Pornographic magazine for the blind launched

The book is designed to be 'enjoyed' by the blind and visually impaired - and is on sale for £150.

Among the 17 raised images include a naked woman in a 'disco pose', a woman with 'perfect breasts' and a 'male love robot'.

Canadian Lisa Murphy says that she made the book to fill a gap in the market, adding: "There are no books of tactile pictures of nudes for adults.

"We're breaking new ground. Playboy has an edition with Braille wording, but there are no pictures."

She said that she made the book after realising that the 'blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images'.

Between 1970 and 1985 Playboy printed copies of its famous magazine in braille - but without raised pictures.

The Last House On The Left

Yesterday I had the misfortune to watch this movie with my siblings. The history is a bit funny. A friend of my sister recommended this movie calling it horror. I suppose the violence was too much & can be described as horrifying, which is why this movie can be called horror. Well there is no element of a genuine horror movie in it though. Anyway, the story line was okay. If you have nothing else to do & you don’t have any other DVD, then you can watch it.

My brother also pointed out that it was not the last house on the left; it was the only house. Anyway, Tony Goldwyn has been a cool dad in this movie. There’s one good thing about this film. You know nothing is useless. It forces us to ask this question: if bad people hurt your loved ones, what would you do? To what extent can you go to avenge your loved ones?

In the movie, both the parents kill those 3 people & I guess it was the right thing. We all have heard that an eye for an eye would make the world go blind. Although we are not purblind as yet, but people are stumbling every where! And in almost every corner, someone is ever ready to lecture you. Revenge has always been taken as a negative thing. In Utopia, anyone can afford to be civilized. We live in the real world where ugliness can be seen almost everywhere. Revenge may not seem to be the right option, but when someone rapes your daughter, what step would you take? Would you let the bastards get away with it? Can you forgive such people? We all know the answer; it’s another thing many would prefer to stay quiet about it or pretend to be civilized.

Somethings Are The Way They Are...

Somethings are the way they are and words just can't explain. No matter how hard you try to make everyone understand, no matter how you make the picture clear...but when the person sitting in front of you doesn't want to see the real picture, not much can be done. It's better to let things be the way they are. There is no point banging your head against a wall.

What's interesting is how everyone is wearing the goggles and following each other blindly going to some Practical Valley of success through the roads of lies, games, hypocrisy and fake talk. And those who defy the norms are the mad ones. The blind followers ensure the madness doesn't spread any further. The fear of this lonesome madness is far greater than the fear of the blindness leading them to a shit hole. Or they feel at least they are together.

I just realized when I decided to leave my job how a lot of people indirectly told me what a loser I am. They told me how unhappy I will be. That I have left the best option and growth. I don't know how people can pass their judgement and predict the future without knowing why a decision was made in the first place. But because these people don't mean anything to me I didn't spend a lot of time explaining to them about my reasons.

It wasn't that easy for me either to take the step...I linger on to stuff for long. But then when I felt I wasn't happy I just took the step. Everyone can't take such steps but I was at a point when I felt peace of mind is more important than growth and success. If you don't bring the change then you're stuck and when you're stuck you're not growing from any angle. And what is life without any change. We have to take the risk. You can't play it safe all the time. And then when you are not wearing the goggles and following everyone blindly - perhaps you are the one to take such a step anyway which everyone disapproves of. Nevertheless, since it's your life you gotta make it or break it your way.

And then another thing is that I just feel when you are better than the rest you gotta be told this. But when you see the worshippers of fake shit are getting it all by doing nothing but by virtually blabbing stuff, it makes no sense to me. There should be a difference between work and shit! There should be a difference between being focused and playing games! The right things need to be told to the right people at the right time.

But since certain things are not in your control you gotta let them be. And since we are and should be in absolute control of our life...it's better to do what you think is right with your life and forget what everyone else thinks.

- Zaira Rahman

Rock of Agony

“To the pure, all things are pure; not only meats & drinks, but all kind of knowledge whether of good or evil; the knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will & conscience be not defiled.”

Dionysius was an extremely respected Bishop of Alexandria. He used to read the books written by heretics in order to refute their arguments. One of the priests told him that it was a wrong approach. Naturally he was perplexed but then a vision from God told him to read all those books, because he had reason & judgment to choose.

“The Lord will know what to forbid & what to allow without your help.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Knowledge is always good whether it pertains to good or evil. If the mind & the will are not already corrupted, books & the knowledge derived from them cannot corrupt them.”

John Milton

We have often come across people who presume everything & they also think they are always right. On top of it, they have the audacity to impose their silly opinions on others. George Feydeau rightly describes them for us:

“Some people are born pests. You can never get rid of them.”

And more importantly, “One doesn’t write for slaves.” Jean-Paul Sartre

Anyway, the thing is…people are entitled to have any kind of views whether others approve of them or not. When they go around forcing opinions & what they think is right on others, the situation becomes all the more ugly. Everyone should know their limits, that is, they have no right to go around bullying others.

Lately we have come across aliens who themselves don’t do any research, but drag in Dr. Zakir. Dr. Zakir is a scholar & knowledgeable person no doubt & he has worked very hard, but to presume that he has all the answers is wrong. He’s not a prophet. I’m sorry to say but being a Muslim, it’s a sin to raise someone to that level. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but no, they create hurdles in other people’s path & ask them to follow the same thing blindly. What losers! Just by denying a problem, they think it would disappear. The Holy Quran is the primary source & it is incumbent on every Muslim to go through the translations & interpretations.

Again it is explicitly mentioned in the Holy Quran says:

“Clear proofs have come to you from your Lord. Whoso sees clearly, it is to his own gain, & whoso is blind, it is to his own loss.”

“The Lord knows very well who goes astray from His path; He knows very well the right-guided.”

The Holy Quran

It has been so that people with vision are invariably rare & those who can understand them are even rarer. However, there are always people out there who just hate & they can’t help hating & fueling their hate. You can’t pour sense into their senseless heads & we don’t have to either. They are so, as God intends them to be. This is just not our headache.

“Good & evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably, & the knowledge of good is so involved & interwoven with the knowledge of evil & in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out & sort asunder, were not more intermixed.”

John Milton

Nadira Rahman