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Views of an Indian in Pakistan
Posted by sohabd Aug 24, 2005 04:41 am
After reading this article, i can feel a certain opening between the two nations and a vast area of acceptance and re-thinking about the concepts, foreign policies, political and national history.. because there are several points in this article the writer was carried away a bit due to emotional attatchments with his own country, policies and point of view.

The point of view.

This is where the difference is. The article shows us more of boose, availability of boose and a few other aspects which have rather shown a sad part of things from the eye of a visitor.

However, the writer might had that kind of opportunities during his visits. That is also very much possible.

But over all, apart from certain remarks which might have, and perhaps have offended readers here (as you can see the deleted interacts as per the policies of Chowk) I have one single request:

If you go through this article and think in terms of using a more friendlier or rather say politely handled version of all these facts mentioned here... things wont be the same!

My Little Bit of Hindu
Posted by sohabd May 2, 2005 02:24 am
THE question is term ``hindu`` itself. Far way back in the history of the subcontinent one of the famous names of the Rive Sindh was `Hind` and the locals living along the banks of the river were called ``Hindus``. when greek translated Hind river into Indus the people of subcontinent were called Hindus. This process also had names like Sindhu in it. So the history named the people living in this area as Hindus. It was never the name of a religion in the Greek times or afterwards. Perhaps it can help a bit with your confusion. Personally speaking being a Muslim has nothing to do with geographical identities. We know the Indus river for centuries now. Wonder what can be the next name of this river , and what can be the next name of us, living along the banks!!!!

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