Superstitious Me: Pappu decides to marry for Allah #6 - [Chowk staff: I suggest you keep this article permanently etched on the front page of this site.]

atif, or perhaps Trojan company should use this article in their marketing campaign geared towards single men looking to get married. maybe put a printed copy of this article in each pack? :)

Boxed-Up Memories Faiza, this was wayyyyyy too depressing for me. You indeed have a way with words. Now for a change, please write something as funny as depressing this essay was :)

Diabetes: Care and Cure urstruly sahib - you wrote ``The symptoms did not improve and we took her to a Hakim who recommended apple jam (saib a murabba). The apple therapy almost send her into a seizure.``

but the author writes ``eating sweets or wrong kind of food does not cause diabetes;``

I am not able to reconcile the two statements. Sp perhaps eating sweets does not cause diabetes. But once diabetes has occured, eating sweets may worsen it?

scar[let] sidra - although i liked the start of the poem, but somewhere in the middle i lost the trail of your thoughts. good effort though. thanks.

Seventy Days in Karachi and a D+ in spelling and grammar ;)

The Last Leaf Very flowing style, and very moving. I hope your father sees this poem too, and smiles. Very well done.

Although my poetry credentials are shaky at best, I was wondering perhaps in the verse ``That last leaf....Is now one with the sky`` could have been more pointed and natural if you could have used ``earth`` or ``dust`` instead of ``sky``. The leaves fall to earth and become one with it, just like the human body.

Great job!!!

Phoenix, Unqua, and Huma. mariam - seeing my name in the title, i had to read it. with phoenix, huma, unqua and your last name, nightingale, in this poem, we have a bird party here :)

beautiful and deep poem! thanks.

Half a Confession IV (final) this was a really well written and absorbing read.

aside from the meanings, it was the free flowing style of the author that did great justice with this piece.

Half a Confession-I temporal - this is awesome piece of writing. look forward to doosra qadam

The Idea of Chowk i am disappointed, dejected, discouraged, and depressed that chowk staff deems my valuble interacts to nothing more than a score of 1. i demand re-rating. i also demand to know the identity of those who rated me. some heads need to roll here.

The Idea of Chowk this is a test. nothing but a test. so help me god.

(dear god, let my rating be at least 3)

Secret Passages Urstruly sahib - I liked it. Your commentary spread throughout was nice and interesting and sensitive.

At the risk of being disrespectful, let me ask you a direct question. This is how you ended your piece:

``She was none other but the sunflower girl. There was anguish on her face but her eyes - her eyes were shinning with the confidence of that queen, who happens to know a secret passage out of her besieged castle. ``

I may have my own interpretations on `what happened next`. Could you tell me what do you have in your mind about `next`. I mean, so she had escaped from the mob ``through her secret passage``. And now that she is face to face with Zamir, is she going to look for another secret passage to escape again?

Thanks

Socio-political History of Modern Pop Music in Pakistan Paracha sahib - interesting (and long) read. the accuracy of some of the dates is questionable. The zia referendum was in 1984 and not in 1982.

Still in Love shehla - both poems were simple yet evocative. beautiful!

Destination Unknown I knew Tauheed Ahamd sounded familiar. NOW i know its tahmed32!

very nicely written. however, i shudder at the the age old truth of things going through a cyclic motion. would a time come when we go back on all fours?

and i read in perhaps stephen hawking`s book that the universe is still in its `expansion phase` due to the big bang explosion. what will happen when this expansion stops, and the universe begins to contract? would the direction of time and other dimensions be reversed?

i know i know. i shouldn`t lose sleep over it since its a few billions years away :)

or is it?

Three Tales Of Sufi Wisdom can someone please explain to me the moral of the second story?

thanks!