Pro life

Are they environmental conservationists? No, they dont a shit about environment.

They are vegan or vegetarian then? Caring for animal life! Lol! No! On the contrary they support recreational hunting!

This is US, they must be the guys who want to ban guns. No!!! They are fighting against gun control.

They must be against wars? Nope! 

Against black peoples deaths in police shootings? 

Against death penalty? 

Then how the fuck are they pro life??? Morons. ( when you derive your morals from a book ... thats a topic for another post)

Anti abortionists calling themselves pro-life, cant they be sued under unfair advertising act or something?

zindagi gulzar hai

I think the draw of the Pak serial is more to observe the culture than the story for me. I am very curious to know how similar and how different they are. In search of Shiva in Pakistan was the book which made be really curious about the country and its past. How deeply etched the shared Sikh Muslim culture was to Pakisthan, such a pity partition happened. It made me realise that our assuption that countries keep getting more liberal with time and that urban areas are liberal than rural may not be universally true. Also made me realise how deeply etched history is in the present and how culture is accumulated history. 

I have always been an advocate of throwing away old for the new, My new was mostly western, I now realise, Dont be hasty in throwing away, because We may be swayed by the wrong "new" like Pakistan's "new", for example is unfortunately Saudi Wahabi culture, where as their old is more tolerant mix of sufi, shia culture which imbibed/retained the Hindu/Sikh culture. 

How people dont give away old traditions but just fit them under new religion was interesting,When you think about it Brazils carnival does not exactly fit in with Vatican Christianity, does it? 

In Spite of trying to break away from India and Hindu past with a vengence, I was thrilled to hear references to Sita and Blessings like sada suhagan raho!! (of all the things) in the serial. 

Cultural remix

Watch 2-3 Korean dramas, completely immerse yourself in them and then suddenly watch a Pakistan drama. Thats it. Add to that western culture all around me and on TV and  80s Indian culture in my head!
That was enough to get a good brain freeze and a real messed up head :D

I cant believe how confused I got and how I got a real headache by doing this, my brain was so confused, it was ridiculous. Real headache I got 😀 This is what is called a culture shock? :-)

K Drama super cute and innocent romance, which I love,  then the Super conservative Pak romance where the word Mohobat. was uttered once only in episode 15 :) and then Mix it up with moronic teenagers smooching disgustingly in the tube station. culture engine in my brain couldn't take it, It burnt out!

It took me 3-4 episodes to realise that this guy and this girl are actually girl friend and boy friend in the Pak drama. Ha ha! Takes me right back to high school days when I thought romance was fictional, happened only in movies :) See this is exactly how 80s India was :)

Actually another confusion was that this was a Pak drama has some substance , I realised most of the stuff we watch these days Korean or hollywood - No substance, only entertainment. hmmmm!

I want to be buried and not cremated, and I want to be buried without a coffin. cozy in the soil, being eaten away by earth worms becoming compost,  one with earth, not in a cold coffin shrivelling! I am an earth person not a fire one.

What a weird thought!

 This is what happens when you plant(bury) 200 tulip bulbs, you start thinking you are one bulb yourself! I must be one nut! ground nut! he he! 

If this world is a game of chess

who are the pawns and who are the players? 

In life? I am spectator or player or pawn? play different roles at different times?