Comments on: Letter from Berlin

By: Postcards from the archive: Goodbye 2010

Postcards from the archive: Goodbye 2010 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:38:18 +0000

[...] moved to Berlin but continued to bring readers reviews of the quality that they have come to expect from him; [...]

By: sepoy

sepoy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:58:51 +0000

thx, Q!

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:48:46 +0000

A moving piece, tying together so many CM-specific threads too: A: hmedis; Lahore snaps/muhallas, history. I mean, obviously, but it’s nice to see your “blog life” bleed into the rest…

I was reminded of this old Khushwanth Singh piece: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?203610 (and, on re-reading, was struck by the class-privilege: “Locked in my first-class bogey, I neither saw nor heard anything.” That could be an epitaph for so many.)

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:12:23 +0000

My favorite Ghalib lines ever (given my last name, perhaps not surprising either). Remind me of the scene/setting of Paradise Lost (Book I) — in both cases, it seems to me (despite himself in Milton’s case), the artist’s sympathy is with the “idol” and/or the blasphemer…

By: Amit Julka

Amit Julka — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:22:57 +0000

It’s amazing that how it’s been 6 decades since my grandparents migrated to East Punjab, and yet the slightest mention of Gujranwala/Lahore(the rough geographical spread where my family resided) still evokes a feeling of imagined nostalgia in me….as Ghalib said ,
گو واں نہیں پہ واں کے نکالے ہوئے تو ہیں
کعبے سے ان بتوں کو بھی نسبت ہے دور کی
go vāñ nahīñ pah vāñ ke nikāle huʾe to haiñ
kaʿbe se un butoñ ko bhī nisbat hai dūr kī

great article sepoy sahib