SIMPLY FANTASTIC, MAGNIFICENT AND BEAUTIFUL
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Fabulous video of our beautiful Earth and its inhabitants!
Absolutely magnificent -- Music, Views of Mountains, Moments shared with animals....Fabulous video of our beautiful Earth and its inhabitants!
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Sunday, 17 April 2016
Our national dress is the shalwar kameez, not the niqab - Norman Ansari.
Our national dress is the shalwar kameez, not the niqab - Norman Ansari .
Through fear of the sword or through promise of eternal torment they spread their regressive ways. Over time we found another reason to abhor each other, to feel divided, to openly judge our own. The foreign culture we adopted didn’t play well with our own, for it insisted in its dark perfection while clashing with our own light.Whenever I travel from Pakistan I feel a melancholy that slowly hums in my heart overseas until it reaches full tempo when I return home. Other countries hold dear their customs and honour the old roots from which they rose with tolerance and diversity. Pakistan, on the other hand, has turned into a claustrophobic cultural mute.If culture is food for the soul then we are going mad with starvation. Tragically, we are unable to realise this in our fractured state of mind. For so long we have boiled our meat without salt, pepper, or spice, that we now believe this is the way it is meant to be.Imagine a Pakistan where you regularly socialise with Christian, Hindu, and Sikh Pakistanis, absorbing the aspects of their traditions that make them unique from you.Imagine a Pakistan where you are able to attend an event of a culture different from your own, but completely Pakistani nonetheless.Imagine a Pakistan where heritage sites are preserved with reverence rather than treated as offensive by the intolerant. Imagine a Pakistan where our language, clothing, and music remain unmolested by the Wahhabi sense of conformity.As a child when I visited Karachi I recall the streets and taxis were full of melody; the latest Pakistani pop songs would blare at every corner. Today, the only tones that feature on the same roads are the sounds of vehicles and angry pedestrians. Full niqabs have replaced beautiful Pakistani dresses, long beards have taken the place of fashionably diverse faces, naats (praise of the Prophet (pbuh)) have taken over from musical numbers. Tellingly, a musician who once enriched our lives has transformed into a hard-line preacher in perhaps the biggest indication of our metamorphosis.Recently, I came across a meme that compared the full niqab with local cultural dresses, and it reminded me of our unfortunate transformation. Inspired by this meme, I’d like to take you through a pictorial guide across the world.1.This is a traditional Pakistani dress Not this!2. These are Bangladeshi dresses: Not these!3. These are Afghani dresses: Not this!6. These are Iranian dresses: Not these!7. This is a Malaysian dress: Not this!8. This is an Indonesian dress: Not this!9. This is an Iraqi dress: Not this!10. This is a Syrian dress: Not this!11. This is a Moroccan dress: Not this!12. This is a Tunisian dress: Not this!On one end we have colourful examples of cultural diversity, and on the other we have a misogynistic garb that seeks to paint women of the entire planet in a single colour. What does the world need more?
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
COMMENTS ON P.M. MODI BY WELL KNOWN JOURNALIST
COMMENTS ON P.M. MODI BY WELL KNOWN JOURNALIST
For a year or so we may witness more of Dadris, more of Kaniyahas, more of Owaisi style shouting but finally if the Society keeps its cool, acts maturely and continues to perform we will sail through and the old forces will die a natural death.
LET ME ADD to this every day the new stir media throws in your face is all doctored by forces who wish to topple Modi Govt as Modi has uprooted them and they are like fish out of the water. The time has come to continue to support the man and keep your faith intact and we will see new India for sure bigger, better, stronger, corruption free , peaceful prosperous then ever before with people having better quality of life.
Let
us not undermine the capabilities of this termite ridden old Banyan
tree which will still try its best to stop any one growing to the extent
that it may even turn the soil upside down before falling down.For a year or so we may witness more of Dadris, more of Kaniyahas, more of Owaisi style shouting but finally if the Society keeps its cool, acts maturely and continues to perform we will sail through and the old forces will die a natural death.
LET ME ADD to this every day the new stir media throws in your face is all doctored by forces who wish to topple Modi Govt as Modi has uprooted them and they are like fish out of the water. The time has come to continue to support the man and keep your faith intact and we will see new India for sure bigger, better, stronger, corruption free , peaceful prosperous then ever before with people having better quality of life.
- Mark Tully.
Thursday, 7 April 2016
A Monkey Adopts A Puppy....
A Monkey Adopts a Puppy, Defends it From Stray Dogs, and Lets it Eat First
By DainiusEarlier this month, a rhesus macaque monkey adopted a puppy in Rode, India. After watching the monkey defend the little dog from strays, the locals were so impressed that they set out food for the two unusual companions. To everyone’s surprise, the monkey was so compassionate that it even let the dog eat first!“People who have seen them spoke of their strong mutual affection and described their bond as the most caring thing in the world — to take care of a puppy in danger and protect him like a parent,” reports Zee News. “Their undying affection gives us a valuable lesson about relationships.”This puppy was rescued by a monkey
Image credits: dinamalar.comIt defended it from stray dogs
Image credits: dinamalar.comIt even fed the puppy, allowing it to eat first!
Image credits: dinamalar.comThe two became inseparable
Image credits: dinamalar.comThe monkey mom took care of the puppy as if it were her own
Image credits: dinamalar.comImage credits: dinamalar.comImage credits: dinamalar.comThe locals were so impressed, that they started leaving food out for them
Image credits: Parithitamil“Their undying affection gives us a valuable lesson about relationships”
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
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