Well, you guys are in luck. As it happens, I am a Harappan-American, and as such, belong to one of the original people of the land now called Pakistan (and India). It turns out that I am descended from the ancient Harappans on my mother's side.
Well, guys, we Harappans believe in the Great Buffalo in the Sky. We stand for less hostility, more civility. And the Great Buffalo in the Sky does not countenance discrimination against gays. So, two things: one, we ask Ghulam Nabi Azad to please keep very quiet about homosexuality in India. We have learnt that the Great Buffalo is not pleased. (Reference "Kusum Ingots v. Union of India".); and two, we would like to draw your attention to our secession from Pakistan. Given the intolerable conditions of our religious rights in Pakistan, we have been forced to declare ourselves a separate country. We do not recognize any religious law (Islamic, Hindu, Christian or any other) in any of our lands. We believe that our constitution will not only lead to basic human rights, but also lead to greater economic progress. We do not recognize laws against homosexuality in Pakistan, specifically, the ones that requires death (and other penalties) for homosexuals. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to pray to the Great Buffalo in the Sky. Oooooooooooooooooooooooom. Moooooooooooooooooooooooo. Oooooooooooooooooooooooom. Moooooooooooooooooooooooo. Oooooooooooooooooooooooom. Moooooooooooooooooooooooo. Anand :+: Linkback : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/519 ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan... We need somebody from Pakistan in here. Ideas? Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Anand Manikutty" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan... Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 8:37 pm There is some cooperative behavior to be seen in the changing of the guard obviously, but the hostility between the two sides is what jumps out. Yes, there is some cooperation going on, but it exists because it is what these people are supposed to do as part of their jobs in the first place. Anyway, some departure from rules and norms is to be expected in any organization. It is only the form that this sort of departure (from the rules and norms) takes that varies from one organization to another. Granted, it may be indicative of the underlying hostility to some people, but honestly, who doesn't know about the tensions between the two countries? So, to me, there is nothing surprising here. It doesn't add much to the big picture. Looking out from here in the U.S., the bigger picture is that India is doing a lot better than Pakistan. It is on course to continue to do even better. And this is because whereas India has painstakingly built up a reasonably efficient market economy (thanks to some fine institutions) over the years, Pakistan has not. That Pakistan has failed in this respect, to me, is very worrying. Anand :+: Linkback : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/515 ________________________________ From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan... On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:43 PM, gabin kattukaran <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >For all the supposed hostilities the choreography seems to indicate >some level of co-operation between the two sides. > > "Hostilitiy theatre"
