Aqsa Pervez: The Casualty of Patriarchy
Posted by
jang
Dec 24, 2007 02:09 pm
what does androcitrus mean..is it something about a human neembu?
The Real Issue Facing Pakistan
so army or not, pakistan would always have to face manipulations by the west..the only choice is to be friend or the west (not possible due to its islamic character) or a client...or wait for china to truely start flexing its muscle and then other alternatives open up.
Posted by
jang
Dec 24, 2007 01:59 pm
HP sahib, i thought the great game theories in the past had raised your hackles? offcourse the anglo-saxons wanted to have a "friend" or a guard-dog in our part of the world. iran was that but it turned out to be unmanagable..india was not good due to its chaotic unmanagability, afgans were afgans so pakis were always a good choice. the only choice for pakistan really had been to accept indian hagemony..but unfortunately for pakistan india had been such an economic mess that it was never a real choice.so army or not, pakistan would always have to face manipulations by the west..the only choice is to be friend or the west (not possible due to its islamic character) or a client...or wait for china to truely start flexing its muscle and then other alternatives open up.
The Holiday Season
Posted by
jang
Dec 21, 2007 02:59 pm
yar this is such stereotypical shyte..it preys on paki sterotype of amrican girls liquoring and getting knocked-up. is it any surprise if poor cabbie dads get into murderous rage over their daughters not wearing the hijab?
Feminism Under Veil
Posted by
jang
Dec 17, 2007 03:12 pm
the author has had mental-health and adjustment problems like aneroxia etc and is using hijab as a kind of therapeutic tool. its all good. i hope however that it does not alienate herself from the neighbors and she ends up raising alienated children with adjustment problems.
Where is Ibn-Sina of the 21st Century?
Posted by
jang
Dec 13, 2007 08:11 am
the point is creating an atmosphere for nurturing of ideas into lasting useful shyte is a non-trivial thing..many ideas prolly die a quick death without social nurture, capital infusion etc. just some religion wont do, it can at best be a hinderance. its hard to look for that one line about going to china in middle of all the other copious shyte which you need to worry about when eternal damnation is at stake.
Where is Ibn-Sina of the 21st Century?
...its silly to claim that islami greats stopped happening due to colonialization. we have had at least two fabulously rich islami empires, the mughal and the ottoman (you can add the ispahanis to that and then you get a third) which were without any colonialization. if at all, the islamis were the colonial powers in baghdad and damascus and jerusalem and alaexandria and basra and tunis. we can grant the the mughals were not much good due to the currupt-hindu influence, but the ottomans and ispahanis have no such hinderance. i mean halaku may have borrowed a few books for his campfire, but is that enough? after all these empires were fabulously rich.
Posted by
jang
Dec 13, 2007 08:05 am
IMO great ideas are not that easy to form in general, a lot of stars need to align....its silly to claim that islami greats stopped happening due to colonialization. we have had at least two fabulously rich islami empires, the mughal and the ottoman (you can add the ispahanis to that and then you get a third) which were without any colonialization. if at all, the islamis were the colonial powers in baghdad and damascus and jerusalem and alaexandria and basra and tunis. we can grant the the mughals were not much good due to the currupt-hindu influence, but the ottomans and ispahanis have no such hinderance. i mean halaku may have borrowed a few books for his campfire, but is that enough? after all these empires were fabulously rich.
6th December 1992
Posted by
jang
Dec 10, 2007 11:52 am
salim besides acting bania, you also seem to have churri up your bagal..i said inspite of our blemishes..that hardly means overlooking them. we will take care of the blemishes with our own karma-based schemes..no excuses.
6th December 1992
now, hows the plan for moving gian vapi masjid pathar-by-pathar to jinahpur coming along? i want a status report on my desk on UP first thing in the morning.
Posted by
jang
Dec 9, 2007 04:26 pm
salim bhaijan, india is unique with 15+ % monirity population with a troubled past post 1857. any country with that kinda dynamics would not have it easy, we are proud if what we have inspite of the blemishes inspite of the stupid "secularist" causing us all kinda trouble.now, hows the plan for moving gian vapi masjid pathar-by-pathar to jinahpur coming along? i want a status report on my desk on UP first thing in the morning.
6th December 1992
perfect fodder for BJP to gain so many seats..wagons were circled overnight. ram janambhoomi was a brilliant political excercise of uniting "hindus" politically and destruction of babri mosque was a deliberate act symbolising that the BJP would be an action-taking party and not just rabble-rousing.
they managed to convince the electorate on this single issue, and made history. now offcourse the issue is used-up.
Posted by
jang
Dec 8, 2007 07:26 am
cobra, indian secularist do raise this question, you see, its na reahn bas, na baje bansuri. if ram does not really exist, how the f can we have ram janam bhoomi? by this argument those demanding ram janambhoomi are neatly reduced to ignorant fools.perfect fodder for BJP to gain so many seats..wagons were circled overnight. ram janambhoomi was a brilliant political excercise of uniting "hindus" politically and destruction of babri mosque was a deliberate act symbolising that the BJP would be an action-taking party and not just rabble-rousing.
they managed to convince the electorate on this single issue, and made history. now offcourse the issue is used-up.
Punish Rioters, Not Writers
Posted by
jang
Dec 8, 2007 06:53 am
its good that hindus and sikhs in india dont riot for being called derogatory names like kaffir.
6th December 1992
Salim yar, we indians are generally pretty lovey-dovey with Akbar, he is considered one the major political uniters of india almost unanimously. We dont complain about bihari sons-of-soil like Sher-sha suri and even like bahadursha jafar. mugal-e-ajam was an alltime hit..so your accusation that we consider all the members of the house of timur as ferner (inspite of taking dilli from biharis) looteyras is wrong. we only consdier ghori and abdali as luteyras.
Posted by
jang
Dec 8, 2007 06:28 am
yar DM salim is not asking tough question, the real question is asked by indians themselves, who ask for proof that Ram was born. So Salims question is nothing..real question is 'Prove that the Babri masjid was built on the temple built on the birth-place of Ram".Salim yar, we indians are generally pretty lovey-dovey with Akbar, he is considered one the major political uniters of india almost unanimously. We dont complain about bihari sons-of-soil like Sher-sha suri and even like bahadursha jafar. mugal-e-ajam was an alltime hit..so your accusation that we consider all the members of the house of timur as ferner (inspite of taking dilli from biharis) looteyras is wrong. we only consdier ghori and abdali as luteyras.
6th December 1992
so pick your poison..
Posted by
jang
Dec 6, 2007 03:31 pm
the pendulum will always swing hard one way when you push it too much the other way. e.g. the pendulum of left-wing secular politics brought bush in the white house in a backlash. so its not always prudent to roughshod trample over the sentiment of the "majority"..it may sound like blackmail, but its just a matter of fact.so pick your poison..
6th December 1992
Posted by
jang
Dec 6, 2007 12:47 pm
thank you mohammed bin qasim for reminding us. i scanned indian online newspapers and there was not a single mention of this momentous event. i guess the the mainly hindu media did not consider it important enought. there was news about babasab ambedkars birthday..i guess there was some stuff that happened in the parliament
Free to Dress
Posted by
jang
Dec 6, 2007 05:18 am
dont we have all the sundry politicians wearing khadi, dressed like the generic freedom-fighter?
Search for Origins of Mahayana Buddhism
Posted by
jang
Dec 5, 2007 12:02 pm
tahmed, maybe soon you can write a similar erudite article about arigins of sikhism in lahore and how hindu intolerance drove it out of lahore :)
Search for Origins of Mahayana Buddhism
there are temples built before 10th century with idols..
Posted by
jang
Dec 5, 2007 10:42 am
its good to see pakis looking at budhhism even with the tinted chashma. gandhara school of sculpture had a definate greek influence in form .. curly hair, upright stature. previous indian sculpture seems to consider a symmetric upright statues as aesthetically unappealing and tend to go for the ashta-wakra (8-bends) forms.there are temples built before 10th century with idols..
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