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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>Brushes with Faith, Sin, and the Weird</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in my car, driving. The cell phone pressed against my ear, I&#8217;m listening to a funny story about Muslim speed dating in Houston. The next minute, my eyes take over. Just ahead, to my right, is the tallest cross I&#8217;ve ever seen, its metal body gleaming in the morning sun. A few dozen people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A stormy greeting in Dhaka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The morning I flew into Dhaka after a 10-hour flight from London, rain drenched me as I dragged my bags outside the airport gates. Within hours, the rain would burst into a three-day storm, with wind howling through tree branches and sheets of water that I thought would never end. Though it would shut me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two cities: New Orleans &amp; Detroit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two cities, separated by 21 hours of driving and stops in Atlanta and Cincinnati. What comes to your mind when you think of New Orleans? Perhaps jazz and jambalaya. What could you remember of Detroit? Cars and the rhythms of Motown, maybe? Two majority black, chocolate cities. One&#39;s a place tourists used to flock to, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada, the Atlantic coast and looping back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great North American road trip is officially over. I started in San Francisco on August 1 and finished in Cincinnati on September 7: thirty-eight days and 7132 miles, passing through some 20 American states and one Canadian province. Someone back in Oakland, listening to me describe my planned stops, had said, oh you&#39;re doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Gulf to the Canadian border</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve crossed the continent. I went down to the Gulfcoast and drove through the South, into the Midwest, into Canada, and then across the Adirondacks to New England. Right now, I&#39;m resting in Natick, Mass. I&#39;ve been working on a post about my visit to New Orleans, but until it&#39;s done, here are some more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down to the flatlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s photos from the trip, driving from Green River, Utah through Oklahoma south towards Texas. I went above 10,000 feet in Colorado down to the flat flat lands of eastern Colorado and Kansas.

Just east of Green River, Utah, I passed by these majestic cliffs that looked like heavily-fortified castles.


I saw landscape marked by greenery again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God has billboards in Oklahoma!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I drove south through Oklahoma City, I saw the billboard again. On a stark black background, the message in white letters said &#34;I love you&#34; in English, Spanish, and Chinese. It was signed &#34;God.&#34;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Last month when I&#39;d also been passing through here during a family reunion, I&#39;d seen the same billboard. And another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs in the mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kept seeing the signs. On Overland Avenue in L.A. near where I stopped to visit my sister and nephew, as I walked each morning towards Venice Boulevard to get my morning coffee, I passed three small houses with signs. Psychic. Readings by Maria. Palm readings. Tarot cards. During earlier visits, I&#39;d passed by those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving through Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drove today from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Green River, Utah. In Utah, especially on I-70 headed eastward towards Colorado, you see some of the most spectacular vistas: mountains in formations that look like human-built monoliths, ranges that change color from shades of red to gray and black, twisted trees, and rock arrangements that look [...]]]></description>
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