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January. 1946
FILMINDIA
Ashok Kumar becomes 'Kisan' in "Shikari", a sensational picture of Filmistan Ltd.
rather difficult to achieve happiness dragging along the fetters of conventional life. Seeing that you like ladies, men miss the chance to work as your secretary ?
Why do you bother about men ? I have half-adozen girls working in my office. I don't mind one more provided you are serious about work.
KISHIN G. MEHTA (Karachi)
What do you prefer: old oriental civilization or modern one ?
Civilization is a fallacious term. Since its birth, man has never been civilized. Since the beginning of Time, he has always been killing one thing or other to establish his own dominance. What vou glorify as o'd oriental civilization was also built on slaughter and bloodshed. As we look back today for rel:ef from the carnage around us, people of o'd must have similarly looked back to times earlier than their own. The Bhagvad Gita mentions the disgust of Arjun at the prospective slaughter of bis kinsmen. The civilization of the Mahabharatan period led to an alldestructive war, just as effectively as our present civi'ization is gradually leading us to a complete annihilation of the human race. There is too much of the brute in man to be completely civilised and with the brain given to him he becomes
more dangerous than the beasts of the forestRemember, civilization is a word glamourised by the sinful ambitions of men through different ages. : /
M. S. SRINIYASA MURTI (Bangalore)
At what age should the students begin to smoke ? There is no objection to smoking on moral grounds seeing that we do so many immoral things nowadays. But smoking is a bad habit physically and even in case of a strong man it helps only to give a hollow cough. I know it became I smoke fifty cigarettes a day. Students have no right to smoke, seeing that their fathers are paying for the packet of cigarettes. When they start earning on their own and they want to proc'aim their manhood with the smoke-signal coming out of the nose, especially with a belle within 100 yards, they may buy their first packet and perservere to secure that hollow cough in the end. No one objects to people burning their own money.
OM PARKASH WHIG (Sialkot)
If a journalist asked for advice on journalism, what would you tell him ?
To take up the profession of pick-pocketing which needs more skill and is better rewarded. Besides it is a more honest business, seeing that you rob
Paro dances gracefully in Filmistan's new picture, "Shikari" now at the Roxy Talkies.
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