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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He left no trace of himself in his books. No notes scribbled between the lines; no passages underlined, not even a name on the first page. &#8212; Look closer though, and you might see a face form in the mist: a smoothed out crease on page seventy four and the stain in chapter three that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=66&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Middle Class Neighbourhood(edited)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[old people fill up the park every evening cotton pajamas shuffling along paved paths, brushing against trimmed hedges and clipped grass once in a while they greet each other a bit like prisoners allowed outside for some sunshine and exercise some of them sit on benches in clumps of three or four the men and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=64&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am convinced it is a primal instinct to drink till you don’t have a single penny left. &#160; And then some. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=63&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But the avoidance of self-contradiction makes great demands upon us; Hegel and Bradley imagined that we could know the nature of the universe by means of this principle alone. In this they were pretty certainly mistaken, but nevertheless a great deal of our &#8216;knowledge&#8217; depends upon this principle to a greater or lesser extent.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- An Outline of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell also The subtlety with which connoisseurs can distinguish among wines and cigars is the despair of youths who wish to become men of the world. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=62&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Title? Hah. Title.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it is not in fire it is not in water it is not in faceless rocks it is not in the folded palms and shaven heads of holy pilgrims not in the drop of honey that dangles over a saint&#8217;s painted forehead not in the rotting flesh of yesterday&#8217;s dead it is not in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=61&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know anything like time-beats and metre nor the arithmetic of strings and drums; I don’t know the count of iamb and dactyl. My lord of the meeting rivers, as nothing will hurt you I’ll sing as I love. - Basavanna vacana 494 from Speaking of Siva translated and compiled by A. K. Ramanujan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=60&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons To Like The Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Girls in skirts. And summer dresses. Oh summer dresses. More daylight Lychees Watermelons Mangoes Masala Coke Swimming Coke Studio Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=59&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Checklist For Becoming A Real Gentleman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[x] Tweed coat [&#160; ] Pork-pie hat [&#160; ] Cane (with a sword inside) [x] Cigarette case [&#160; ] Metal lighter [x] Bigotry [&#160; ] Pipe {Should have one in a few months} [x] A knowledge of esoteric and fatuous things such as the difference between a Mughal and a Timurid Turk [&#160; ] Opium [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=56&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week #1 in the Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plates will accumulate stains in insidious ways; you’ll find them in the least expected places. The newspaper is your saviour. The Times of India works particularly well – there is less guilt when you use it for purposes other than reading. Jat boys spend their day shirtless and in boxer shorts. They spend their evenings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=55&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Gone Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can explain. Bureaucracy. The goal of every bureaucrat is to do exactly what his superior has told him to. Exactly just that. The goal of every bureaucrat is to make sure that it’s not his fault. On a completely unrelated note – Gotta love David Mamet. &#160; What are you going to do about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barud45.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13164657&amp;post=54&amp;subd=barud45&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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