Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Munni badnaam hoi (And the Munni gets accursed)


Today I was reminded of a story written by a female university colleague of ours, back in university time.

The story's title was "Munni badnam hoi" and it was a narration of a  mother who enjoys her 3 years old son Abdullah singing this particular song and she does not stop her from doing this "immoral" act. Eventually at teenage, the boy turns into a real pain in a* for mother, and evolves into an indecent and stubborn guy, has a girlfriend, and go out with friends and does all the "immoral" activities he possibly has an access to. On this, a friend of the women tells her that it was because of the fact that she did not stop her from singing "Munni badnam hoi". This lead him to become a nuisance and a sinful young man.

If not Imran Khan, then who else?


I follow no aim in this case, so there is no question of any effort to sabotage any political campaign of Khan. To me he is a great cricketer of his times and a nice philanthropist. The dare he took in establishing first cancer hospital in Pakistan and an educational institution is worth-praising. But, there arise “buts” in his political position. I wonder still people think that one day they will wake up to find that I or people who have questions in mind about IK are the US lobbyists or alike, but Alas! That is highly improbable. Being a Pakistani I have equal right to feel concerns for my nation as do other people have and being a Pakistani one should be equally worried.

Losing my gears


Hassan Nisar at a TV Talk Show
There was a time, I remember, when we used to post respectable Hassan Nisar's views on society and religion. Those new and logical ideas made "The arrivals" and "constructive narrative" evaporate out of our heads. I even remember that whenever he used to opine in his challenging logical style, most of the people who are making him his hero now used to term him as Kaafir(Infidel). 99% of Imranists were of the view that he is a traitor and a RAW agent who does not acknowledge Ghaznavi or Ghauri as his heroes. A person who called written Islamic history a "BS" and who was always of the view that our society had become delusional by adopting fake fantasies and was always busy in cooking up conspiracies in its mind.

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain


Akif Zeb and Munazah Yousaf

The volition is strongly enveloped in the name of past and future. The appraisal has been nullified. Looking into the eyes and the frown on the face of their masters that do not match the grin on their cold lips, the scapegoats could not remember the line of hamlet, "One may smile and smile, and be a villain.."

Like the Claudius who is addressed here; the most evil person who usurps his brother's(hamlet's father)  throne and remarries the king's wife and hamlet's mother, their masters sustain the same evil grin and usurps each others' thrones and occupy each others'  possessions in an abhorring manner. The scapegoats are innocent and unaware of the frailty of their so-called guardian angels, the leaders. The difference is only one in the both scenarios, that the Kings in their system are as corrupt as the Claudius is.