hindi Writer

Khushwant Singh English Writer

Krishnan, Rajam Tamil Writer

Kumari, Lalita P. (Olga) Telugu Writer

Lakshmi, C. S. (Ambai) Tamil Writer

Mahapatra, Sitakant Oriya Writer

Mukhopadhyay, Sirshendu Bengali Writer

Mukhopadhyay, Subhash Bengali Poet

Mukundan, M. Malayalam Writer

Nair, M. T. Vasudevan Malayalam Writer

Padgaonkar, Mangesh Marathi Writer

Paul, Joginder Urdu Writer

Rao, Nagabhairava Koteswara Telugu Poet

Rath, Ramakanth Oriya Poet

Ray, Pratibha Oriya Writer

Reddy, C. Narayana Telugu Poet

Roy, Arundhati English Writer

Sahni, Bhisham Hindi Writer

Satchidanandan, K. Malayalam Poet

Sen, Nabaneeta Dev Bengali Writer

Sethia, Kanhaiyalal Rajasthani Poet

Shad, Arjan Sindhi Writer

Sharma, Ram Karan Sanskrit Writer

Shukla, Rama Kant Sanskrit Writer

Singh, Kedar Nath Hindi Writer

Sivasankari Tamil Writer

Sobti, Krishna Hindi Writer

Vaidehi Kannada Poet

Vairamuthu Tamil Poet

Verma, Nirmal Hindi Writer

Zacharia, Paul Malayalam Writer



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Library of Congress

Comments: New Delhi Office (June 25, 2001)

Explaining it to an American Friend





About Poll

How should the United States handle the September 11 attacks?

Diplomatic pressure and a public trial (19)

51%



Military retaliation (18)

48%



Total Votes: 37

Explaining it to an American Friend









Israeli Zionist teams are training Indian forces in Indian occupied Kashmir: Jane`s

Updated on 2001-08-17 13:45:26





WASHINGTON, August 17 (PNS): Israeli intelligence agencies have ``several teams`` now in Kashmir training Indian occupation forces to fight Kashmiri Mujahideen groups operating there.

``Israel is understood to be ``heavily involved`` in helping New Delhi combat Mujahideen and this is part of the intensifying of relations between the security apparatus of the two countries, said a report on Jane`s Terrorism and Security Monitor.

It gave no specific details of the cooperation or deployment, but said the moves ``fits into Israel`s increasing focus on events in Central Asia, and as far as Indonesia``.

Recent reports in the Israeli media also speak of increased exchanges between New Delhi and Tel Aviv, including one account of a phone conversation between India`s foreign minister Jaswant Singh and Israel`s Shimon Peres in which they discussed the security issues facing their countries.

Although Singh did not express or mentioned anything on Israel`s brutal action against Palestinian Mujahideen and, on the contrary, had plenty of questions, Peres is said to have explained the rationale of the Israeli counterattacks.

Explaining it to an American Friend

An expanation of the verse with some comments of my own.

Allah the Almighty says:

``Do not kill the person God has forbidden to kill, except with

justification. Whoever is killed unjustly, We have appointed to his

next-of-kin authority (for revenge) but let him not be extravagent in

killing: for surely he is helped by the law``

[Surah al Israa (17): 33]

Baidawi, the Quranic exegesist writes:

Regarding ``Do not kill the person God has forbidden to kill, except with

justification``; the exception is with regards to one of three cases:

unbelief after previous belief, adultery after having led a virtous life and

the intentional homicide of a believer.

Regarding ``Whoever is killed unjustly``; means without the death being

deserved according to the law

Regarding ``We have appointed to his next of kin``; refers to the one who

administers their affairs after death, that is, the heir.

Regarding ``authority (for revenge)``; refers to authority to carry out the

punishment prescribed for homicide on him who is to be punished, or to

undertake retaliation (qisas) upon the one who committed homicide. Since

Allah says in the verse `whoever is killed unjustly`, this shows that the

killing must be an intentionally hostile act, since mere error is not

characterised as unjust.

Regarding ``but let them not be extravagent``; the one who kills in one of the

three cases above is justified

Regarding ``in killing``; in that he may perhaps kill someone whom it is not

justified to kill. The prudent person thus will do nothing that brings

destruction to him. Or, the `heir` who is not to be extravagent (in

exercising his option for revenge_ ismeant, when he inflicts mutilation

whilekilling, or when he kills anotherthan the one who committed the

homicide.

Regarding ``for surely he is helped by the law``; here the motive for the

prohibition of extravagence is stated in a new sentance. The pronoun `he`

refers either to the one who is killed (unjustly), since he is helped in

this world through retaliation for the death which is established by God for

the sake ofjustice, and he will be helped in the hereafter though the reward

of paradise. Or the pronoun refers to his (wali/heir) since God has helped

the latter in that He granted him the retaliation and commanded others to

assist him. Or the pronoun refers to those whom the wali (heir) kills in

extravagence, because they are helped in thatretaliation in extravagence or

punishment and responsibility for the extravagence are accepted.

No one doubts the atrocious nature of the attack in NY & DC. The

perpretrators, whoever they may be must be caught, and punished. However as

Prophet Muhammad said:

``The strong is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the

strong is the one who controls himself while in anger.``

[Bukhari 8.135]

Prudence needs to be considered in order to ensure that no more `innocent

lives` are taken.

At the same time, it has to be realised that US foreign policy does itself

result in many innocent peoples lives being taken away as collatarel damage

e.g in Iraq where hundreds of thousands of children have died as a result of

US sanctions; or in Palestine; or in ...

What ought to be sought is justice, not a pre-Islamic form of tribal

revenge; that is, your son killed my son, so not only will I kill your son,

but your whole tribe even if you and the rest of the peolpe in your tribe

had nothing to do with it. This was a very common occurance in the pre

Islamic days amongst the Arab tribes.

Allah the Almighty says:

``In the long run evil in the extreme will be the End of those who do

evil...``

[Surah ar Rum (30): 10]

``You will all return to Me and I will tell you the truth of all that you

did``

[Surah al Ankabut (29):

Open Letter to O. B. Laden . I was in bed in my apartment, which by the way is only two blocks from the Pentagon, when it was attacked. I pray that all of your friends and relatives who are in NY and DC are all safe.

For those of you interested here`s my account of the tragedy that happened yesterday.

I had a splitting headache because I couldn`t sleep all night, so I called into work at 9:20 to let them know that I would be in late. I relaxed back into bed but then at 9:38 am my eyes popped wide open...something was terribly wrong...I felt tremors laying in bed...my entire apartment shook...my heart pounding as I got out of bed. Perplexed and disoriented from my headache I opened the blinds to my sliding glass door, the sun shone in and I saw what appeared to be dust particles out in the air. I thought nothing of it really...I just figured it was debris from the construction on the apartment going up next door.

So I reached for the remote control to my TV, when my telephone rang...my mother sounded panicked on the phone...`` * * * * * * *...have you heard what happened? They hit the Pentagon, they hit the Pentagon!...`` She was worried that something may have happened to me, after all I live so close. I reassured her that I was fine...but should really rush to work. Just then I heard sirens...ambulance, fire and police all right outside my apartment.

The sounds all a cacophony of tragedy blending together...my headache only got worse. So...still in shock really, not realizing the magnitude of what

had occurred I got ready to go to work.

I got into my car as I do every morning to leave the garage of my apartment building, and once outside it seemed like I was in a transported to a scene from the movie ``Independence Day``. There were panicked people everywhere...Navy and Army personnel running away from the Pentagon right next to us...crying and walking...hugging each other and in dismay...a women had taken off her Nine West heels and was now walking in her stockings...two lane roads were jam packed with three cars in two lanes...panicked people in cars everywhere...all heading no where...traffic signals weren`t working...horns and sirens going off...complete chaos...complete disorder in once a very quiet and orderly city...cars were wedged everywhere...a stern man in a Lexus was driving on the sidewalk...people all frantically trying to get anywhere but here. I sat in all the pandemonium and chaos and looked up to see the dark clouds of black smoke out of my sunroof...and that`s when it hit home...deep in the pit of my stomach...they hit the Pentagon...they hit this large building with fathers, mothers, aunts and uncles just two blocks from what I once thought was my cozy safe apartment. It was all so unreal...so scary...

My eyes darted right and left, trying to process the chaos...and that`s when I noticed the glares from the sets of eyes fixated on me...``go back to where you came from!!! you *#@ *&

My Last Chappu

#204

TAhmed

``How is Fatimah doing nowadays incidentally? Seems like your other personalities are not giving her a chance.``



Adab Arz Hai Bhaijan--ASAK

When sister Semiprescious #201

has provided adequate response to both of you,

THANK YOU,i am alive & well Alhamdulillah so is Aeisha are busy doing more important family chores instead of repeating unnecessarily .

Living in an Object Oriented World Reply #: 30

rsridhar

Re:Reply #: 23

Fatimah



srdhar

100% agree with you

I think this statement in the report says it all

.... Anecdotal evidence aside, no one can produce any hard data that there is a concerted campaign of conversion....``

:``ANECDOTAL:``

Living in an Object Oriented World Reply #: 24

Gowardhan

Biwi Fatimah



You sound desperate man.Dont you have grown kid & old wife??

Chill. The post is news paper report .It neither reflects my opinion ,nor am i in England.I didnt mean to work you up -sorry

Living in an Object Oriented World

Why the Indians change or revert to rascism with red Necks of England.

Conversion charges divide British Asians



RASHMEE Z AHMED

TIMES NEWS NETWORK



ONDON: The second, almost surreal stage of the campaign to distinguish British Indians from Pakistanis appears to have begun, with a section of second-generation Sikh youths linking up with the far-right British National Party and identifying a common enemy - Britain`s two-million strong Muslim community.

``British Sikhs and Hindus object to their daughters being converted by marriage and we object to Muslims causing trouble here,`` Nick Griffin, the Oxbridge-educated head of the BNP who has a conviction for inciting racial hatred, told this paper.

``Yes, we`ve contacted the BNP, we Indians don`t want to be tarred with the same brush as the Muslims, who are taking our girls,`` a young Sikh accountant who insisted on the anonymous name Mr Singh, told this paper.

Mr Singh, who alleged that ``extremist young Muslims`` were going to extraordinary lengths to form relationships with Sikh and Hindu girls to convert them, said the problem was increasingly urgent in west London, Birmingham and Leicester, three areas where Sikhs and Hindus live in large numbers alongside the Muslim community. Anecdotal evidence aside, no one can produce any hard data that there is a concerted campaign of conversion.

``This is irresponsible and divisive,`` said Ghiasuddin Siddiqui of the Muslim Parliament, ``most religions are missionary, but in 200 years of preaching, did the Christians manage to convert all of India?``

The new alliance with the BNP has caused great unease among Sikh pacifists and Muslim leaders, who say the Asian community would be foolish to trust a party that espouses a return to pristine British culture and believes multi-culturalism to be a failed experiment.

Sociologists say much can be read into the strange coming together of Sikhs and a political party that visibly speaks for white Britain. Britains Sikhs, a small community that is often lumped with the one-million strong Hindus, evidently resents being ``engulfed`` in terms of media imagery and the official branding of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans as ``Asian``.

Indian groups have been pointing out the difference to any one who will listen ever since the summer of riots between British Pakistanis and police in the northern English towns of Bradford, Burnley and Oldham.

Even so, doves and hawks alike say a very real problem exists. Gurunam Singh Sahni, former head of London`s Central Gurdwara, admitted he could instantly think of at least seven recent cases of conversion to Islam by marriage among the Sikh families he knew. ``It`s becoming frequent now, but this is not the answer to it,`` he said.









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Chowk, Jay, a Ditch and I Burqa hides arms, not just the face



M SALEEM PANDIT

TIMES NEWS NETWORK



RINAGAR: Security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir believe that militants want to enforce the burqa in the state as they could use the dress as a camouflage and carry arms under it.

B N Kabu, Deputy Inspector General (operations), BSF told Times News Network that militants wanted to impose the burqa as they could move about freely with weapons hid under the burqa. He added that if the security forces start trying to verify the identity of the wearer of the burqa, allegations of indecent behaviour will be raised. This, said the DIG, would attract international indignation.

When asked whether the BSF proposes to check the forcible imposition of burqa on the Kashmiri women, Kabu said so long as they give it the name of Islamic dress code, the BSF would not intervene to hurt the religious sentiments of the majority community in Jammu and Kashmir. But he said, ``our boys are ready to nab the hoodlums throwing acid or other chemical substance on the unveiled girls in the public.``

K Rajindra, DIG , Kashmir police said police guards have been posted at schools and colleges and at thoroughfares to protect unveiled women.

The DIG said sources within the militant ranks will help the police track down those militants guised as burqa-clad women.

However,a BSF jawan posted at Lal Chowk said he was scared of burqa-clad pedestrians as Fidayeen (suicide sqads) could be behind the veil. The jawans get alert whenever a burqa-clad person walks past a BSF picket in the city, said a BSF officer. The jawans even have a nickname for burqa-clad persons--`Masked Death`.

The security guards of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah have been instructed to keep away burqa-clad persons. Authorities are also thinking about keeping burqa-clad persons away from the Civil Secretariat to avert any Fidayeen attack, sources said.

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Madhuri`s posters burnt by BJP cadre protesting Lajja

Press Trust of India

ANOTHER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEADER PAKISTAN & FOLLOWER INDIA:WHATEVER PAKISTAN MAY DO ,INDIA WILL BE LATE COMMER AS ``ME TOO`` shortly there AFTER,proving imitation is the best form of flattery .May the persistence of Pakistani continue to be proven right by none other than the hegemonous neighbour ---BIG BUT DUMBO

Madhuri`s posters burnt by BJP cadre protesting

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Lajja

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Bhopal, September 3: A group of BJP workers on Monday burnt an effigy of Bollywood film-maker Rajkumar Santoshi and posters of film actress Madhuri Dixit to express their protest against what they described as ``objectionable dialogues`` against Hindu gods and goddesses in Santoshi`s latest movie Lajja.

Police said the BJP workers led by Rameshwar Sharma, leader of the party in the Bhopal municipal corporation, were trying to move towards Raaz Talkies, where Lajja is being screened, when they were stopped in view of prohibitory orders in force because of the monsoon session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly.

According to BJP workers, Madhuri`s posters were burnt because the ``objectionable dialogues`` against Hindu gods and goddesses were uttered by her in the movie. ``Lajja`` is also being screened at the local Sangam cinema hall, but no demonstration was held there.

This is the second time this year that a demonstration against a Hindi film has been staged in the city. On July 19, activists of the Youth Congress had staged a violent demonstration against Hindi blockbuster Gadar.

Chowk, Jay, a Ditch and I

The Real Jehad WOMEN’S GROUP PUSH SPARKS BURQA RUSH



FROM MUKHTAR AHMAD



Srinagar, Aug. 29:

With only two days to go before the Lashkar-e-Jabbar’s burqa deadline expires, a separatist women’s organisation has come out in support of the Islamic dress code.

“I thank all those who initiated the purdah campaign in Kashmir,” Asiya Andrabi, the chief of the only women’s separatist organisation in Kashmir, Dukhtaran-e-Milat, said in a statement in Urdu.

“We should even boycott those families which live an un-Islamic life in Kashmir,” Andrabi added.

However, frontline outfits like the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen had opposed the imposition of the dress code.

But Dukhtaran-e-Milat’s support to the burqa diktat has spread fear among women in Kashmir who had been assured by the stance of the frontline outfits.

“After the Dukhtaran-e-Milat’s support to the veil campaign, we cannot take any chances,” said Amina Khan, a school teacher, while shopping for a veil along with her female colleagues in Srinagar. “The threat now sounds genuine. That’s why I am buying an abiyah (veil).”

There’s a great rush here as women are busy buying burqa. There was also a burqa sale on Monday. “We have been flooded with orders,” said Ghulam Mohammad, a tailor. “We are working overtime to meet the demand for burqas. I am working day and night along with my helpers to beat the deadline.”

Many Muslim women in Srinagar also supported the veil campaign. “A veil is good thing for Muslim women, but acid attacks have no logic. Let them (militants) convey their message to women through religious preachers,” said a veiled Nighat Yasmeen.

“By adopting the Islamic dress code, Kashmiri women have silenced the opposition voices ... (and people) who tried to sabotage the massive dress code campaign in Kashmir,” Andrabi said.

A Pakistani School’s Visit to India

# 725

saminashah

Fatima,re: #710

My research actually focused on immigrant communities in the West. I would be interested in learning how the issues of dual citizenship, transnationalism and postnationalism play out on the subcontinent. So, what is your opinion?

regards

Saminashah,



The last time i checked Canada,U.K. & Canada was W E S T .

Did you read ,what i said or you assumed ?

Pakistan allows western passport holder to have T W O passports.

My question is (only discussion ,i know you are neither Indian nor hindu )if Pakistanis IN u.s.a.,u.k. & Canada can ,why cant INDIAN also???.

If its too difficult ,just say so, dont confuse me & other readers!

Big Boobs #164

freesoul

``Yes, no woman can have sex with a man with a pistol on his head (unless she is interested in other kinky stuff, which I leave to ur imagination).``

And you are testifying to the fact that men can hold pistol to the head ,CAn ??

is this personal testimony ?

A Pakistani School’s Visit to India Reply #: 712

Gowardhan

Fatimah 701

G.D.

To jews & muslims,there religion is OBOVE ANY MONEY.

To most indu Indians only factor that counts from birth to death with btw Marriage in between is ``sab se bara rupayah,bap bara na bhaia``

thats if you get it G.D.

& if you want second BIG things for being Pakistani is U GET FRIDAY OFF instead of sunday .B/C for even indian muslims Friday is not off to pray for which jews have off on Satutrday on there sabbath day in Israel.