The English Effect

It was in one of the short stories back in the O-level's syllabus that a guy tells a girl (or perhaps it was the other way round) that he loves her and the girl replies that if you had said that in Urdu, it would have sound so bazaari (vulgar) ... or something similar to that ... English does have this intellectualizing, legalizing and toning down effect over here. I have seen people happily bearing abuses hurled at them in English but usually they are not so comfortable with Urdu or Punjabi. Similarly when the Pakistani stage dramas were gaining notoriety with their abundant double entendres; English sitcoms were usually let off scot-free with their sexual innuendos. 

Confusion

How effortlessly he plugs in the verbal abuse when he barks at the waiter to bring the naans quickly. Considerable height and more than a few sessions at the bodybuilding club entitles him to such mannerism.

Where you desperately want to punch the hell out of him, only if you had the same height and sessions on your side; you also start to feel better about yourself. At least there are people who more perfectly adorn the definition of a jerk.

What feels worst is that you did not have the courage to stand up for that poor guy whose lips were sealed only because he has a family to feed. 

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

See the pictures here.

Maybe because it is of Pakistan but picture number 8 is fascinating...

"An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods. (© Russell Watkins)"

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Lectures by Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed

Islam

• Temptations of the Youth

• Islam and Secularism

After the Jalsa...

• Criticism washed away
• How Shahbaz Sharif lost his mojo 
•  قریب تر ہے نمود جس کی 
• آغاز تو اچھا ہے انجام خدا جانے
• مشرق سی ابھرتے ہوے سورج کو ذرا دیکھ 
• پانی پت کی تیسری لڑائی 
• ظالمو جلدی کرو 

Article by Orya Maqbool Jan

Here is the link to an interesting article