CITY TO PAY £135M FOR RONALDO?

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well - lets see what becomes of Pakistan now..

will it be eaten up by hordes of cannibalistic goats

will the lich king finally take over

will the vampire slayer save his love from getting eaten by chewbaccas

will raspberry flavoured jam be free

what about the bread

when will musharraf take off his uniform..

wait..

didnt we just have that one?

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Lust for Life

Irving Stone

Well. I guess even if this book was fictitious, I would have still been heavily inclined towards believing that it was indeed a true story. This books takes you from Amsterdam to the Borinage, to the Hague and Nuenen, Paris, and then off to sunny Arlesian earth. It puts the lives of the Impressionists in perspective. It makes you learn new things about colors and lines, and appreciate the naked brashness of reality. An unbelievable story of an unbelievable man - Vincent Van Gogh.

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

I fail to see whats special about this overhyped overpriced predictable piece of writing. Only provides good humour in fits and spurts, at best. The author tries to play the nonchalant narcissistic impersonation card but it turns out horribly wrong when he makes repeated jibes at planes and drugs he hardly knows about, it seems. Still, the charity goes on..

we saw the revival of pakistani cinema..

why hasnt this been tagged the revival of pakistani literature yet - the question still bemuses me

perhaps someone forgot to bestow this token this time..

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Mush

Why Happy Birthday Mr. Musharraf! :D

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i m in the computer labs at the moment in my uni.

a person sitting in front of me is listening to a naat about 'gunah' by ovais raza qadri while writing codes in macromedia dreamweaver

the worst of combinations

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The General in His Labyrinth (Everyman's Library)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

First of all, sincere apologies. It seems my internet connection (in a curious collusion with vox) has prevented me from posting a less apt pictorial representation of 'The General in his Labyrinth'. This Don Juan-esque father figure wrapped under the eternal blanket of ethereal old age is not what you should be looking at before reading this book.

Secondly, this comes, in part, as a testament to my ailing and fledgling memory. It is in fact its weakness that has forced me to contemplate writing a bit about this book imminently - for I would forget whatever interesting anecdotes I had.

The General's 'labyrinth' is expressed openly at the end of the book but it is not the central message of the book that i wish to talk about. Ofcourse, on the whole, this book shows you 'beauty' and the depths of 'simplicity', and how one is fortunate if one is able to look at his life in retrospect and have the ill humour to laugh about it. However, the secret of the 'unputdownability' (the utter claptrap that mohsin hamid manages to come up beggars belief) of this book is its slow detail. Crocodiles lazing around the River Magdalena - their mouths drooping open in search of butterflies. The General loving the fact that he has a hugeass window and outside there are guava trees - waiting for the sunlight to pierce through this euphemistic forest of sorts while listening to Captain Iturbide sing about forlorn tempests and lovers collapsing in each others arms.. listening to the sound of ripe guavas hitting the ground for the first time and revelling in that moment.

Its a really nice book.

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Perhaps the strongest grip on the notion of 'reality' we can have, to date, is the acceptance of its immense propensity for fuzziness. Anything else is delusion, put politely, and fascism, put crudely.

Although I hate labels.

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"If the tempest continues and the hurricane blows, put your arms around my neck, let the sea swallow us."

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i believe this (see article below) is quite brilliant.. just today i was thinking about the curious paradox existing between power and constraints... heres more:

Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border

29 May 2008

Uncontacted Indians in Brazil seen from the air, May 2008 © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI

Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border. The photos were taken during several flights over one of the remotest parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre state.

‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior. Meirelles works for FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department. ‘This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.’

Meirelles says that the group’s numbers are increasing. But other uncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru. Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.

‘What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world,’ said Meirelles.

There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes worldwide, with more than half living in either Brazil or Peru. All are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed and decimated by new diseases. Survival has launched an urgent campaign to get their land protected, and a unique film narrated by actress Julie Christie.

Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist. The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct.’

For further information please contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org

Act now to help uncontacted Indians

Please write a letter to Peru’s president asking him to recognise his country’s isolated Indians’ land rights – and by doing so protect uncontacted peoples on both sides of the Peru-Brazil border.

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