Now Showing on a DVD Near You yeah, go ahead, ravage our only source of sasti-entertainment! :@

on a serious note, the idea of simultaneous release might help Hollywood mend some of its wounds, but I don`t think it`s gonna work for Bollywood. Even in Pakistan, you can find smuggled unedited alpha versions of movies months before their actual release date. And these too at a fraction of the cost a `legally relased` DVD would bear. Who`s gonna take the stakes for a progressive cinema, when they get the entertainment it`s meant for anyway?

The \'h\' Index – A Measure of Quality of Scientific Research #5 glad to see another higgs finder from Pakistan. hope you won`t mind dropping me a line at einsqad2@hotmail.com

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Inzamam and Allah friggin hilarious. some `remarks` got me rolling.

Weaving...Sailing - Two poems Exquisite stuff Alberto, the first one in particular. Keep `em coming.
but I`d agree with, both should`ve been posted separately.

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An Alternative Spelling of Eed #89 awwww, looks like I have hurt poor kaka deeply...don`t worry beta, i`d still be gracious enough to own you any day...i could mellow you into a nice kid, trust me on this

Fractals And guess why there are only 5 interacts on this board despite it being on front page for a couple of days already?
that`s easy....Mr Paracha has forgotten the passwords for his a thousand and one other nicks, which he uses solely to respond to / promote his very own articles...
What a pity...my heartiest sympathies are with you NFP!

Fractals I`ll wait until this article gets off FP and is listed under one of the categories....may be that`d help to find out the objective of this piece of gibberish...

An Alternative Spelling of Eed Looks like kaka is hell bent on growing up into the next N F Paratha of Chowk, so no wonder this piece of crap is as lame and pathetic an attempt at humour as most of NFP`s wriings are, perhaps even more.
I disagree, it`s not offensive at all...it`s just utterly dreadful...for no one gives a shit to what a self-aggrandizing lowlife kaka-next-door hallucinates about or what he has to say about Ibrahim (AS) and his followers...I believe even Russel turns in his grave each time someone reads the words `a rogue philosopher`...

Superstitious Me: Pappu decides to marry for Allah Hilarious...and even more `ibraT naak` !!! Great stuff.

Culture Cloning Re: # 167 i don`t think there is a single Pakistani culture either... the foremost defining charactersitic of a culture in the literal sense is perhaps `shared regional bounds` followed by a bunch of other factors...in that sense, each province of Pakistan has it`s own sub-culture. When someone refers to the Pakistani or Indian culture generally, in my opinion, it entails the dominant bits of all the sub-cultures prevailing in the two countries.

Culture Cloning Indian culture...Hindu culture...Pakistani Culture...Islamic culture...
media culture...
would someone draw the lines?
Truth of the matter is, the `culture`, or lack of it thereof, promoted by the Indian media, is not the Indian culture itself in the true sense of the word. so what we `borrow` from the Indian media is not the Indian culture per se, the real Indian culture is actually a part-and-parcel of the Pakistani culture, going by the history.
... and the question remains, does media influence the culture or portray it?

What Drives Men and Women of Indian Subcontinent to Infidelity? Re: # 25 either avoid calling someone a `friend` or learn to keep the secrets.
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What Drives Men and Women of Indian Subcontinent to Infidelity? Hein ji???

buk raha huuN junooN meiN kya kya kuchh
kuchh na samjhay khuda karay koi

aadaab.

Shades of Grey Haven`t been able to go through the whole write up yet, but am still stuck on this particular statement which is constantly bugging me:

[I think the problem arises when people confuse Faiz the poet with Faiz the thinker]

Is this supposed to imply that a poet`s poetry is not a direct artifact of his `thoughts`, or not, at least, inspired by these? Isn`t it naive to distinguish between a poet`s thoughts and his poetry?
If there does lie a difference between the two, he is not a true poet, let alone one of Faiz`s caliber.

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Earthquake in Pakistan Re: # 4 none but the bloody old gujju it is. Claims to have read a thousand and one books in recent years...has learnt, but, not a word.
You don`t even have to get people to stop reading books to destroy culture, these make no difference to such venom-laiden minds.

Autumn Harvesting beautifull! That`s how poetry adds splendor to an everyday experience