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		<title>Christmas Eve, Sana&#8217;a</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/09/09/258/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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From Kalashnikovs and Christmas in Yemen.
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<div id="_mcePaste">From Kalashnikovs and Christmas in <a href="http://pinaki.info/yemen.htm">Yemen</a>.</div>
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		<title>The Book of Disquiet</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/09/06/1959/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Portugal and The Book of Disquiet, up here now.
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		<title>Afternoon, Alentejo</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/09/06/2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Portugal, coming soon.
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		<title>Campo Maior</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/09/02/1869/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pinaki</dc:creator>
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Portugal
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		<title>4.47pm, Alentejo</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/08/30/2021/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Portugal
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		<title>9.39pm</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/08/29/1391/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Lisboa
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		<title>Capela dos Ossos</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/08/28/2856/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Campo Maior, Portugal
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		<title>Noon, Alentejo</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/08/26/2262/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pinaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does my wall think about my shadow?
Sometimes I wonder about this until I realise
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">What does my wall think about my shadow?</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Sometimes I wonder about this until I realise</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">I&#8217;m wondering about things&#8230;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">And then I feel annoyed and out of sorts with myself,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">As if I&#8217;d realised my foot was asleep&#8230;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">– Pessoa</div>
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		<title>Munkabong</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/08/07/4440/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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“My son made a cry like a monkey when he was born, mad and deaf,” he says, pointing to the now grown-up man sleeping on &#8230;]]></description>
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<p>“My son made a cry like a monkey when he was born, mad and deaf,” he says, pointing to the now grown-up man sleeping on the floor near the back door&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://pinaki.info/ml_mad.htm">Conversations about Madness</a></p>
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		<title>9.20pm, Jaalan</title>
		<link>http://pinaki.info/blog/2010/08/06/9492/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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And Rashid was always getting lost. He was three years old and the family had been stuffed in the back of the pickup, and there &#8230;]]></description>
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<p>And Rashid was always getting lost. He was three years old and the family had been stuffed in the back of the pickup, and there was such a jumble of wives and hands and children that no one noticed the little boy left behind, holding two ice cream cones in the souq. So he had set off, walking, in the general direction of pickup dust, sticking the cones into his dishdasha pockets for some reason, and holding his slippers in his hands. He’d been found by another Bedouin, tears streaming down his dusty face, ice cream streaming down his pockets.</p>
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