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I think we are digressing but in continuation of your post I must remind you that Rati was a kid (16) when she married Jinnah. And a kid madly in love. Add to that the fact that you cannot get married to a muslim, unless you convert. What were her 'choices' Kakgeta? An 'offer' she could not...

Kakgeta I invite you to read what I have written again. It is unacceptable to every religion for a member to leave. Even more unacceptable if the member is made to leave. If you expect your bride to accept your religion by forsaking her own, why the double standards in disowning your own...

Wonderfully articulated sir. The positively delicious irony leading credence to your sexism theory is that the same great man earlier had absolutely no problem in marrying, and converting to Islam, a Parsi girl himself, if I recall my history correctly?

I think Ayesha Siddiqi may well turn out to be the biggest thing that happened to Indian civil society since Shah Bano, and lend the much needed impetus to make a common uniform Indian Civil Code a reality soon. So that more than anything else gives weight to what would otherwise soon lose steam...

Middle class common people. Joe public. Sure. Both our countries have them. But aside from common ground like the US or the UK or Dubai or Australia or Canada or some other neutral country, where do these two huge sections of society meet or get to know each other? Where is the common ground...

I am sorry to say sir but your argument displays two marked fallacies. (1) Your complete ignorance about the socio-religious-anthropological dynamics of the European people and their history (which incidentally post-date ours by a few thousand years of civilization); and (2) Your self-inflicted...

With the luxury of hindsight, something denied to our forefathers during the smelting of our nations in the crucible of the Independence movement, we can say with a pretty high degree of certainty today that India has done pretty good in the intervening years post the Partition. What however is...

Thanks for the explanation. I buy your theory on English definitely. And as for the rest, I hope what you say is true and all power to you and your expat compats as well as Pakistan and native Pakistanis in general. I believe it would be good for India too in many ways were the educated cream of...

As an Indian I know very little about Pakistan beyond what's in the media and to an extent forums like this. But one point keeps sticking out no matter which way you analyse Pakistan's situation. And that is not the age old Pakistan commoner meat in the Pakistan Polity and Army sandwich. It is...

You seem to be hung up on donkeys. Have they displaced goats now? Being an ugly Indian I really wouldn't know. :P

Because we are not pathans. :rofl:

Speaking of fair skinned pathans, in continuance of this off-topic banter, what's the use of the fair skin and the good looks when a goat would do as well. Back to the topic.

Khan, non-Khan, dusky or fair, whatever turns up the heat for hot blooded Indian males, works for us. We are very equal-opportunity in that respect. I saw a movie starring sunny deol as a jatt married to ameesha patel playing a Pakistani girl last night. I for one wouldn't have minded a...

I am sorry but what you are saying makes no sense. Do you know the difference between a leading lady, an item girl, and a dance sequence extra? That said, do you know the difference between what each is paid? When was the last time you saw a Hindi movie with a white leading lady? So where does...

In the final analysis, the 'goons' as you refer to them will have no say in deciding whether she leaves India or not. We have set rules on who is allowed to work for profit in India and who cannot, and these will be enforced by the concerned authorities. Today it is her. Tomorrow it could well...

Bollywood is not a not for profit organisation. They will exploit what will sell. Be it white skin or big heaving busts or drenched saris. So let us not get all uptight about it. I personally think the girl is cute and should have been given a work visa. They have also come down on that well...

I still do not get your point friend. Is it your stand that Indians in the US are all illegals? If that is the case then you really are on extremely shaky ground based on your own nationality friend. I guess that was the substance of my compatriot's retort. My original point remains. Why make...

Creder I did read the posts before making mine but thank you for the effort of sequentially pasting them out for my benefit all the same. Your point being? That because there is resentment in the US against Indians taking plum US jobs, it is unreasonable to have similar resentment in India...

A Pakistani living and presumably earning his living in Canada, doing a Canadian's job, earning a Canadian's living, passing judgement on Indians in the USA, is more than a little rich in my most humble opinion. Ditto for my Pakistani friend from the UK. Must you vitiate the thread by unwanted...

Well whether it is understood or not, we have No First Use as part of our doctrine, and you do not. We can debate the semantics or assign reasons thereof to no realistic conclusion. Be that as it may, I am embarrassed to point out that there will be no one alive on your side to actually need to...