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		<title>what makes a human</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/what-makes-a-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a human life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all in between]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[days and nights seem too arbitrary to separate. after all, one is just the other side of the coin. i have bled for a few days now. and i have come close to losing my life. and i cannot say that i feel more alive than i ever have. my near-death experience was not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=515&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a dedication</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/a-dedication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[attempts.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[to all those i haven&#8217;t written to in a long, long time: there comes a time in every person&#8217;s life when it seems like there is nothing left to say. everything feels tired and old, rehashed, redone, painted over and presented as new. every thought it seems has occurred before. every idea it seems has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=415&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>These past few &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/these-past-few/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[al-tabrizi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annemarie schimmel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apophasis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aporia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divan-e]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[form and content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[franklin lewis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[layla and majnun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masnavi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mowlana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nizami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sufi poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These past few weeks (months) have been spent trying frantically to manage all my school work in my last year at college. I was in a class on Muslim Literature, Art and Film. Didn&#8217;t like the class so much but I did end up doing a project on Rumi, which has been very entertaining and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=365&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running the Loping</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/running-the-loping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[arti ra upadesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirations and aspirations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill callahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joanna newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lyrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MUSIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[only skin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running the loping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These past few weeks (months even) have been marked by a slow lethargy, a casual disinterest in everything. It starts slowly, like most things, and you hardly notice it. It happens in isolated pockets of time, separated by periods of intense activity, at first. Then, it grows like a black hole, swallowing all that it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=319&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>out the past, kicking and screaming</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/out-the-past-kicking-and-screaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[attempts.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurons firing.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afterglow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[la isla bonita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madonna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pranaya rana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are two somethings from a long, long time back. There was once a time when I was in love and then when I wasn&#8217;t in love and then I was in love again. Flowers Flower I gave and flowers you gave I placed them in a shoebox, you in between a book Bells rang, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=317&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the belly of the beast</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/in-the-belly-of-the-beast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hegemony or survival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurons firing.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baburam bhattarai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maoist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEPAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pranaya rana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what is the relevance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(A shorter version of this article appeared in Republica daily on October 12 2011:  http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&#38;news_id=37041) In the belly of the beast Marxism and Baburam Bhattarai in New York City PRANAYA SJB RANA “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” - Marx, Theses on Feuerbach NEW YORK [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=314&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/red/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[attempts.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurons firing.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kathmandu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEPAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pranaya rana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sam kang li]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So sometime back, when I was in Kathmandu, ECS LIVING asked me to do a creative piece around the colour/word RED and its connotations, whatever they may be. They said I was going to be part of a group of young artists working in various different media who would also mediate on the same word. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=311&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>afterwards</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/afterwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[attempts.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurons firing.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afterwards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[afterwards on your palms and soles of feet on your back and white of thighs in your hair and down your spine i carve with my tongue: there will be no regrets today. with one smooth motion, we are children no more. with one painful tear, we are innocent no more. on your breath and across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=308&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism by other name</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/terrorism-by-other-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[attempts.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(originally published in The Kathmandu Post, July 28 2011: http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2011/07/28/oped/terrorism-by-other-name/224547.html) Media speculation was rife immediately after the twin terrorist attacks on Oslo. Experts weighed in and fingers were immediately pointed at radical Islam. Before all the facts has even been ascertained, the western media was overrun with reports of non-existent Islamic groups ‘claiming’ responsibility and terrorism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=306&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fragments from a Sick Bed</title>
		<link>http://thinkinink.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/fragments-from-a-sick-bed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranaya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[attempts.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[typhoid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My body sweats, my joints moan with every movement, my throat aches for water and my eyes long for that sweet, all-enveloping darkness of sleep. But sleep doesn’t come. It is 3AM in the morning and I twist and turn, my eyes closed, trying not to think.  I try counting sheep, counting numbers, counting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkinink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6243421&amp;post=304&amp;subd=thinkinink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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