Hasba Bill 2005 - An Analysis Ranjit,
That`s a lot of hate, you know...
I`m far too young to know what thing were like in India before the partition, but I have a feeling that perhaps Pakistan was a mistake.
However, when I see such active hatred, I kinda don`t want anything to do with India.
That said, some of my best friedns are Indian, and I`m glad they can quit dwelling on the psat. I`m sure tht you have good reasons for disliking me, but I`d like it if you could forget them.
Hamzah

Fleshened Bones Because she can.
Isn`t that great?

Fleshened Bones I think that it is in the divorce of the female from the mother/daughter/sister role that women (and by admittedly questionable extension, men) have truly been liberated. Hate to use pop symblosim here, but there`s a dialogue in Fight Club that goes something like, ``In losing everything, have we truly become something.`` When a woman`s nothing but, is when we`ve reached a point where she might mould herself into what she chooses, a point where respect is a consequence of HER, and not of her participation in established socio-communal machinery.
Stipped of its thin veneer, in this motehr/beti/etsetrca schema, respect comesnot from being human - being a woman, a bitch, but from being a maan/beti/whatnot. Lets respect a woman for being a woman, not for being a mother/daughter/sister. Let`s not let being a whore confer any disrespect on a woman. And let`s not letbeing a motehr confer any respect on her.
In any case, this poem just incredible...

Fleshened Bones Wow... My first time at chowk...
What a wonderful piece of art... so raw and powerful. I`m blown away.