open attack
Why have we made so many harmless things ‘taboo’ in our society. I agree that their excessive use/abuse would make people suffer but that does not mean that we should not even come in contact with them. Take charas for instance. We’ve portrayed some harmless pleasure-providing herbs as such a huge evil that parents faint when they hear that their kids have been doing it. I mean come on people, Question it! Investigate it! try it first and then ban it!
2 comments November 4, 2006
tham gaya hey pal shayad!
One of those few days when time seems like a commodity. Days and nights are passing slowly without a routine. Yesterday, for example, 12 hours were spend to watch the all the episodes of ROME (an HBO series) in a go.
I would, however, highly recommend watching Rome. Its a class
Add comment October 2, 2006
A Social History
A Social History
Human beings have not always been the way we see them today, in 2419. As funny as it may may sounds, they had no concept of individualism at all until the
twenty third century. Infact, just a few hundred years ago, the members of opposite sex used to commit to each other to spend their whole lives together.
Besides that, they used to live in groups of millions and called themselves a ’society’ based on elements like religion (a primitive way to get to God) , geaography
(an imaginery line dividing land) , color (i.e. the variations of brown) and some other elements that are non-existent in today’s world.
These societies were social units that used to bond people together, however, they were pronounced illegal by the government of the world in 2276
A.D. It is hard to believe, but the recent research of the ‘emotional age’ (1900 AD – 2250 AD) provides sufficient evidence of the fact that people in that age
actually used to believe in each other rather then adhere to the natural phenomenon of individualism. Recently discovered pieces of texts from that age mention
a strong emotion called ‘guilt’ that dominated the lives of the people. Literary researchers have reconstructed the definition of ‘Guilt’ as an emotion experienced
by somebody who gives an equal or greater importance to anybody other then himself, thus violating the basic human principle of individuality. Another very
amusing fact regarding the dominating emotions of that age is that anybody who worried more about himself then others, was criticised and admonished. In
today’s world, this kind of criticism would ofcourse be termed ‘irrational’. People of that age used terms like ’selfish’ and ’selfishness’ abundantly, which shows
their lack of understanding of the human behavior. Other such terms and emotions, that are completely obsolete now, include ‘responsibilty’ , ‘promise’ ,
‘devotion’ and many others.
However, the most interesting phenomenon of the emotional age, recently discovered by the researchers is called ‘love’. Love, as interpreted by the
researchers, was feigning care for somebody else, in order to acquire the much desired personal satisfaction. A mother would care for her child in order to get
the satisfaction of mind and self-pride. People used to love each other in pairs as well as in groups. The pairs in love , would comitt to each other to spend their
whole lives together, hence depriving each other of an emotional engagement with any other person . Oxymorons like ‘unconditional love’ were commonly used
by the people who clearly lacked an understanding of human psychology. A number of people also used this emotion to engage in fornication, which interestingly
enough, was purposely kept hidden from the younglings for unknown reasons. Given that it is a basic human need, hiding fornication from kids would be exactly
like hiding food, air or water from them.
I want to write more but ahh….my mind does not.
1 comment September 21, 2006
now thats where i wanna go!
Therma Spa in Switzerland.
Relaxing?? You bet!!
Add comment September 9, 2006
a treat for your ‘urdu’ ears!
if you are into urdu prose and poetry but would rather listen then read the stuff, here are a few excellent resources:
cheers!
1 comment July 29, 2006
No No
mood: tere ishq main from supari
I am surprised to see that a large number of people are actually supporting Israel. Not that I like the muslim fundies like hezbollah but killing civilians is devastating. Somebody should make a listing of all the known mass killings like the holocaust, rwanda genocide, helagu khan’s massacre e.t.c.; which reminds me of that book I saw about the mass killings in cuba around 100 years ago. Its called ‘The Ghost of Col. Leopold’. This incident had gone unnoticed for a long time.
Also worth noting is the listing of historical mass killings in the city of Delhi. There have been several killings of more then tens of thousands of people at a time. It is a nice thesis for a research paper, which reminds of the south asian graduate studies conference that happens every year in chicago, those guys present some really interesting papers. This is such a random post.
6 comments July 21, 2006
Nopes! We still use horses!
It is the second time in the past year that the following conversation has occured:
Somebody: So where are you from?
Me: I am from Pakistan.
Somebody: Oh..nice.
after a pause,
Do you have cars there?
Are you kidding me? No! We still use horses. I rode here from Pakistan 
1 comment July 13, 2006
Mother Teresa
All our lives we’ve heard everyone extolling Mother Teresa and appreciating all that she has done for the mankind. And now they are coming up with all this jargon about how cruel, neglected, inhumane and degrading the treatment of people wer ein her missionary centers.
This article says all this and much more about a lady whom we have always admired as a saint and a protector.
I still don’t know if I believe this article, may be not, may be this is just a propoganda.
Truth is so blurry at times.
3 comments July 12, 2006
