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		<title>Book review: Challenging martial histories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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Flight of the Falcon: Story of a Fighter Pilot,
by S. Sajad Haider.
Published by Vanguard Books,
45 The Mall, Lahore &#38; Lok Virsa Building, Jinnah Supermarket, Islamabad 



 
 


 



 

Nur Khan, Asghar Khan and Abbas Khattak at the launch in Islamabad 



 
 


 



 

Haider signing his book
at the launch 



 
 


 



 

Sajad Haider with his squadron of Pathankot fame 



 
 


 



 

Sajad Haider with his [...]

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		<title>Sacred Kerala&#8211;Transcending Communal Boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/29/sacred-kerala-transcending-communal-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review
 
Name of the Book: Sacred Kerala—A Spiritual Journey
Author: Dominique-Sila Khan
Publisher: Penguin, New Delhi, 2009
Reviewed by: Yoginder Sikand
 
The southern Indian state of Kerala has a unique population mix. A little less than half of Kerala’s inhabitants are Hindus, who belong to various castes. The rest are Muslims and Christians, in roughly equal number, and a miniscule [...]

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		<title>Pakistani state: reform or perish</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/28/pakistani-state-reform-or-perish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My op-ed for The NEWS
Raza Rumi
On the face of it, the Pakistani state with the clear endorsement of political parties and the majority of its citizenry is fighting a battle against militant Islamism. However, it is not as simple a formulation as it appears to be. The state is also cracking under extreme pressure for [...]

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		<title>&#8220;The Blocked Road&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/27/the-blocked-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I knew what you wanted.
You block the road and won&#8217;t give me rest.
You pull my lead-rope one way, then the other.
You act cold, my darling!
Do you hear what I say?
Will this night of talking ever end?
Why am I still embarrassed and timid
about you? You are thousands.
You are one.
Quiet, but most articulate.
Your name is [...]

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		<title>KHUDKUSH BAMBAAR LARKAY SAY - a poem</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/22/khudkush-bambaar-larkay-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am posting a new poem of Neelam Ahmed Basheer that addresses a young suicide bomber and raises some pertinet questions concerning humanity and life.
I am grateful to Ms Basheer for her contributions to my website. In fact, meeting Neelam Bashir in the recent months has been a remarkable experience. She is an extraordinary writer and [...]

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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s martial state is a self-perpetuating reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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The Taliban phenomenon was erroneously, and rather dangerously, projected as a herald of a new dawn
The Pakistani state policy of nurturing jihad factories over the decades is staring back at its architects, supporters and sponsors. Zafar Hilaly, a close aide of the late Benazir Bhutto, recently divulged in his memoirs that BB had confessed how [...]

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		<title>Urs celebrations at Ajmer</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/20/devotees-rejoice-as-the-urs-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AJMER: The 797th Urs of the 12th century Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, commenced on Friday with the flag-hosting ceremony at the Buland Darwaza.
About 200 people from the Gori family of Bhilwara, headed by Fakrudin Gori, came to Ajmer. As per age-old traditions, the family is authorized to hoist the Urs flag.

The dargah road was [...]

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		<title>Literature in the time of terror</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/19/literature-in-the-time-of-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My piece that appeared in The Friday Times (May 29-4 June, 2009 issue). I have argued that the silence of Pakistani writers on terrorism and extremism is finally breaking  



 



 



 

‘Fallen Indus’, a painting by the author



 



 

‘Ignorance Is Bliss’, a miniature by Saira Wasim



 




Since the invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and the global hysteria about [...]

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		<title>This is a long war</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/18/this-is-a-long-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Published in The NEWS
By Raza Rumi
This is a critical moment in our history perhaps unmatched for its severity and its brutal reality. The experiential nightmare that our country is passing through is perhaps unparalleled for the enemy is neither foreign nor fully identifiable. At the same time, never has there been a clear backing of [...]

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		<title>Spinning with your love</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2009/06/15/spinning-with-your-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am filled with splendor,
spinning with your love.
It looks like I&#8217;m spinning around you,
but no – I&#8217;m spinning around myself!
Rumi&#8217;s Quatrain 1118
&#8211; Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992


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