Anarkali xcellent Asif naqshbandi...this was sort of different than some of your last stuff I have read on this site. very detailed but remaining simple.

Acidity - Novellete Part III (final) Ok gosh finally read this...NFP don`t know if you reading this now but this was like scary ride across madness which we call reality...I wouldve also liked to read the piece you wrote before you performed cutup method.

The Instinct to Upgrade Harish you have turn out to be great literary ambassador of india on chowk and if only our real ambassadors in both India and pakistan could be this balanced...this was yet another great read...looking for more.

Cold Flesh Thanda gosht is my favourite Manto story and it was nice reading translation, but whole idea that it ios revenge from muslim preception is very overkill. just about reality of partition which was tragic on both sides.

Union Strike One No I do not think so, today PTCL ppl said they will not destroy communications but strike will go on however there was no news of stoppage of privatization.

The Aftergod Sir if it matter of deffinations from dictionary I respond by defination of secularism taken from christian dictionary.......

``Secularism is that which seeks the development of the physical, moral, and intellectual nature of man to the highest possible point, as the immediate duty of life — which inculcates the practical sufficiency of natural morality apart from Atheism, Theism or the Bible``

So my point onl;y was that secularism is different from atheism thats all.

According to same dictionary secularism is....
The improvement of this life by material means.
That science is the available Providence of man.
That it is good to do good. ``Whether there be other good or not, the good of the present life is good, and it is good to seek that good`` (English Secularism, 35).

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13676a.htm

Mukhtaran Mai vs. the Rest of Pakistan You said it navedhaqi, it is foolish from bbegining for us to even think that mai will ever get any justice and that Mushy`s enlightened moderation crap actually has something to do with cases like these.

The Aftergod But why is it assumed that secularism means godlessness? It a habit of our mollaas that they try to confuse people between atheism and secularism.

Cardamom Cloud over Coffee welcome harish, like I said will be waiting for that book, its been great reading all your series.

Immigrant I have been to US once in some nine years ago and I dindt feel veryn homesick but when I came back nither did I wanted to go back the way you do however somehow I do relate to your emotion in this regard

The Aftergod Whats the big deal here, is he the only one writing or preaching a godless earth? And this a piece of satrire not shakespeare and it is a dam good satire very close to what goes on in name of religion in pakistan.

Cardamom Cloud over Coffee harish saheb,
any plans for a book in the future? All these must be turned into one, I would certainly love it. So?

The Aftergod Alright here now come the self claimed keepers of the faith and god`s soldiers with their typical narrow minded crys of blasphemy, naqsh saab I have very high respect for you so please do not destroy my respecting image of you by making noises the kind we in Pakistan are sick of hearing from so many myopic mulaas. If you read carefully it is clear that the story is suggesting the end of god Satan and religion as we know it and doing so for what god originally stood for.

The Sugar Coated Shaft Excellent post Mukhlis... am in total agreemant with you

The Aftergod Brilliant absolutely. This just has to be the very best way and in a way darkest way you have yet again pleaded for a ``godless/religionless world`` and I loved it when you suggest to do so more for the sake of God than humans. Great piece of writing, sir like a twisted sci-fiction opera....

Godhra Tak: A note from the Filmmaker I have heard so much about the movire but blasted new copyright rules has made us pakis wait for so long for new DVDs...