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[quote][quote][quote].... Ismat Chughtai, a renowned writer of India, is on record saying "I feel insulted when some body calls me a sister". .[/quote]

i totally consent she would ve felt instulted.

will u plz explain for me the relevance of her being quoted here.[/quote]

I quoted Ismat hear, dear Raushan, because Nida had threatened to address me as ‘it’ (So kind of her; “woh hue hamkalaam, Allah, Allah” ) instead of sister/brother if I don’t divulge my sex.   I was, in fact, somewhat surprised and even tantalized on her insistence on knowing my sex like they enquire on marriage sites.  I am afraid Marwan may not become all the more jealous if I say I would welcome to be called any thing , even a ‘freak’ but not ‘brother/sister’ by Nida if it means we cannot become friends as answer to my lonliness is a companion like her.  Hence, the said quotation from Ismat .  She probably wanted to highlight the fact that the primary and basic human relationship is that complementary companionship as between Adam and eve, the result of the longings caused by the creative life-force called commonly as sex.   All other blood relations like brother sister are, so to say, merely a by-product of it.

Here I would like to quote a stanza from a Punjabi song by Shah Hussain which highlights the inadequacy even of real blood relations like that of mother to share with them the pangs of separation and lonliness:

“Kinoo’n mein dassaa’n dard wichhore da haal ni maa e”

(Oh mother, with whom I may share the pangs of separation)

On the other hand a Bollywood song says:

“Chandi jeisa rang he tera sone jeise baal
ek tu dhanwaan he gori baaqi sab kangaal”[/quote]

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