Unholy Alliance!!!

The headline of today's TOI says ,"Taliban now an ally of Pak army?"Hmm..If this is true ,man this is some very deadly alliance .This reminds me of something from "A lesson from the battle field" by Said Ramadan.He recounts a dialogue between one of his(Muslim brotherhood) friends and an Isaeli soldier.His friend was captured by Israeli's during the 1948 Arab- Israeli war.Just before his release he meets the Israeli officer and asks him if he can ask him a question.The question was"why did you not attack Sur Bahir?"Sur Bahir was a village near Jerusalem which had a lot of soldiers from Muslim Brotherhood.The officer replied that the village contained a lot of Brotherhood soldiers.Upon asking what difference did it make for the Israeli troops,the officer replied,'The fact is that the volunteers from Muslim Brotherhood
are completely different from your regular troops.For them fighting is not a duty which they fulfill within the bounds of tactics and of orders received,but a passion to which they devout themselves with whole hearted enthusiasm.In this respect they are similar to Israeli soldiers who are fighting for the sake of Israel.But the difference between us and them is that we are fighting o found a national state to live in ,where as they want to die!To attack people who are not only unafraid of death but actually aspire to die with an enthusiasm bordering on madness ,as if they were savage demons out to challenge mankind itself,to attack such people is like attacking a thicket full of wild beasts.It is a risk we prefer to avoid."

May be the Indian soldiers can take a lesson from the above before facing the deadly mixture of Pak army and Taliban militants!Lets sincerely hope that there will not be any military action between these two countries.

Khalil Gibran

Where are you leading me ,oh enchanting
houri,and how long shall I follow you
Upon this hispid road,planted with
Thorns?How long shall our souls ascend
and descend painfully on this twisting
and rocky path ?

Like a child following his mother Iam
Following you,holding the extreme end
Of your garment,forgetting my dreams
And staring at your beauty,binding
My eyes under your spell to the
Procession of spectres hovering above
Me,and attracted to you by an inner
Force within me which I cannot deny.

Halt for a moment and let me see your
Countenance;and look upon me for a
Moment;Perhaps I will learn your
heart's secrets through your strange
Eyes.Stop and rest.for I am weary,
And my soul is trembling with fear
Upon this horrible trail.Halt ,for
We have reached that terrible crossroad
Where Death embraces Life.

Padadhyanam man ,Padadhyanam!!!!

John McLaughlin

Words become puerile and inadequate when used for describing or opinioning on such a great genius like Johnji.There are great musicians ,great human beings,great artists,world class maestros. But if you want to use all these adjectives on one person ,here is the man -Sir John McLaughlin.

Richard Dawkins

" We are going to die ,and that makes us the lucky ones.Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats,scientists greater than Newton.We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.In the teeth of these stupefying odds is you and I ,in our ordinariness,that are here."
Richard Dawkins-Unweaving the Rainbow

Prof.Dawkins has always mesmerised me with his intelligence and powerful language.

Sade

"Conversations ,like some part of the anatomy,run smoothly with the help of some lubrication"- Marquis De Sade

Hah.....Pour more!

from atheist's Bible

fear Prophets...and those prepared to die for the truth,for as a rule they make many others die with them,often before them ,at times instead of them.

UMBERTO ECO

Hariji

I first heard Hariji in 1987 or 88.
I was in a cassette shop (no Cd's in those times)and wanted to try something new ..the shopkeeper who knew my tastes very well gave me this cassette named "Horizon" Ghazals by Hariharan.The name was new ,and I asked him to play the cassette before buying. The first song was "Aaj bhi hey mere kadmom"..That's it . Iam hooked on to him from that day to this very moment !...the man is a Gandharva in human form.