BOYCOTT PARTITION!

Writing by shinda on Wednesday, 31 of January , 2007

 

For those of you who follow the comments the above video clip isn’t really news, but I thought I’d share it anyways. Incidentally Hollywood has decided to take an interest in the saga that once divided Punjab, and has decided to go down a path that even Bollywood is weary of traveling down.

The thing that Bollywood understands better then Hollywood, is that even though ‘84 was a huge atrocity and slap against the Sikh psyche, the Sikh community in India and abroad is nonetheless greatly divided on the whole thing with many Sikhs themselves having accepted the blame for the events of the mid 80’s. Yet when it comes to the topic of partition and India’s independence the vast majority (of Sikhs) let their patriotism shine through.

That goes without saying though, considering that a majority of those who suffered (lost land, wealth, lives etc) were Sikhs. Majority of the armed forces that battled against Pakistan at the time were Sikh (90% if memory serves me right), and it was the Sikhs after all who lost the freedom to access Nakana Sahib. Taking all that into account it should be no surprise that naturally a movie that tends to show Sikhs in a negative light in that whole saga won’t exactly be praised or win any acclaims from this side.

Now in all fairness I have yet to watch the trailer with any sound, but then again the pictures in the scenes do speak for themselves, and it’s no surprise that this movie offends at multiple levels. First it attacks the sentiments of those who hold the Sikhi saroop in high esteem with the man’s cutting his hair and all for his girl. Then it insults the more general Sikh populous with the whole converting to Islam (the enemy) thing.

How it ends up I guess you’d have to watch the movie to find out. Does he keep his kes again?, or does he win over his girl with his new found faith? Does their love conquer all and do they defy all religious, cultural and whatever other boundaries they had separating them to be together? Does Clark reveal his powers to Lana and steal her away from this fool? One can only speculate, but that would involve watching the movie, which after all we are trying to boycott.

Then again who really cares? Its just a movie, a chic flick at that, so who out of ‘yall (those having already commented) would have gone to see this movie anyways? Be honest, by even bringing it this much attention we are doing exactly what the directors and producers always wanted, creating a buzz. A buzz, good or bad, which will create a sense of curiosity in peoples minds, making them to want and see more of the movie. Making those inept of pirating the movie from mininova to actually go and pay to even watch it, fueling the economic engine, making this project all worth while for the producers to begin with.

Now that i think about it, why are we so pissed again? Is it at the fact that they’re showing a Singh converting to Islam? or are we pissed at them showing him cutting his hair? or was it that raunchy scene with him and Kristen that’s got us all buzzing for the boycott? After all if thats whats got our kashera’s in a knot then don’t we got bigger problems to worry about, seeing as how 18 year olds are leaving Sangat, doing the devils powder, and murdering mans?

Oh well I said my piece, time to get back to work.

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Dangerous Flash

Writing by shinda on Friday, 26 of January , 2007

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Print Screen

Writing by shinda on Thursday, 25 of January , 2007

If ctrl + alt + print screen doesn’t seem to work, then you can always try doing this:

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The Baba

Writing by shinda on Saturday, 20 of January , 2007

Story :- PanthicWeekly

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Don’t Do Drugs…

Writing by shinda on Thursday, 18 of January , 2007

…..unless your Mann Singh’s chelay then I suggest you get wasted, but more on that later..

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All hail the father of india…

Writing by shinda on Tuesday, 16 of January , 2007

I hate gandhi, have hated Gandhi and will probabbly forever despise the man who is so falsely misrepresented as being the leader of India’s independence. None the less he is the father of India, so when a video of him performing a strip tease surfaced on youtube a month ago, the fools down in India’s government quickly took notice, and are now trying to get the video banned from youtube and looking into banning YouTube.

None the less I have to thank the Indian media for bringing the video to my attention since I thought it was pretty funny although the joke does run a little long, but then again I guess anything bashing Gandhi will make my day.

Note the video is disturbing so if you have sensitivity issues, then you’re better of not watching it.

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The curse which is technology

Writing by shinda on Friday, 12 of January , 2007

Technology tempts us to dawdle, study finds

SETH BORENSTEIN
thestar.com

WASHINGTON – Procrastination in society is getting worse and scientists are finally getting around to figuring out how and why. Too many tempting diversions are to blame, but more on that later.

After 10 years of research on a project that was only supposed to take five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise, it makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier.

Something has to be done about it, sooner rather than later, University of Calgary professor Piers Steel concludes. His 30-page study is in this month’s peer-reviewed Psychological Bulletin, published by the American Psychological Association.

In 1978, only about 5 percent of the American public thought of themselves as chronic procrastinators. Now it’s 26 percent, Steel said.

And why not? There are so many fun ways to kill time – TVs in every room, online video, Web-surfing, cellphones, video games, iPods and Blackberries.

At work, email, the Internet and games are just a click away, making procrastination effortless, Steel said.

“That stupid game Minesweeper – that probably has cost billions of dollars for the whole society,” he said.

The U.S. gross national product would probably rise by $50 billion if the icon and sound that notifies people of new email suddenly disappear, he added.

And there’s good reason to worry right now about the problem of procrastination.

“People who procrastinate tend to be less healthy, less wealthy and less happy,” Steel said Wednesday. “You can reduce it, but I don’t think you can eliminate it.”

Psychologist William Knaus, who has written several self-help books on fighting procrastination since 1977’s Overcoming Procrastination, said Steel is “absolutely right.”

He said he found it harder to wean chronic procrastinators from the habit of delaying than to wean alcoholics from booze. Knaus mentioned one businessman who spent 40 hours of delay time to avoid five minutes of work.

“It’s a huge problem,” Knaus said. “I think the majority of mental disabilities people have – anxiety, panic – they can be defined as a special case of procrastination.”

There is personal financial fallout from procrastination, too. Delay in filing taxes on average costs a person $400 a year and last-minute Christmas shopping with credit cards was five times higher in 1999 than in 1991, Steel found in a review of more than 500 economic and psychological studies about putting off unpleasant chores.

Steel’s study found that in the past quarter century, the average self-score for procrastination (using a 1-to-5 scale with 1 being no delaying) has increased by 39 percent.

Overall, more than a quarter of Americans say they procrastinate. Men are worse than women (about 54 out of 100 chronic procrastinators are men) and the young are more like to procrastinate than the old, Steel said. Three out of four college students consider themselves procrastinators.

Early studies looking at U.S. and Canadian cultures didn’t find any differences in the two countries’ procrastination problem, but Steel said when he has more time he’ll get around to more cross-cultural studies.

The causes of procrastination combine temptation, sense of immediacy, the value of doing the job, and whether you believe you can get the work done, Steel found. He even created a complicated mathematical formula, complete with Greek letters, to figure out when a person is likely to procrastinate.

Temptation is the biggest factor. And it’s why procrastination is getting worse, Steel said, citing technology.

“It’s easier to procrastinate now than ever before. We have so many more temptations,” he said. “It’s never been harder to be self-disciplined in all of history than it is now.”

But procrastination goes back thousands of years, before technology. Ancient literature harps on the problem, Steel said. Knaus mentioned a book from 1852: Thoughtless Little Fanny: The Unhappy Results of Procrastination. The author is just called “a friend of children.”

While many self-help books say perfectionists procrastinate because they don’t want to get things wrong, Steel found just the opposite. Perfectionists procrastinate less and do better because they avoid delaying. However they do worry more about putting stuff off, he said.

Studying procrastination as a field has a benefit, said the professor. The more he knows about the problem and the causes, the less he procrastinates – even though he sheepishly acknowledges his study was completed five years late.

The good thing about studying procrastination, he said: “If you take a day off from it, you can always say it’s field research.”

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