Manufactured stories

This is becoming difficult to write or remember to write blogs although some "stories" do crop up in my old brain that I want to transfer to a "page". Today on UTube I heard a story about Nedo (not correct spelling)Hotel on the Mall in Lahore  I was familiar with it during my time in Lahore and that it was changed to (present day) Awari Hotel.

The commentator talks about Col T E Lawrence (Yes the same Lawrence of Arabia) who stayed in that hotel and met many other big shots playing (classical British high handedness in the removal/downfall of Amanullah the king of Afghanistan, also Kashmir, Sheikh Abdullah his Ghaddari for Kashmir etc etc I had thought He died in a motorcycle accident  as he returned to England after his Arabian experience.

             These days of fake everything and all Utubers who enjoy writing fibs and fakes I have started feeling sometimes disgusted from reading/seeing such things on U-Tube but Lawrance is noy an ordinary army officer He indeed was a calssical British Spy who played  some part in destroying Muslim influence and he did succeed everywhere He was in Lahore 1928-9 admittedly a short period for having success in his mission

 Dr Nasir Baig seems to be a well-educated speaker and collects a lot of real information

 from different sources. I was definitely surprised to listen to his account which may have been embellished to some extent

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Juneteenth

Too much, Forgot to write what I thought I had written

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Filmi songs and Rags

   I have written about filmi music previously twice or may be three times Many songs tunes are derived from one or more Rags here I have found the following Rags to be most popular;

    1. Rag Bhairaween     -   more than 30 popular songs

  2. RagPahadi  -  more than 20 songs

  3.  Rag Ayman Kaliyan 15 songs

  4.  Rag Dabari kanada  - 14 songs

  5 Rag Bheem Palasi  - 9 songs

     And there are others less common I have found There are my calculations of songs known to me so evidently there are more numbers. I have given here to indicate what re most popular tunes of calssical or semiclassical filmi songs

 MInd you the songs here are the ones known to me personally Others may find more but the numbers tell us clearly which tunes are most popular

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Physicians Art and relation with Patient

 There was a similar heading in 2010 but here I wish to talk here about "patient-physician" relationship

   There are several (new) problems of physicians (Physical) touch with a patient especially with modern advances like Ct  and MRI scans which is what keeps the physician busy, looking at the pictures or results and then he has more  eye contact with the computer screen than the patient where he finds all the info needed for diagnosis and treatment The healing from therapeutic effects of Physician touch even if just holding hand is becoming less and less with modern technological advances.

I have a long experience of all kinds of patients, children, and adults etc and have many memorable experiences but here I wish to relate an extremely  exciting example that I recall

 In a small hospital in England, I was looking after adult male and female patients and some pediatric ones too. A 3-4 year old girl was admitted in our childrens ward with "Failure to thrive" diagnosis

 She was able to sit unaided but could not stand or walk. There was almost no speech though she understood all that was said to her. There was no smile or any other emotional expression. That is severe physical and social retardation.

 The background was; no father or mother and no other father figure or such relations in the family. She was just abandoned. The whole circumstances picture I dont remember but you have got some picture now and she was up for adoption

  Her height and weight were those of two year old. I visited her daily and spent some time trying to play with her and sure enough in a couple of days she started responding to me The nurses told me she calls me Daddy So I started playing like a daddy with her  what we do with child patients anyway and she looked forward to my daily visits.

 I was amazed as were the nurses who were recording her height and weight as the graff was rising significantly and she started walking in one week, was speaking with everybody and evidently her sociability was advancing rapidly every day.

 I felt proud of of my person as a physician as well as felt humility

 Soon afterwards a family adopted her and I dont know if she progressed further. I guess she did.

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Three Talaq Law in Islam/revisited

        I have talked about Divorce in Islamic understanding in my Urdu blog in which

    I have written in English some aspects about what is called "three Talaq" so please see it there.

   My main reason for this reminder is that among Muslims it is generally considered to  always utter the word talaq three times instead of just saying one time, like saying by the Husband (A)  "I divorce you" and (waiting for the Iddat period to finish,  talaq is completed. So after that if the couple wants to go back together  they will have to have a new nikah with (A)  If this process is repeated for TWO more times that will complete three Talaqs after which they cannot remarry. Another situation of three successive talaqs is Husband says talaq one time and re-establish relationship before ending of Iddat period and this happens two more times  Now this husband (A) cannot marry that wife again UNLESS the wife marries somebody else (B) and lives a normal life with B and he cannot pull on with her and he (B) divorces her and she finishes iddat period then and only the she can remarry Husband A, if agreeable

     Unfortunately, in most of the dramas and movies I see from Bollywood or Pakistan, the divorce shown is the three times Talaq (in one sitting) even though it was said only one time (I just saw a drama of Halala). I have never seen any Bollywood or Lolliwood movie or drama in which one time talaq is shown. There is one Bollywood movie, an old one  "Nikah" in which this question is shown with clarification (Starring Raj Babbar) Any Talaq in such dramas is always taken as three talaq type (one sitting) and this was taken as three successive talaqs first  by our second Khalifa Umar RA and he had reasons which other close Sahaba including Ali RA agreed

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Filthy rich family

   1 -   Filthy (meaning the same also) rich family of the Shareefs (take opposite meanings)

   Well this made me feel so sad and angry that Maryam Nawaz just bought a luxury airplane

 "Well this family is one of the richest family in Pakistan and has been for over half a century. The price of the Plane is in Millions of dollars (Try converting into Pakistani currency). Add to it the maintenance, salary monthly of  the two pilots (Foriegn, even though Pakistanis are the best pilots in the world), Price of fuel,  spareparts, taxes etc. etc. is also in millions .

  Well they have the money so she can buy anything but where is she going to travel and what is the important engangements she must keep (currently not serving Pakistan Government but maybe  the government is on her personal service?) Maybe she needs to go shopping to Paris or America every so often.

  2 -  It reminds me of other filthy rich people like Trump or "Raja Hari Singh" of Kashmir 

If you know Urdu and want to see the detail of this Raja you should read QudratUllah Shahab book . ShahabNama

 He describes this type of richness using an example of how the raja used to clean himself after toilet. The servants will take about one "Thaan Lattha" (about 30-40 yards or maybe less of white cloth) and pull back and forth under the Tashreef of the Raja to clean daily and then leaving/donating that cloth for the poor people of Kashmir. The process described in full detail only Shahab Saheb's pen can do.

 3 - Trumps It is horrifying to know how much the sons and son-in-law of this President is making money from selling war material like Drones where they are being manufactured, yes his family member own such places I have given only one example about which I found out Long time ago when he was first elected President I said the Americans have made a huge mistake by electing this Megalomaniac or MAGAlomaniac, a known womaniser, a loudmouth boaster with fakes and fibs.  He was already known to have these charachteristics. Unfortunately he has now done all the damages that he could do to the whole world and not just America or The position of the President of USA

Wake up my American fellows, calling him idiot now is not helpful, so think about this when you go for voting next

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Rev Jesse Jackson

      Reverend Jesse Jackson

  Today I heard Barak Hussain Obama spoke at the funeral of Rev Jackson

    I am always impressed by Barak Obama speech but he recounted Jesse Jacksons life in brief pointing out very important features that matter for the Americans. The words he expressed about Trump and his administration without naming were very  true and  stinging and sarcasting. It is a treat to listen to him and I invite you to do that

"we are living in a time hard to cope. Every day we wake up to some assault on our democratic institution"   

 "We find some Americans are more "american" than others and some dont even count at all" 

 "Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and Bulling and mockery masqurading as strength" 

 We see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards every single day"

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Forgot to write this blog

  It seems I forgot to write this blog

Now I tried to open it and discovered even the title had not been written This clearly proves my memory deficit is interfering in my activities. I have noticed  "word-finding" type of problems for about a couple of years now Other aspects of "senile Dementia" are not yet noticable but  how long more I can wait 

I have been aware of learning new things difficulty for over a year also. So gradually  what Quran calls "Arzal-el-Umar" is here for me. 

  The Quran mentions about "things you knew and remembered are now escaping your memory" or something like that which the  prominent feature of the onset of Senility. I have to adjust and readjust things I do and the timings as to how to remind myself even my Namaz which gets disturbed. It is the "immediate" memory that is giving me hard time. Readers may also notice some poor words in my expression, Driving and trying to find/follow correct roads/streets is to say the least, very challanging

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Friday the 13th-2

Yes it is and  Close to the more famous 14th Feb, Valentine day

I have previously written blog  (See Dec. 13 2024) on this subject and thats why it reminds me of those days when the movie made this more like a slogan in 1980. I t seems more than one movie was made with this title

Other than that nothing special about it

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