Kishwar merchant biography religion in japanese
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~ Spent the weekend dealing with some long overdue correspondence, listening to some choice ghazals and classical music, and chanced upon this video recording of the inimitable Iqbal Bano, the grand dame of ghazal and thumri in Pakistan. I had recorded it as it was screened on GEO TV (a popular and sometimes controversial Pakistani-based satelite channel) in memoriam, as she passed away earlier this year in Lahore.
I had been listening to an old cd of Ahmad Faraz ghazals, sung by all my favourites - Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali - and remembered some of those moments in life, when a phrase from a ghazal, a line of poetry, a cadence of lilting melody, can convey the tenderest feeling that touches the heart. Those are the moments one never forgets.
[This recording is significant for the audience members present, including the poet Ahmad Faraz, whose ghazal Iqbal Bano sings beautifully here; you may also see a much younger Ashfaq Ahmed sahib (am also enjoy
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Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business that primarily deals in the harvest of souls and for that it is willing to do the most reprehensible acts – such as selling new born babies in the manner that pet shops trade in puppies and kittens. There’s a difference though – animals sold in pet shops usually go to good, loving homes. On the other hand, Mother Teresa’s nuns weren’t the least bit bothered that innocent babies could end up in the hands of paedophiles, pimps or abusive foster parents.
The cult of Jesus is a toxic religion that has penetrated the vital organs of the nation state and threatens to weaken it from within. Whether it is nuclear weapons, strengthening the defence forces, strategic rockets or surgical strikes, Christians – whether they are
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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
Scholars have long recognized that the notion of “China” fryst vatten a culturally specific construction, and yet it seems impossible to escape the Chinese construction of China. The problems with the predominant construction of “China” are exacerbated by the fact that it reflects the ideology of a conquering state at the expense of dominated groups like the Tibetans and Altishahris. This article questions the dominant essentialization of China by examining China from the perspective of one of its conquered populations: the people of Altishahr. Chronologically, it focuses on the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century, an era when manuscripts were produced and used in large numbers.
The Altishahris discussed here were Turki-speaking, sedentary Muslim inhabitants of the region they knew as Altishahr (also known as Eastern Turkestan, Chinese Turkestan, Kashgaria, or Xinjiang Nanlu), which came under China