A lovely resource i've found via Leighton Cooke – From Old Books : here you can find scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books.
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Honestly Sonia, how many blogs have you got! If I am not wrong this is the fourth blog by you.
Writing so many blogs must be keeping you very busy.
🙂 ah mon ami yes i am very busy taking over the world of blogging. you must be very busy too – i saw your “article” in that rajamagazine thingy. !
Oh did you see those articles and stories I wrote for raja magazine. It is a new business that I have got associated with. We plan to turn into a sort of Playboy magazine that will cater to the Indian, Pakis, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, the whole South Asian populace based in Western countries.
This may sound crazy to you, but all big enterprises have a crazy begining. And I think the Raja idea might work, but it needs funding. Right now we don’t have money, we are just using our limited funds to put this idea on the web.
I think the South Indians in Western Countries are reeling under a wave of silly religious fundamentalism. And that is what I seek to counter. I want to tell these silly little brown freaks that they don’t have to be muddled under obsolete cultural ideas. They need to open up to the Western culture. There is nothing wrong with gambling, or the content in magazines like playboy. It is time Indians had their own playboy. I plan to start it.
I have written this email very fast, so I dont know if I have expressed myself as I wanted to. But do let me know your views on the subject – should there be a playboy targetted exclusively to the South Indians in UK or not?
oh IC im sure your project will be successful. limited funds not to worry – im sure you’ll be raking in the money, as we all know sex sells – that’s pretty universal. i’m not sure why you think i would think it was crazy – look how successful the Sun is here! frankly i don’t think it will make a difference whether your target audience is in the West or not – or whether it’s exclusively for ‘South Asians’ – i think you’ll find out it’s not! after all – appreciation of pretty indian looking women is hardly restricted to Indian men – isn’t it. don’t Playboy have editions for ‘oriental exotic women’ or some such thing. in any case you’re clearly going to make lots of money…
p.s. don’t be confused by the ‘religious fundamentalism’ thing – just a cover – those folks are often the ones found engaging in ‘perverse’ activity ( well perverse by their own standards)
Sonia, this is the first time that you have said something sensible in your replies to my comments. Please accept my congratulations.
I am sure too that my magazine project will do pretty fine. I am looking for venture capitalists these days. Once the magazine gets going then I am planning to start a series of high profile clubs in India. The normal Donald Trump thing! There will be world class casino, good dances, discos, ample opportunites to booze and smoke quality cuban cigars, highly luxurious hotel rooms with all the modern amenities that one may expect.
The essence is that I plan to become the Hugh Hefner and Donald Trump rolled into one of India.
wow IC this is the first time you’ve said i’ve said something sensible instead of just referring to me as ‘Comrade Sonia’ – congratulations accepted and i am most amused. Good luck with your venture as I said im sure you’ll be successful humans being what they are 🙂 Keep me posted of your movements!
OK, I will keep you posted of my movements.
I have to warn you though, that henceforth the movements are going to be real fast, so even if you or anyone of South Asian brethren pause to blink an eye then they are going to miss something.
And I am not starting this great multinational corporation only for money, there is a social cause involved. I want to teach these brown skinned pygmies from south India that there is a better way to live, they don’t have to keep making fools of themselves by losing their soul and mind to the Global Warming gang, Communist freaks, or Religious fundamentalist monstrosities.
Morality is only possible to human being when he has quality and art in his life. That is what my project is all about – great quality of life and great aristry of life.
ah well roll on then great artistry. hopefully you will be sending some of the converted masses this way! actually IC i was thinking of writing a post on this rajamag venture of yours on my other blog – sonia’s diary over at Pickled Politics – something along the lines of Asian Media outlets etc. – what do you think? i would need a bit of information from you.
{p.s have you been watching the PP threads? i was thinking it might be amusing if you came along 😉 the more heated the debate the merrier ..heh he}
You send me an email with a list of all the informations that you need. Who knows you may find me in one of my better moods, and I may even condescend to divulge secret data and information on myself.
But you have so many diffrent blogs that it is difficult to keep track of what you write.