Comments on: Finding a long lost friend

By: Mayank Austen Soofi

Mayank Austen Soofi — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:50:36 +0000

a good friend is a rare possession. we should always be considerate towards their sentiments. but few acts of foolishness and we can lost that friendship. for ever. this piece, on re-readings, is growing on me.

By: billo

billo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:19:32 +0000

Er..as KM I have to respond here. Most of the “intelligent stuff” is really just listening to Raza (though he’s too modest to say so). Still, your generosity of spirit astounds me..perhaps you are a sufi after all! Even if you’re not, you should turn your hand to writing fiction

Hmm. Unbearable lightness of Being. Even then you were into profound things (I think I was more interested in the nudity to be honest!)

i can’t imagine what demons you’re talking off ..unless it’s Piracha!

But yes, it was great meeting up with you again Raza. Next time I hope you stay for coffee and we can trash those curs-ed maulvis!

Okay, stop acting like a younger brother and embarrassing me with such photos!
(I notice you didn’t include yourself…I’ll get you back for that!)

Keep well kaka,

By: IMeMy

IMeMy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:05:37 +0000

I composed this a few years ago but its sentiment echoes your post:

Finding Me

Fearful and feared
forward I fared.
Amid amicable acquaintances
felt fashionably friendless.

and then…
a hug, a joyful cry
and tears that were endless

The mega miles of distance
had long lost their credence;
My friend had I found…
or perhaps he did find me!

By: Planet Apex

Planet Apex — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:50:50 +0000

It’s very nice meeting old friends. Subhanallah, it’s amazing how soon we part with our closes friends and not meat them once we leave school or town.

happy Muharam to you and salams from Sri Lanka

By: Sidhusaaheb

Sidhusaaheb — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:15:14 +0000

P.S. – Visiting friends and long conversations still are an important and exciting part of life, but one that people seem to indulge in far less frequently than they used to.

By: Sidhusaaheb

Sidhusaaheb — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:04:21 +0000

I remember quite clearly that cable television came on the scene while I was high school and I got acquainted with the internet only while I was pursuing my post-grad degree.

Before that, as you’ve described, visiting friends and long conversations comprised a really important and exciting part of life.

I hope you and your friend will always be in touch now, thanks to the internet!

By: Astarte

Astarte — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:32:11 +0000

So it was not at the Pak Tea House . Now if there was a list of Astarte’s blunders … But when everything is said and done, b’s (KM’s) blog is the best, it has a unique home-like and a … I don’t know … may be a solitary feeling. You can’t help but wait for the new post.

Best of Luck, b.
Astarte.

By: Aasem Bakhshi

Aasem Bakhshi — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:56:39 +0000

How many of us didn’t like black comedies at some point of time in our lives? Sometimes I wonder at the process of aging and how all of us do get used to it as we reach close to the end of the tunnel with each passing moment. Things so close to our hearts in a distant past seem so ‘unlike us’ in the present moment.