Owais Mughal
This notice board is from Food Street, Lahore. It reads:
“Entering the ‘Food Street’ wearing shorts is strictly prohibited: Food Street Administration”
Among other things on this notice board, I enjoyed reading the word sakht (strictly). As if the word forbidden didn’t sound serious enough, the administration had to add a prefix strictly forbidden to make sure people undrestand that administration means business here.
Credits: I found the above photo in rooq‘s collection at Flickr.com.
http://lahore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/07/at_lea st_neeker.phtml
Daktar, Did I mention any religion? Why are you trying to throw me in a den of volves?!!
Hijab is an Arabic word and it is observed differently in different societies. It is simply to be modest and no-provocative in front of a stranger. Every Arabic word used in the Holy Book does not become a property of Islam. Or does it?
In India, many Hindu women pull the end of the sari in front to hide the face from an stranger. Is this not also a Hijab? Why only Islam should have the monopoly on all GOOD things?!!!
Well Food St. is not exactly a hoity toity place to impose such a restriction. How about if someone who is not aware of this rule goes there wearing shorts, would the “management” loan them a pair of pants/shalwar so that they can have dinner, just like some places where jackets are a must and if you are not wearing one they let you wear one of theirs.
I think they should say what they want people to wear. Technically, anyone who is not wearing anything is not wearing shorts. :)
request to ATP: Please dont use provocative pics on the title page, like gulab jaamuns. where i am living, its really a battle to get them and i always start feeling hungry when i see them…