Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Muslim hospitality

Attending a Muslim marriage these days is a painful experience. If the time given is 7 pm, the function starts at least two hours late. A guest is not received by anybody. Host is not to be seen. In Hindu marriages you are received with sprinkling of rose water at the entrance.
Guests keep looking for the host, who is not to be seen. About 15 years ago ‘mehman nawazi’ was the in thing, but these days it is ‘mezbaan nawazi’. The moment ‘nikah is over ‘guests’ rush in to the dining hall. Some even reserve seats for their friends or relatives. The way ‘guests grab the dishes is to be seen to believe. After food they look for the host. They hug him and leave.

Walima dinner is worse. I am not talking about food quality. Dinner is not served till the groom arrives. If the dinner time is 9 pm the groom arrives past 10 pm. There are, I think two reasons, the previous night ( nikah day) bride leaves with groom at 3 pm, the next reason could be the groom is too tired (you know).

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Monday, March 28, 2011

Dr Manmohan Singh as Governor of RBI


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Dr singh, our PM, signed these when he was governor of RBI

Aluminum coins


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These coins are not in circulation.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Fear of small numbers

Life term adequate for Staines murder convicts: SC

"Though Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burnt to death while they were sleeping inside a station wagon at Manoharpur, the intention was to teach a lesson to Staines about his religious activities, namely, converting poor tribals to Christianity," it said. While condemning killings in the name of religion, the bench also expressed its disapproval of conversion. "It is undisputed that there is no justification for interfering in someone`s belief by way of `use of force`, provocation, conversion, incitement or upon a flawed premise that one religion is better than the other," said the bench.

After thought:
The Bench ordered deletion of this paragraph and replaced it with -- "However, more than 12 years has elapsed since the act was committed, we are of the opinion that the life sentence awarded by the high court need not be enhanced in view of the factual position discussed in earlier paragraphs."

The paragraph ordered to be deleted from the judgment read -- "It is undisputed that there is no justification for interfering in someone's belief by way of `use of force', provocation, conversion, incitement or upon a flawed premise that one religion is better than the other."

It will now be replaced by -- "There is no justification for interfering in someone's religious belief by any means."

Source: Times of India of 21.1.11 and 26.1.11