Friday, August 26, 2022
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Quote
بیورلی جینکنز -
(Beverly Jenkins is an Afro-American author from Michigan)Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Reputation
After the pandemic, I think this was the first time I walked into the theater to watch the movie 'Top Gun.' At least say, I thoroughly enjoyed the film because of Tom Cruise, effects, dialogue, and focused storyline (though there was a little Bollywood touch in the storyline). My favorite was the following dialogue.
"Reputation precedes arrival."
"Thank you, Sir."
"It was not meant to be a compliment."
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Monday, August 08, 2022
Married for 7 lives
I have never been a firm believer in reincarnation. I read about it every day. I met people who vouched about it from their anecdotal experience. Following is another experience from my one trip to El Salvador, where I took a cultural trip to see Mayan culture.
I met a couple in our tour group. It was interesting as the woman's name was 'Maya.' They asked me to believe in their tale in the name of their children. Maya described her story in the presence of her husband as below:
"As far as we remember, we first met 3500 years ago. My man was in somewhat 50-60 years of age when he died, and it was a scorching hot day. He was dressed in a classic Mayan tribal outfit. He probably died of heart failure as he was swollen and used to get short of breath easily the day he died. I was in love with him. I died very soon afterward in his grief. I returned to this world 2500 years afterward in old India, where I used to dress in white Saree and wear flowers in my hair. He took another thousand years to get born again. When he asked me if I should have found another soul in between, I replied: my heart didn't accept any other man, but I became friends with another female soul - and became kind of a lesbian until you and I were born together."
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Sunday, August 07, 2022
Friday, August 05, 2022
True Beauty as per Azad
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Feeling
"What are you thinking "? the girl asked.
' Nothing.'" You have to think something."
' I was just feeling.'
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
Monday, August 01, 2022
'is rang ka kapRa'
(overheard at Zainab market, Karachi - while I wait to buy my thing)
"Bhaiyya is rang ka kapRa mil jaaye ga (holding color's paper). Aik shalwar kurta banwana hai"
"Nahi bhai - ye rang to nahi, is se milte julte rang ka kapRa dikha dun?"
"Nahi bhaiyya, bilkul aesa hi rang chahiye"
"Bilkul yahi rang to kabhi nahi dekha. Sirf yahi rang kiun?"
"bachpan se aik hi khawab dekhta hun. Is rang ka shalwar kurta pehne madhosi main madina ki galion main majzoob bane, dholak ki thaap pe, nachta phir raha hun. Bhai Madine jana hai. Kisi aur dukan se mil jaaye ga?'
"nahi bhaiyya ye rang hume nahi maalum - ajeeb hi shade hai"
(man walks away)
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Sachhe log
فیض احمد فیض طالب علم تھے اور کالج میں اپنے ساتھیوں کے ساتھ تاش کھیل رہے تھے کہ اچانک ان کے استاد صوفی غلام مصطفی تبسم پہنچ گئے۔ لڑکوں کے ہاتھ میں تاش کے پتے دیکھ کر خوب بپھرے، خوب گرجے کہ تم لوگ نالائق ہو، لچے ہو لفنگے ہو اور کالج میں تاش کھیلتے ہو وغیرہ وغیرہ۔ جب شاگردوں کا منہ فق ہو گیا ، ہونٹ خشک ہو گئے اور سر ندامت کے مارے جھک گئے تو صوفی صاحب خود بھی بیٹھ گئے اور بولے "اچھا ہمارے پتے بھی بانٹو"۔ فیض صاحب نے صوفی صاحب کی موجودگی میں مجھے بتایا کہ "ہم نے سارے شرعی عیب صوفی صاحب سے سیکھے ہیں۔"
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Monday, July 25, 2022
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Aik Joota
Friday, July 22, 2022
A Nizar Qabbani poem
روشنی لالٹین سے مقدّم ہے
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Rizq
"Ye gulehri (squirrel) bhi ajeeb janwar hai. Shahar main bhi utna hi khush rehta hai jitna jungle main"
"Is liye ke woh sirf apne rizq pe dhiyaan deta hai. Insaan ki saari muskilain tab shuru hui jab usne dusre insaan ke rizq pe zarb lagana shuru ki."







