I continue to be smitten

I continue to be absurdly smitten by Shahrukh Khan.

In addition to being elegant, charming, witty and gorgeous, he is also irresistibly arrogant and has a nose to die for. Plus, how fabulous can you get?

On being asked how he manages being a Muslim while being married to a Hindu woman and how that affects bringing up their children, he said: "We just confuse the shit out of them." And smiled that resistance-is-futile boyish smile. Then he added, when they get asked what they are at school, Hindu or Muslim, he's been telling them just to confuse people further by replying, "Christian". And then said something how they will grow up to be tolerant of all religions.

Take that, people who insist on everyone being locked into a 'community'. Those children are neither part of the 'Muslim' nor the 'Hindu' community but part of the community of humans. As are we all.

Okay, perhaps you can tell I have been reading Amartya Sen on the loo, and that I'm drawn to Enlightenment ideas of human rights more than to 20th-C. identity politics. *grins*

Dorli thanks to Msilverstar and helping Haiti

In other news: when I've not been obsessing about Shahrukh Khan, My Name is Khan and A.R. Rahman's music, I have been contemplating Dom/Orli fic!

I know. That thump you heard was me myself falling off my own chair in surprise. Blame msilverstar and zarah5, if you like. They practically commissioned me!

And it's not been easy. I've tortured my brain into reconnecting to this erstwhile OTP of mine and to that whole fandom. And while cruising image-google, I've had to get used to these guys' New Looks... To me, they are both still 23!! But one is now all orbital, and the other all scruffy, and how to get these twain to mate?

I tried one bunny and got bored after 2 pages. But then, thanks to A.R. Rahman's musical awesomeness, as linked by ileliberte, I have been bunnied yet again, and it's exciting!

But: *keeps lips zipped*

Also, MS, it may be longer than 13 Feb. Is that okay?