June 2005

The Archives

• homistan

  Qissa Khawani Bazaar

  06.29.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Our friend bulleyah is fighting the good fight in Delhi. He emailed earlier in the week that Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazaar faces closure by those municipal goons. Surrounded as I am by city-block sized Border’s and B&N’s, I forget the pleasures, the sights and the sounds of a book bazaar. Imagine, if you will, a [...]

• homistan

  Tap Tap

  06.28.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Pakistan has lost the internets due to “a serious fault in the undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world”.
  In unrelated news, USS Jimmy Carter is a fine looking submarine. Ahem.
  In related news, some of your comments recently may have been blocked due to “questionable content”. My apologies. I accidently added the text [...]

• imperial watch

  Full Court Press

  06.28.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Speaking of courts, we should probably try to get our noggins round SCOTUS, which has apparently lost its damn mind.
  Earlier in CMís history, I wrote a little jeremiad on America getting the Supreme Court it deserved as punishment for allowing its legislature to punt all significant decisions sideways, to the ununelectable Supremes. I expected the [...]

• univerCity

  Grade A

  06.28.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Just a public notice and congratulations to my younger brother who received 10/13 [A!] in his Masters of Science [in Sand, Dirt, Oil and Rock?] exam at Aalborg Univerity! He is now certified to find oil in the North Sea and be richer than this academic pauper. We are all very proud.
  My one question [...]

• homistan

  The Rosa Parks Effect

  06.27.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Today, Mukhtar Mai appeared in front of the SC to plead the case against her rapists. Here is a very good timeline of her case - including the news that her passport has been returned to her. The central decision before the SC is whether the Federal Shari’at Court or the Lahore High Court have [...]

• homistan

  Our Sahib

  06.23.05 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  The controversy sparked by BJP prez Lal Krishna Advaniís comments about Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi earlier this month raises forcefully, once more, questions of the deeply politicized nature of historical memory ñ especially when it comes to major events and figures of colonial South Asia and the nationalist movement. In an uncharacteristic sentimental [...]

• homistan

  First Day of Summer

  06.21.05 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Outside our Nani’s house was a canal - taking water from the central Lahore Canal to the army fields in the cantonement. On my first trip alone to Lahore - this was seventh grade? - I sat along Joray Pull canal and, um, wished I could jump into the rushing muddy water. When we moved [...]

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for Pater Familias

  06.19.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Love, hugs and kisses to abba gee on this Father’s Day. the weather is nice today but it is supposed to REALLY heat up this week. Ugh. Next weekend, the iowocity crew is coming to town [hopefully], so I am psyching up for it. Anyways, off to the links, eh?

  Prithvi called to attention an op-ed [...]

• wizbango! tech

  Missing Apples in Benares

  06.17.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Have you heard of the Apple’s announcement that it will switch over to Intel processors? You must have. I have had many, many emails from readers asking what is my take on this amazing development. Ok, by “many, many” I mean “one”. And by “one”, I mean, “myself”. Seems like CM is not the go-to [...]

• homistan

  Free Mukhtar Mai

  06.14.05 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  In a bid to present the softer side of Pakistan, The General has restricted all movement of Mukhtar Mai - including any overseas travel. See, the softer side of Pakistan does not include any promotion of the fact that women get gang-raped by community consensus [panchaiyat or jirga] - when they are not bought, sold [...]