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		<title>Flâneuring around Calcutta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent visit to Calcutta, I learned a new word to describe what I sometimes engage in: flânerie.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I heard it at the Oxford Bookstore where they launched Memory&#8217;s Gold, a new anthology on Calcutta. Amit Chaudhuri, the editor, highlighted a section of the book titled &#8216;Flânerie&#8217;. It includes pieces on adda and the cityscape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking backwards: 1947 and after</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the white crescent on green flag was hoisted in Dhaka, as the Raj took leave, I was yet to be born. The only family story I have heard of that day is that my Dada &#8212; really my Nana, my mother&#39;s father &#8212; lit a cigarette. He was not a smoker.
&#160;&#160; &#160;Lighting a cigarette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Octavia Butler, 1947-2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget inspiration, forget talent, don&#8217;t worry about imagination: her advice for a new fiction writer was simple.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#34;Persist,&#34; she said.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Around the time I discovered Octavia Butler&#8217;s writing advice, I was still new to writing fiction. I was anxious about both inspiration and talent. I worried about imagination, since in my rather complicated life I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While speaking to a few dozen friends recently, I tried out a&#160;confession. &#160;I said that I was not really who I claimed to be; I was not as old as they knew me and that I had stolen the identity of someone older, someone who had gone through a much richer vein of experiences than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mythical place called Bangla Motors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you go to Dhaka, Bangladesh, you may come across a place called &#34;Bangla Motors.&#34; Buses stop there, and rickshaws, CNG&#8217;s, and taxis can get you there. It stands at the intersection of Mymensingh and Moghbazaar roads, roughly halfway between the Shonargaon and Sheraton hotels. Do not, however, look for a business by the name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing in a &#8216;foreign&#8217; tongue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laila Lalami was in San Francisco last week to promote her novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. She, of moorishgirl.com fame, was born in Morocco and came to the U.S. for grad school. In the Q&#38;A, an Indian man questioned her on her choice of writing in English. He said he was grappling with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters in the age of e-mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter this weekend, the old-fashioned way.&#160; Pen to paper.&#160; I even dragged out an old box of&#160; parchment paper that had been gathering dust.&#160; The act was not spontaneous: the letter was requested by a friend who&#8217;s at a writing retreat for two months. &#160;&#160; &#160;It felt good.&#160; I wrote five pages, [...]]]></description>
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