[Reader-list] barefoot in the bazaar

[Lehar ..]

the markets and civilians of baghdad..
babylon..kashmir..were bombed last 
week. the oldest markets in human history. this 50
year old classic poem is 
to them..
--


Shackles on your feet
Translated from the Urdu of Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Poorvi
Vora
The Urdu version was written in Lahore Jail on 11
February, 1959.
To Hariharan, Zakir Hussain and Ismail Merchant, for a
wonderful rendering 
and picturization of this in the film “Muhafiz”

Aaj bazzar mein Pabajolaan chalo..

Wet eyes and a crazed will are not enough;
Nor are accusations of a furtive love;
Stride in the bazaar today, shackles on your feet.
Stride with arms spread open and in wild abandon;
Stride with dust-covered hair and blood-stained shirt;
Stride, all the beloved city watches the road.
The official and the commoner;
Sad mornings and barren days;
Arrows of slander and stones of insult.
Who but we can be their companion?
Who in the beloved town remains free of guilt?
Who remains worthy of the killer's hand?
Broken-hearted ones, prepare to leave;
Let us stride to meet our death today.

( Source: home.attbi.com/~poorvi/bazaar.html )

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Religions are all limited because they concentrate on
only one aspect of the 
Truth. That's why they are always fighting amongst
each other. There is no 
end to the Truth, so you cannot confine it to one
scripture. When asked what 
religion I follow, 'I don't believe in
sampradaya-sect. I believe in 
Sampradaha- incineration.' Burn down everything which
gets in way of the 
Truth.
- Aghori Vimalananda; At the Left Hand of God

Organised religion is the prop of a man who has not
found his Self/ God 
within.
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh







>From: Yousuf <ysaeed7 at yahoo.com>
>To: "Vagish K. Jha" <vagishkj at hotmail.com>,  rana
arshed hafiz 
><ranaarshedhafiz at hotmail.com>,  Lehar sethi zaidi
<leharz at hotmail.com>, 
>sanjhi_virasat at yahoogroups.com
>CC: peace_initiative at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Guess who
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:02:09 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>1. Which is the only country in the world to have
>dropped bombs on over twenty different countries
since
>1945?
>
>2. Which is the only country to have used nuclear
>weapons?
>
>3. Which country was responsible for a car bomb which
>killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched
>assassination attempt, making it the most lethal
>terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history?
>
>4. Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986
>was described by the UN Legal Committee as a "classic
>case" of terrorism?
>
>5. Which country rejected the order of the
>International Court of Justice (ICJ) to terminate its
>"unlawful use of force" against Nicaragua in
>1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council
resolution
>calling on all states to observe international law?
>
>6. Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth
>commission of providing "direct and indirect support"
>for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan Indians in
>Guatemala during the 1980s?
>
>7. Which country unilaterally withdrew from the
>Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001?
>
>8. Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a
>verification process for the Biological Weapons
>Convention and brought an international
>conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?
>
>9. Which country prevented the United Nations from
>curbing the gun trade at a small arms conference in
>July 2001?
>
>10. Aside from Somalia, which is the only other
>country in the world to have refused to ratify the UN
>Convention on the Rights of the Child?
>
>11. Which is the only Western country which allows
the
>death penalty to be applied to children?
>
>12. Which is the only G7 country to have refused to
>sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of
>land mines?
>
>13. Which is the only G7 country to have voted
against
>the creation of the International Criminal Court
(ICC)
>in 1998?
>
>14. Which was the only other country to join with
>Israel in opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution
>condemning international terrorism?
>
>15. Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to
>the United Nations yet reserves its right to veto
>United Nations resolutions?
>
>Send your answers to president at whitehouse.gov. If
your
>answers to all the questions are correct, you could
>win an all expense paid trip to Baghdad on a fancy
new
>aircraft called Cruise.


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