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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 18:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to become visible.&#8221; ~Vladimir Nabakov My dear readers, we have been together these past years. I have known the unwavering love of some of you who have stood by me through the thick [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2732&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concluding part of &#8216;Tell Me, Cleopatra!&#8216; As I stood stiff under a jet stream of water, the set of four faces kept throbbing in my head, they all saying something to my eyes squeezed shut. Hemant, Robin, Sonia, Ruby and a stab in my heart. I lathered myself like a soiled bedspread and let [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2644&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.&#8217; ~ A Study in Scarlet Read the preceding part &#8216;The Man from Baker Street&#8216; here. The story begins here in &#8216;Tell Me, Cleopatra!&#8216; ‘Yes, I am mad about books. And for a bookworm like me, it is sacrilege not to have heard [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2596&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 03:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The story begins in &#8216;Tell me, Cleopatra!&#8217; Read it here. ) I was about to begin hating ‘dodger blue’ cars for years to come but I didn’t know it then. It was morning still and we were swarming the porches of Tagore Block. The air was crisp, tinged with smoke from the bonfires of fallen [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2565&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was not a friend, nor a classmate, nor a social sibling –the veil under which some people fraternised in the college. We were graduating in the same year and we both had English Literature and she was in the other section further down the hallway. Although the timings for the classes were the same [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2550&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Song of Jar Jar Binks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 16:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>umashankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can smell the diction Taliban just beyond my window. I can hear the rat-a-tat of their words, its robotic monotony, flapping like dodo. Peeking out the pane, I see skyscrapers raised on cacophony of flakes and wafers; buzz and fuzz of tones, grating of sandpapers. Melody died, fell afoul of the tone deaf tribe, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2527&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a sultry summer morning when I first met Sam twenty five years ago. My roommate was groveling for an omelet, sprawled in his bed. He had been missing his turn at cooking breakfast for the fourth day in a row. ‘I swear I’ll take over tomorrow.’ I hate the promise of tomorrows. Ask [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2488&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill a Dying Monk -II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concluding part of the Dying Monk series. Read the first part here. Murali recovered his canvas shoes from a hollow in the trunk and slipped to the ground on his toes. Moving quickly, he broke into a half-crouching run through the mustard fields till he reached the abandoned tube-well shed. Looking up at the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2450&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Murali lay still on a festoon of boughs of the twin mango trees at the edge of the orchard. The pair of owls that had tried their best to scare him off with a medley of boos had fallen silent. A half moon hung in the midnight sky shedding a faint light on the somnolent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2424&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was young when my family pulled out of a city to the backwaters of the country. Of the many heartbreaks I weathered, the loss of my small book club was the most debilitating. The civilisation I was uprooted from seemed oceans away. Children of the jungle had heard neither of Enid nor Blyton; Tintin [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uspandey.com&#038;blog=1775272&#038;post=2407&#038;subd=uspandey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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