[Reader-list] Ghalib and the damn Muslim problem

[Raheema Begum]

as far as this space is concerned, my lament has always been this :

yeh khaki apni kismat mein na noori hai na naari hai

Raheema.


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM, ambarien qadar <ambarien at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> Ofcourse the 'Half muslim' anecdote is very much true..atleast in the
> world I come from!
> Many of my closest friends would drink wine and would not eat pork....this
> is more to do with cultural influences rather than anything else.
> Frankly, they give a damn to who is saying what to whom or had said what
> to whom or whether they will be less muslims by doing it or will be more if
> they do not, before they raise the toast
> Nevertheless, we are labelled so all the time...It also brings the
> hijab-jeans, combo to my mind amongst other things...
> This surely is an interesting thread. I'm thinking through some it...
> But Ghalib perhaps is not the right reference for this thread.
> I'm already thinking of someone like Iqbal.
> Cheers
> Ambarien
>
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