http://www.tanhaa.net Notes from the underground! Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:46:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some movies teach you a lot about life, although they are meant for entertainment, movies are a great way, in my humble opinion, to escape reality for a few hours, just like video games, and I believe everybody needs that escape, people have different ways to make that escape, some ... http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2008/08/19/fearless/ An excellent movie to watch: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8545585184878490822&q=michael+tsarion&total=259&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 A line that caught me was a question from a reporter directed towards President Bush Jr. "Is US credibility on line with respect to the WMDs in Iraq?" Reply: "I'm not exactly sure what that means" LOL http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2008/01/30/future-of-mankind/ Merry Christmas to all my friends out there who do celebrate it :-)  (lets not be politically correct and say "Happy Holidays", what a bunch of bull-crap that is, it's Christmas and even though we are not Christians, I don't get offended if someone says "Merry Christmas" to me). Here have ... http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/12/24/merry-christmas/ Here are some couplets I read today by Riaz Khairabadi zaahid sharaab peene de, masjid meiN baiTh kar yaa vo jagah bataa de jahaaN par Khudaa na ho Khuda ke haath hai bikna na bikna ma_e kaa ab saaqi baraabar masjid-e-jaame' ke ab rakh di dukaaN maiN ne ----------------------------- Hasrat Mohani: nahiiN aati to yaad unki maheenoN ... http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/11/01/bikhre-ashaar-3/ There's this feeling, that one can get, every now and then, of something nagging. It doesn't necessarily have to do with anything.. anything in particular, but something.. perhaps, someone, perhaps not. I think in this new nazm, I tried to capture it, though I might have failed miserably, ... http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/10/30/gumaan/ Indian advertisements are hillarious!  Everytime I go there, I love watching their ads so here's one ad by a Permanent Marker company! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbCsVORY8Bk] http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/10/11/permanent-marker-ad-india/ Some ash'aar by Munawwar Rana siyaasi aadmi ki shakl to pyaari nikaltii hai magar jab guftagoo karta hai chingaari nikaltii hai laboN par muskuraahaT dil meiN bezaari nikalti hai baRe logoN meiN hi aksar ye beemaari nikalti hai ------ balandi der tak kis shaKhs ke hisse meiN rahtii hai bahut uuNchii imaarat har ghaRi Khatre meiN rahtii ... http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/10/10/bikhre-ashaar-2/ betaabi-e-dil beshak palkoN pe chali aanaa lekin ye teri had hai is had se na baRh janaa aadaab-e-muhabbat meiN, zabt ek baRi shai hai kuchh bhi ho magar aie dil, aavaaz na ban jaanaa (Jagan Nath Azad) http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/10/08/bikhre-ashaar-1/ Woot! :-D My older brother just became a dad to his second son. Name hasn't been selected yet... This is so cool http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/10/08/im-an-uncle-again/ Read an interesting editorial in the October 1st issue of The Gazette, Montreal about Ahmadinejad and Iran. The article written by a professor of International law at Mcgill University, Montreal definitely craves attention from all those who are offended by Ahmadinejad's recent appearance in US. While I invite ... http://www.tanhaa.net/index.php/2007/10/08/iran-and-ahmadinejad/