Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Haathi--The Elephant--page 206
once an elephant from india was taken to another country where nobody ever before had seen one, arriving at night it was kept in a dark room, people thronged to see it, not visibile in the pitch dark fumbling diffrent and various parts of the elephant standing there , each one made an independent mental image of it from others,
moral of the story is --realisation and comprehension may not come easily to one
moral of the story is --realisation and comprehension may not come easily to one
Mujasmah--M-A-rahat
farhanah rings up her husband , every time he was late by elevenish she would frequently call him to remind hime it was too late to be still in office, their relatives had left an hour ago , farhad tells her he won"t be back that night , for he must complete the legalities of one death penalty for the next day after which he would be able to return not before it
Junoon from previous--
Trading conscience with lover"s passions
Devoid is life spent in sorrow
Praying for you in paradise of dreams
Hopes of no passions--a life of no stains
Friends if you ask me of my passions
I am drowned in complete blissful spring
passions of fire burnt down all
Yet the beloved was not pacified
Passions of the crazed
faithfulness of life long lovers
Town of romancers
Is full of desires
About passions and desires
Ask not the self but the heart
Ask farhad, bismil and the moth
Sparks of ideas are lighted
just by them passioners
Heart broke--lest veil be torn
Passions persistently toy with me
Junoon --from previous--
Destinations hid themselves first from me
Then in passion I surpassed them all
Shahin in town of fragrance
Knows just of his passions
Bestowed of passion-life granted is full
Life of soft tenderness is not or is it dull
In passion lost my love"s companionship
Deserted I cover my face
Never denied passions of love
To tell the truth--no reason to explain
Passion in love my dear--what"s called
Drink of unconcernedness was forced down me
In passion some get brainless
The lover stays not thus alone
Stop questioning me of my passions and loves
Of every time i fell in love
Dust smearing my passions
Take off me to great flights
Then in passion I surpassed them all
Shahin in town of fragrance
Knows just of his passions
Bestowed of passion-life granted is full
Life of soft tenderness is not or is it dull
In passion lost my love"s companionship
Deserted I cover my face
Never denied passions of love
To tell the truth--no reason to explain
Passion in love my dear--what"s called
Drink of unconcernedness was forced down me
In passion some get brainless
The lover stays not thus alone
Stop questioning me of my passions and loves
Of every time i fell in love
Dust smearing my passions
Take off me to great flights
Junoon---- the passion
My passions covered all destinations
Mind boggling has been my whole life
Helpless in love-I am undesired
Let heavens beam up my passions
Traces of passion in love are seen
Some what people make the lovers crazy
For a betrayal-faithfulness how long
Forget the one who "s forgotten you
Do smile again for the sake of love
Dignity of my passion depends on you
Shakil ask someone If its not passion
I belong to the one who"s not mine
Passion luring made me homeless
All my life dust of native land kept calling me back
Listen you who shatter their glass homes
Its not my passion in every destruction
Passion goes a long way beyond love
Little love also turns one most secretive in love
Monday, August 29, 2011
Eid Ka Chand--Page 259
All those gone away
Leaving us alone
To live in our hearts
Remembered on every celebration
Moon on eid appeared troubled
Pricking in eyes hurting
Glistening eyes missing the loved
Sowing pain in minds
Down went the Eid moon
Leaving us alone
To live in our hearts
Remembered on every celebration
Moon on eid appeared troubled
Pricking in eyes hurting
Glistening eyes missing the loved
Sowing pain in minds
Down went the Eid moon
Zamin Kha Gayi--shabanah romani
I fear soundlessness of houses
Trees chirping of settling birds
Lifelong ties stay unbroken
Rythm of heart inseparable for years
The fatherly sky falls crushing his own
Consumes mother earth progeny its own
Weighing shadows of sins on earth
Without reason are not tremors on earth
Trees chirping of settling birds
Lifelong ties stay unbroken
Rythm of heart inseparable for years
The fatherly sky falls crushing his own
Consumes mother earth progeny its own
Weighing shadows of sins on earth
Without reason are not tremors on earth
from page 186--malik safder hayat
when the writer narrator was posted in jhang faisabad , he had instructed his staff to inform him about any urgent and immediate happenings in his area, the knock early morning on the door was heard persistently, he crossed the yard in the drizzle and opened it to find a constable demanding his attention who told him one of the dead man"s grave had been tempered with at night, and the sons were waiting for him to investigate
Ansuon Ki Pukar--Hamirah Rahat--page 269
Wait -a moment
Slow down your spades
Sleeps here my princess
With her there
A small infant
Stars of my eyes
In the morning
I kissed them both
Come back home
To find gifts awaiting you
But they returned not
Draped in religious tags
Lay they here
Homeless torn
No prince-no princess any more
Sheets of tears wrap me
I call my children
From the debris around
Echoes
Wait - a moment
Slow down your spades
Sunday, August 28, 2011
The Wax Lights
the opening in the wall was made of red stone, it was an old structure , dusty , cobwebs stuck all over , they had to cover their faces to avoid breathing them in, in the hall the old woman's entire family was present , including their heavy weith wrestler type maid whose bangles and jewelley pieces , anklets shone brilliantly in the wax lights illuminated in the hall, the odd thing about them all was their foreheads were coloured crimson red adding a air of awe to the whole set up
Lalkar--tahir javed mughal
aftab the pathan meets them in their basement, in whispers he tells them the old woman was creating scenes, seemingly very aggressively she was instigating others, they climb up the narrow staircase adjoining to the hall where the ceremony was taking place, the gathering appeared very serious, the air filled with a strange heaviness, weighing down their hearts
Saturday, August 27, 2011
The Living Dead
rashid-al-zaman was not in his room, shahab-al-din keeps one of the skeletons for practicals of MBBS second year , the other in the sack he decides to give it to his equally poor friend, the moment he touches the bones in the sack felt warm alive and throbbing, the eyes in the face of the scalp moved menacingly, it spoke it was a living dead come back to avenge
The Sack
shahab-al-din attends musical recital show till elevenish then leaves for the cottage , there were many mass graves, the smallest one he thought would be easiest to dig, within two hours he pulls out two hardy perfect skeletons, perfect like books with all pages intact are useable, one for his class mate one for himself, he hides them in the field , covering them with plants, next morning he leaves with the sack containing the two skeletons for his hostel
Khabish Dhanchah--M. Alyas
the orient, india, bengal, assam have been notorious for practising black magic that have no antidote, shahab al-din a poor educated young man studying medicine unable to afford a skeleton decides to dig out from the compound of an old british police officer "s cottage a skeleton from a mass grave of communal rioters, he takes his friend with him to assist him
The narrator
so andrews calls a private detective wali to help him who is the narrator who definitely likes the old honest man
The Second Letter
the second one was rather a threat asking him to keep the brown packet the writer of the letter had dropped near the drive in cinema a secret till his next instruction when he would tell him when where and how to deliver it to him
from previous--
andrews gets many messages and letters describing the packet, all of them were cheats and hoaxes, the two letters attracted his attention were from the attorney asking him to deposit the packet in the government run treasury whose job it was to find the real owner or let him keep it
Bhoorah Lifafah
andrews was and old honest man who finds on the right footpath of a drive in cinema a brown envelop containing more than ten thousand dollars, too honest to use it, or to let his wife spend it on herself he puts in a newspaper advertisement giving a contact number , if satisfied he would give the packet to the right owner
Thursday, August 25, 2011
From previous--
He took leave from his office , at home he listened to the answering machine and the callers registering their messages, one woman client wanted his immediate attention, she was a car dealer whose most expensive car from the show room was driven away without paying its last two instalments , jack's job was to get it back, he was paid handsome advance
In The Casino
usually jack stayed unidentified with his hidden camera, but for once he wanted to be recognised, he spent an entire day in a hotel , when it was time to close down he started gambling in the basement casino , picking up a fight with his opponent,
Alahkaar
jack maurin was a black mailer, his job was taking dirty pictures of couples in compromising positions , he wanted to get rid of his wife, before he could implement his plans she left him for good
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Anila
adil hears someone calling his name, in three years he had forgotten the familiarity of voices in the village, it took him some time to recognise anila his fiance , the dusty road was lined up on either side with tall trees beyond which spread out were fields , standing crops swayed in the wind , it instead of surprising him brought a sense of terrible fear in this wintery night
Badrooh Ka Inteqam--safder shahin
adil returning after three years from the city , walks through the woods at night towards his home in the village feels someone following him, the footsteps were quite audibly close, turning around he could see nothing , except pitch dark , visibility was poor
The Hired Help
She can"t help listen to them talking , one was hiring the other to kill his wife a nurse by profession, her details, her pictures were exchanged, she was to be found by the husband later not moving and to call the police , the man gave the hired help a briefcase full of cash
The Escape
she finds nothing except some cigars, she on her cell gets instruction to leave the room quickly , as she was about to she hears two men come in , she hides herself in the attached room
The Hotel Robber
lettie finishes her drink, takes out her cell phone from the bag, on the fifth floor she stands outside a master suite number 5212 and dials the reception to pass on her call through , lsitening the bell ringi inside five times she turns her cell off, with the key she opens the door and enters the vacant room and searches for valuables
Naiki Ka Silah
lettie was a petty thief, she was forced to be one for neccessity, in the restaurant near a window corner seat she orders a long cool drink for herself, the waiter looked handsome weightlifter, muscular who served her her favourite drink with a key and a paper napkin with a four digit number on it
Monday, August 22, 2011
Marriage Certificate
sabah moves in with naved in a rented house , there were somethings pricking her mind, her secret marriage, the marriage certificate is a pious paper, it was not given her, the lawyer was also brought in by noorin and naved on her behalf, the signatures she had made on the agreement was also with them
Secret Marriage
noorin had been married off , her father had found a perfect timid suitor who agreed to live with them, sabah missed naved --the handsome looking classfellow , taking noorin"s help she quietly gets married in noorin's room
To Have Money
as is customary , girls are to be married off, sabah"s parents found many suitors mostly on the clerical side for her whom she rejected for she wanted to be rich , she was tired of living poorly, she had seen other girls in the college how much fun it is to have money , to spend money , it makes things easier, life comfortable,
Noorin
noorin and her brother jamshed were also there, both had made friends rings round themselves, of those who obeyed them, liked them and were ready to please them
Laghzash--M.A. Rahat
sabah was a product of a low middle class family, in college other girls belonged to rich families, who attended classes to show off their beauty, glamour and came to kill their spare time , if they passed degree was an added asset
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Courage To speak
zahidah had courage to speak up before the crowded court, the truth and just the truth and doing that is not so easy,
Greed Wants More
both zahidah"s and her mother-in-law"s statements were similar, zahidah after manzoor"s death had shifted back to her own mother"s place, where salim had started showing sympathy to her, zahidah had also seen photocopies of her dead sister's property papers with signatures in his shelf hidden away that she had not transfered him
Lady Advocate
salha abad alkarim produced zahidah in the court as a witness, who was in a very odd position for she had been married twice to salim the accused and once to manzoor the murdered victim,
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Life Moves On
zahidah again meets salim, she felt guilty of breaking her promise of marrying him, she proved a good wife and daughter-in-law in her new house, the mother -in-law was also content with her and accepted her as family
Marriage-Divorce-Remarriage
Salim offers to marry her but she must first according to sherya law accept to marry manzoor , after their marriage both zahidah and manzoor decide to live together , they were extremely happy and pscychologically emotionally and sentimentally understood each other better, manzoor realised her dead wife was just a shadow of a memory, zahidah realised salim was just incompatible, making a fool of her by getting divorced and remarrying her , taking marriage very lightly
Life Is Unpredictable
once again zahidah and her mother get a shock of their lives , arifah and her complete family get killed in a car accident in dubai, salim comes to console them
Friday, August 19, 2011
The Meher Money
zahida was not well educated but she had no other liabiliteis either, she takes up a useful private part-time job and privately resumes her degree college studies that would enhance her potential , her mother had arranged to get all her things from salim"s house who was not in a position to pay zahida her meher money
The Tripple Talaq
zahidah was imposing restrictions on salim he resented, he was not well off but he was her husband and at least had the same rights to decide for himself , he commanded attention she rejected, thus he showed his resentment by giving her a tripple talaq, ayisha was dumbstruck witness, the next morning the mother daughter left salim"s house
Retunring Home Late
refusing to live with arifah in dubai ayisha sometimes for a change visits her elder daughter zahidah a local kerachi resident, it was not unusual for salim to see her at his place spending time with zahidah, one day he comes home late , the next morning ayisha is woken up by their shouting at each other on top of their voices and quarreling
Widowed Mother
zahida's father dies, and widowed mother is invited to stay with married daughters, but ayisha decides to live alone in the same house she had been since she was married,
Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Comparison
arifah sends invitations to her family back home to come and spend a month with her in dubai, zahidah is happy for her but feels low in comparison, she compares their husbands, status, wealth, arifah had a son she still was childless
Hardwork Begets Results
arifah's husband with his intelligence and sheer hardwork completes his higher sturdies to please arifah, he took contracts and finished every bit of his work perfectly , progressing outshining rising in society he needed more work force he brought from his native town, giving them opportunities to grow with him, he invested his extra wealth in many business projects that too began to show fruitful result, he was unable to count his his profits
arifah
arifah also gets married, to akhlaq ahmed an electrician in kerachi , less educated than her but wiser, sincere and hardworking, in dubai she settles down happily with him, when she became a mother of a son she felt she was the most blessed of all
Further Higher Studies
girls in eastern societies are not so much educated that it becomes difficult to find a suitable match, less educated are also a burden for boys reject them, after schooling young women stay home and do not get any chance to rise high in status socially, finacially they depend on others, but zahidah had after finishing her school made her parents see logic that college goers get better matches, the money they would save from her school fees could be invested in her further studies
Distances In Relationships
zahidah may not have been treated as a princess by her own parents, yet she had expected it from her in laws, salim also forgot she was his wife , his expectations were that she must also behave like his mother had perfectly properly towrds his father, ,in their relationship distances kept them away , four years passed by they were still childless
The Middle Class
life comes in many colours, both salim and zahidah had grown up in middle class families , where marriages are arranged by their elders, women are not extra - ordinary beauties, no talents to outshine them, no wealth to lure a catch
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Kaisi Wefah--alif siddiqui
salim 's usual regular routine day started with having his wife serve him breakfast before wight , at precisely eight he left for his office, they quarrelled if it was late or he had little time to finish his food on the table,
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