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  1. NYT headline: Wallet Stolen in 1982 Found in NYC Tree; $20 Gone
  2. @bintbattuta thanks for Jewish Bollywood link - I passed it to my Jewish Indian friend w/ Bollywood connections from way back.
  3. The Sheik who subjugated the Englishwoman in the 1921 novel turned out to be an Englishman raised as an Arab! What a cheat! And creepy.
  4. About to read E.M. Hull's The Sheik (1921) http://tinyurl.com/mcq64g - Englishwoman alone in desert, ravished by Sheik, falls in love, etc.
  5. My cook isn't well - she's dizzy a lot. The doctor couldn't find anything, but she's convinced there's too much water in her skull.
  6. @porousborders ... by people who knew nothing about it/her. I think it was mainly her good looks in that case.
  7. @porousborders 'pornography of spectatorship' - I completely agree. Remembering when far-from-saint Benazir was killed & therefore haloed..
  8. @porousborders jins ba ham-jins parvaaz / kabooter ba kabooter, baaz ba baaz (the only Persian I know)
  9. Indian TV news has more coverage of Obama swatting a fly than of Iran.
  10. @Maureen is it Farsi? I can read it, but can't understand it. man-naat = mind-song?...
  11. From Moni Mohsin's The Diary of a Social Butterfly: "..aik dafa aap ko log for granted take karna shuroo ho jayen, tau bus..."
  12. listening to Tufail Niazi singing Sufi kalam http://tinyurl.com/m5p93z from excellent Punjabi folk/Sufi site http://www.folkpunjab.com/
  13. @kitabet koi baat nahin
  14. Listening to some beautiful Abida Parveen Sufi songs from http://www.thesufi.com/sufi...
  15. Urdu & Hindi are transliterated so differently,vowels anyway,tho they sound the same.It's the different alphabets,but always surprises me.
  16. Watching India destroy Ireland in 20-20 cricket. Ireland??
  17. @qarrtsiluni I got an email yesterday, the piece about Tilting
  18. Watching Malayalis making fun of themselves: http://bit.ly/8PPY3
  19. Eating mangos from our own tree. For this moment, they are more delicious than anything.
  20. Marriage band passing. Hugely amplified guy singing salaam-e-ishq on- and off-key. Ish!