Posted By:  jersson Posted On:  Feb 8, 2007	No es lo mismo
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Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Nov 24, 2007	Pride and Parochialism; Only in the sub-continent!
I read with interest some of the contributions on this site. Being of Pakistani Muslim background, I can understand some of the resentment I note in the language in a few comments of articles. I have struggled with contradictory emotions myself in the past until a voice from deep inside came up...... [view]

Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Jun 13, 2007	Remembering Partition
Taarik Shab hai Larzat-e-Khaab-e-Sahar GayeeSarpar Hamaaare ek Qayaaamat Guzar GayeeGhar Jal gaya mera, mere Ghar ke Chiraag SeAatish Bajaan Fiza hai Jidharko Nazar GayeeKhanjar ne Mere, Mera Jigar Chaakh Kar DiyaTakleef Chaara Saazi-e-Zakhme-e-Jigar Gayee... [view]

Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Jun 24, 2007	Love Across Border
This article is not meant to change anyone’s thinking or to make people feel and think like me, it is just to share what I went through recently. Not everyone would share such incident of their life neither I would have ever but as ‘he’ says “there is some force”,...... [view]

Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Jul 1, 2007	Who is the enemy?
I am pleased to find this club hidden away in the labyrinths of the internet. I would like to share a translation of a poem Kaun Dushman Hai by Ali Sardar Jafri - someone had sent it to me some time back. Unfortunately, the name of the translator was not sent with the text. I would be grateful...... [view]

Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Aug 27, 2007	Blasts Rock Hyderabad ---- Yet again.
A sad incident claiming the lives of another 45 odd innocents. May their soul rest in peace and may these terrorists have a miserable life before and after death. India was going on nicely apart from a few jitters here and there and it was getting all too quiet for anyone’s satisfaction. I...... [view]

Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Aug 29, 2007	Healing the wounds of Partition
I read this interesting, albeit a little contentious, piece by Ravinder Kaur that examined the impact of partition on settling the communal question. The article states: The sixtieth anniversary of the independence of Pakistan and India on 14-15 August 2007 has prompted official celebration in...... [view]

Posted By:  arsalanj Posted On:  Nov 7, 2007	Short Biography of Baba Bulleh Shah
Baba Bulleh Shah (1680-1758) was the great humanist, philosopher, rebel, internationalist, teacher and Sufi poet of all times. Baba ji was the disciple of Enayat Shah Lahori, who himself was a great Sufi of his time. Baba ji was born in a noble and aristocratic Saye’ad family but, as a...... [view]