importance of being desi - part iii
i cannot understand
indians : their love for checkered shirts, their hairstyle from the 60's
pakistanis : their love for sunglasses, dude you are indoors its 11pm and its been raining all day
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Indians: Sandals, no socks, even when it is freezing out.
A faint odor of Methi, pickles and hair oil.
Constant humming, rather a honey bee effect :)
And here I am talking about the FOBs, the ABCDs are another story.
Pakistanis: Yucky greasy looking long hair on guys.
Soul patches or the few day old stubble look.
One thing in common: They all stare.
how about scratching in public & leather jackets that pakistanis are so fond of... :)
wait - how can you forget the white sneakers indians wont be caught dead without..
Leather jacket? Sun glasses? You just described Bono!!! Thanks for grossing me out first thing in the morning :)
i thought it was the scratching that would gross you out...:) are you saying that leather jackets are more ok than over zealous dextrous hands...
why am i humming "feelings ooooo feelings" in my brain :)
Look, I totally tried to block out the scratching part - I so wanted to amend it to "scratching PRIVATE places in public" but I restrained myself - and then you throw that ugly song at me - thanks a lot:)
Now my lunch is ruined too:)
The male body manipulation, scratching, & adjusting is pretty outrageous.
Hi came across this post of urs while looking for a translation of baba bulleh shah's "wah wah ramz sajan di hor"..am in love with the song ever since i heard abida parveen sing it. can u pls tell me where i can find the poem and the english translation for it. thanks
hi runa, you can find the kafi on http://www.apnaorg.com/poetry/bullah/144.htm but i am unable to see it due to a firewall...so will login from home and give it a try to translate...the first line being an exclamatory wonderment of the unusual exceptional magic of Love (beloved)
hey devaan..i did try out that site..but unfortunately i cant read urdu :((( thanks so much
runa, can you read gurmukhi...well the other script is arabic or as the site says shah-mukhi...
in any case i need to read it first it is a second languague for me too but a lot of words are similar...how was the translation (transliteration) of the first line?
nops....cant read either... :(( i got some bits of the translation here. seems like the poem and the translations are present in the album cover of abida parveen's CD. but yup ur version is certainly exalting :) thanks so much
thanks runa, i listened to this track it is available on www.apnaorg.com under abida-2 but somehow i like the ones in which she is more semi-classical and the content is still sufi...for example..do give this track a try. mera dil ranjhan rawal mangay..
http://www.apnaorg.com/music/abida/index-1.php3
the track is very simple, the first line is simply "my heart only yearns for ranjha my love mycompanion...) i really can't find a word for rawal which is so brilliant of shah hussain another sufi poet to have used that the object of love is more than just that but also someone who would not leave you in the time of need....hence this reference to true love (the Lord above) companion...in any case..
if you are into sufi poetry then you must listen to pathanay khan, the uncrowned king of sufi kafis..you will find a lot of blogs on my site...let me just say that the only music i have cried to in rush hour traffic is pathanay khan (yes the stress of the day was another factor)
my experience is here
http://deevaan.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_deevaan_archive.html
listen to it if you have the time..the tracks can be long but this is pure magic
listen to the best sufi track ever
mera ishq vee toon...this is also covered by abida parveen but pathanay khan's version is something else
and lastly a ray of hope meekaal hasan band the album is sampooran
this is sufi music done in a modern style
let me know what you think of these
i refuse to believe as i read some sites that rabbi is making sufi music popular and that this is something of a recent phenomenon...this is sheer ignorance...maybe only now people are finding out how ignorant..
there has been a sufi tradition in sindh and punjab for the last 300 years and you have today a large following of sufism
hi,i really seems tooo bee your post is soo good.
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