Monika’s Pensieve

{FILM DIARY}
Kabul Express (India, 2006)
Seen: Tuesday, 2nd December 2008 (DVD)
Runtime: 106′
Polish Distributor: None yet (AFAIK)
Director: Kabir Khan
Cast: John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Hanif Hum Ghum, Linda Arsenio
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: Two Indian journalists and an American one are looking for news stories in Afghanistan. They have an Afghan guide and are sort of [...]

I’m behind with my “film diary” as usual :] My last weekend was very intense due to the Polish National Championships in Figure Skating about which I’ll hopefully write more later *grin*
So anyway - all the films in this post were viewed on the 22nd of November. I hope I remember them well enough to [...]

{BOOK DIARY}
Islam (Teach Yourself Series)
by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Language: English
What It’s About
It’s an introduction to Islam.
My Impressions
It took me a while to get through this… Or rather it was going very well and then for some reason I lost interest half-way and read the other half a few months later (actually I do that a [...]

I’m following up my previous posts. I came across another article on the problem and found it very comprehensive.

Obama’s victory has brought a lot of reactions from all over the world, but so far there’s only been one that’s grabbed my attention. I somehow didn’t expect the Taleban were organized enough to have a spokesman or that they would feel the need to give any official comment on the matter, but apparently they [...]

Afghanistan is the biggest opium producer in the world. It is estimated that in 2007 93% of the drugs made from opium and its derivatives on the world market came from Afghanistan. Apparently there is more land in Afghanistan used for opium production than there is land used for cocaine production in Latin America…
For the [...]

A rather interesting article I think.