Benazir Bhutto

With all those French, Polish, Spanish and Swiss charges of money laundering against her, her 1.5 billion dollar assets and statements like "We will hand over AQ Khan to America" and "We will allow Americal troops to find Osama in Pakistan", Benazir was never my favourite. I never liked her coming back, I hated the NRO. But what happened yesterday never ever crossed my mind. The news had me moved quite a lot. Its another national tragedy in the history of Pakistani politics. Her father was hanged in the same city. The first Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was assassinated in the same place as where she was addressing people, hence the name Liaqat Bagh (formerly it was called Company Bagh). And its not just her, so many other innocent lives that have gone waste, so many other lives that will be wasted in the coming days in protests. Pakistan has never been stable politically since its creation. Will it ever be? Its all a game of gaining power. Leaders killing, sacking, sending to exile each other. They shouldnt be called leaders by the way if it is just power that they strive for. And the common people, well they have never been a matter of interest at higher levels.

People responsible for her assassination can possibly be:

*The Chaudhrys and the remains of Zia ul Haq as she had said herself that they wanted her removed. (In which the government administration stands responsible too...how did the assassin manage to get through the security gates with weapons and bomb unnoticed? In that case it all seems pre planned)

*The family of her brother Mir Murtaza, who believed that she was responsible for Murtaza's killing.

*Islamic millitants who might have wanted her removed because of her pro American views.

*Other anti Pakistani forces who wanted to destabilise the country even more.

Will we ever be able to stop this blood shed? Will the transfer of power be ever smooth in Pakistan? I think Pakistan needs a complete revolution. Thats the only solution. A strong dedicated person taking over everything and putting the country on the right path.

Tala Chandrika

This is a cycle of 8 1/2 beats. Ive never heard this tala anywhere else. The raga is more common. Its the pentatonic Megh, the monsoon raga.

Gender inequality?

Ever wondered why the great scientists, philosophers, musicians and painters are mostly male? All you can come up is a feminist view that women are not given enough chances. They are suppressed and harassed and maltreated by men. However I found out a fact which might as well be another reason.

*Males have 26 billion neurons in their neocortex while females have only 19 billion (Neocortex is a part of brain that is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and language)

*Males have more grey matter in their brain while females have more white matter (Grey matter consists of the neurons while the white matter is just the nerve fibres)

(from My Brilliant Brain, National Geographic Channel)


P.S. Im not a masculist or something but a fact is a fact. Sorry ladies :-)

Goats

A goat might not be the mans best friend but some of them certainly love human beings. They need to see a man all the time. The moment they cant see any person near by they start bleating no matter how many other goats they have to their company. You are lucky if you get such a goat on Eid? Might be. But only before the Eid day. To see such a goat being slaughtered infront of your eyes will certainly hurt you. I really hate this animal slaughtering.
The Eid day passed as usual. Molvi sahab's sermon at the Eid prayer was interesting. Referring to the mobile ring tones he said, "masjidon main likha honay k bawajood mobile bol partay hain...yani namaz k doran moseeki...tobah astaghfirullah...ab to logo ne alarms bhi moseeki walay lagaye hotay hain (that was astonishing to him and his astonishment made me astonish) ...main science k khilaf nahi laikin jithay v jao ae science bol paindi ae..chahay banda so raha ho ya kaheen or ho (he was so dumb and could not even realise that it was solely due to science that his voice was audible to that gathering of thousands) ...ye moseeki musalmano ka sheva nahi hai...sab bhai hath ooper karain or kahain k ainda moseeki or ganay walai bell nahi sunain gay" I was among those who did not raise their hands.
No wonder why we cant progress. I mean these molvis can be a great help to bring a social change. No other person gets so frequent a chance to address a large gathering of people. They could discuss social/political matters at the sermons. They could talk about the upcoming elections. They could advise us to cast our votes. They could talk about the flour shortage in the markets, the loadshedding, the high prices. They could talk about the suicide bombings. They could talk about international issues. What does music has to do with all that? If they think that discarding music will automatically reform everything then I think they are living in a fool's paradise. The country's state can change if all the molvis start taking part in the country's development programs.

Ismail Gulgee

The reknowned painter, sculptorist of Pakistan found dead yesterday along with his wife and a servant in his Karachi residence. He was 81. He started painting when he was studying engineering in Columbia and Harvard Universities, USA. He was comissioned to paint a portrait of King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan. He also painted the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, Prince Karim Agha Khan, Queen Fara Diba of Iran and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Then his interest grew in calligraphy and sculptors, and introduced inovative ideas. He made sculptors of bronze, marble and other precious stones.

A deep sigh is all I can react to this.

More music quotes

"Music, music above all, the rest is literature."

Paul Verlaine, French poet.

"If music be the food of love, play on."

William Shakespear

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy"

Albert Einstein

Lucky wife

"Your wife will be very lucky to have you"

Now that three separate people have said this to me, I really believe it :-D

Raga Tilak Kamod

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A rare raga and one of my favourites. I am really impressed at the way this lady has rendered it. Exceptionally beautiful.