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MOTHER'S
STORY
by Taslima Nasrin
There is, I know, no reincarnation,
no last judgment day:
heaven, bird meat, wine, pink virgins -
these are but traps set by religionists.
Mother will go to no heaven,
Will not walk in any garden with anybody.
Cunning foxes will enter her grave, will eat her flesh;
her white bones will be spread by the winds.
Still, I want to believe in Heaven
over the seventh sky, or somewhere,
a fabulous, magnificent heaven
where my mother reached
crossing the impossible bridge, the Pulsirat, with ease.
And a very handsome man, the prophet Muhammed,
has welcomed her, embraced her, felt her melt on his hairy
chest.
She will wish to take a shower in the fountain,
She will wish to dance, to jump with joy,
She will do all the things she has never done before.
The bird meat will arrive on a golden tray.
My mother will eat to her heart's content.
Allah Himself will come by foot into the garden to meet her,
put a red flower into her hair, kiss her passionately.
She will sleep on a soft featherbed,
be fanned by seven hundred Hur, the virgins,
be served cool water in silver jag by beautiful gelban, the
young angels.
She will laugh, her whole body will move with enormous
happiness,
she will forget her miserable life on Earth.
An atheist,
how good I feel
just to imagine
somewhere there is a heaven.
'If any religion allows the
persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion
keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in
ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.
NANDIGRAM, HEY RAM !
How the Marxist
cadres and goons teamed up to 'liberate' Nandigram ...
The Haldi river bordering Nandigram
is quiet and in mourning. On November 5, six battalions of armed
CPI(M) cadres surrounded Nandigram in East Midnapore. Their
mission: to 'recapture' villages from the Bhumi Uchched
Pratirodh Committee (BUPC)-a Trinamool Congress-led front
against land acquisition for the proposed special economic zone
(SEZ).
The cadres were armed with AK series rifles, INSAS rifles, SLRs,
.303 guns and bombs. Three of the battalions were sourced from
West Midnapore's Garbeta block, three to four hours from
Nandigram, and were led by its local committee secretary Sukur
Ali. The other three battalions were from the West Midnapore's
Chandrakona region, three hours from Nandigram, and were led by
its district committee member Tapan Ghosh. Both Sukur and Tapan
are wanted by the CBI in a case relating to the burning alive of
seven anti-CPI(M) activists in Chota Angaria.
Read Tathagata Bhattacharya of THE WEEK in Nandigram18nov.2007
Musharraf's bid
Pakistan under martial law
Hours after
declaring a state of emergency Saturday, Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf ordered troops to take a television station's
equipment and put a popular opposition leader under house
arrest....CNN
story
SO we are back to square one.
Back to Oct 12, 1999. All the gains over the years have gone
down the drain. All this talk about the forward thrust towards
democracy, about the impending 'third phase' of the political
process and the lip service to the sanctity of judiciary turned
out to be one great deception. The people have been cheated...writesDAWN
Beyond the dance of death
Intelligentsia in Pakistan and the world
People
as the source of power
Your critics in Pakistan turn around and say, 'This is just
for herself'. They say you are just courting General Musharraf
because you are desperate to get the corruption charges against
you dropped. ..Asks Karan Thapar ....
An Interview with Benazir Bhutto
Farce in Islamabad
THE re-election of General Pervez
Musharraf as Pakistan's president on October 6th was “fair and
transparent”. That was the considered judgment of his chief
sidekick, the prime minister. “Unrepresentative, rigged and at
gunpoint” would have been nearer the mark. General Musharraf is
inching towards a destination that, in the abstract, appears
acceptable: a power-sharing arrangement with Benazir Bhutto, a
former prime minister who leads Pakistan's most popular
political party from exile.more...
The Supreme Court ruled that President Pervez
Musharraf had no authority to suspend Pakistan's top judge and
ordered him reinstated, a major blow to the standing of the
general ....more.
The worsening crisis in Pakistan
over the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
could block President Pervez Musharraf's bid to seek a second
term, a study by a Washington-based think tank has said.
more
Unrest in Pakistan Threatens Musharraf
Government
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