[lbo-talk] Ghazals of Ghalib (Re: The Last Mughal)

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 08:04:37 PDT 2007


On 4/24/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 24, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > How do people develop? Dialectically, or so suggest ghazals of
> > Ghalib, one of the witnesses to the Great Uprising.
> >
> > <http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/010/
> > index_010.html?urdu>
> >
> > ستایشگر ہے زاہد اس قدر جس باغِ رضواں کا
> > وہ اک گلدستہ ہے ہم بے خودوں کے طاقِ
> > نسیاں کا
>
> Golly, I sure am glad that Mac OS X comes with so many foreign
> language fonts!

In addition to Urdu poems, here's a Turkish slogan for you:

Hepimiz Ermeniyiz We Are All Armenians.

Today is a good day to remember that secular nationalism is worse for minorities than Islam:

<http://herodote.net/dossiers/evenement.php5?jour=19150424> 24 avril 1915 Le génocide arménien

Le samedi 24 avril 1915, à Istamboul, capitale de l'empire ottoman, 600 notables arméniens sont assassinés sur ordre du gouvernement. C'est le début d'un génocide (*), le premier du XXe siècle. Il va faire environ 1,2 million de victimes dans la population arménienne de l'empire turc. -- Yoshie



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