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		<title>Iqbal Bano sings Nizami Ganjavi (Persian Sufi poet, 1141-1209)</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/20/iqbal-bano-sings-nizami-ganjavi-persian-sufi-poet-1141-1209/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mara ba ghamza kusht o qaza ra bahana sakht]]></category>
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Mara ba ghamza kusht o qaza ra bahana sakht
Khud sooy e ma na deed o haya ra bahana sakht
Zahid na dasht tab e jamal e pari rukhan
Kunji girift o yad-e-khuda ra bahana sakht
Raftam ba masjidi ke babinam jamal-e dost
Dasti ba rukh kashid-o-dua ra bahana sakht
Daste ba dosh-e ghair nihade bar-e karam(Az-reh Karam))
Mara chun deed laghzish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The golden voice of Asha Bhosle (2008 concert in LA, USA)</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/20/the-golden-voice-of-asha-bhosle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR has featured Asha Bhosle (12,000 songs and the greatest of Bollywood divas) and her fabulous voice - this is what the text has to say (full article here and recording at Los Angeles on Ashaji's 75th birthday)
Asha sang naughty songs, and she had somewhat of a naughty personality, and she had a personal life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emperor Jahangir receiving his two sons, c1605-06</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/16/emperor-jahangir-receiving-his-two-sons-c1605-06/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Succession intrigues:Emperor Jahangir receiving his two sons; an album painting in gouache on paper, c1605-06.
Read the related story here: Power, then as now, brings its own price. Neither life nor death was kind to this unfortunate son of Jehangir. AROON RAMAN recounts one of the most tragic yet inspiring stories to come out of Mughal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am a child of love</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/15/i-am-a-child-of-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I profess the religion of love,
Love is my religion and my faith.
My mother is love
My father is love
My prophet is love
My God is love
I am a child of love
I have come only to speak of love
- Jalaluddin Rumi

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		<title>A red card for the Secular Indian Muslim</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/14/a-red-card-for-the-sim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am posting a brilliant piece (published by Indian Express) by my dear friend Rakhshanda Jalil - she is a bold yet sensitive writer based in Delhi. All power to her pen.



The controversy regarding the conferment of Qatari nationality upon M.F. Husain — and his acceptance of it — has given us the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abr mi barad-o man shovm-e az yar-e judaa (The cloud weeps&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/13/abr-mi-barad-o-man-shovm-e-az-yar-e-judaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amir Khusrau's lofty couplet
Abr mi barad-o man shovm-e az yar-e judaa
Choon kunam dil becheneen roz zedildar judaa.
Abr baraan wa man-o yar satadah ba-widaa
Man judaa girya kunaan, abr judaa, yaar judaa
The cloud weeps, and I become separated from my friend -
How can I separate my heart from my heart's friend on such a day.
The cloud weeping, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karachi Literary Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/13/karachi-literary-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oxford University Press and the British Council are holding a literary festival - first of its kind.
The programme can be viewed here. KLF programme
I am off to Karachi next weekend to attend this moot.
]]></description>
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		<title>the two insomnias</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/11/the-two-insomnias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
* Jalal ad-Din Rumi
]]></description>
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		<title>Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan &#8211; Man Kunto Maula</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/10/nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-man-kunto-maula/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Rumi &#8211; Guest House</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/03/09/rumi-guest-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them
all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the [...]]]></description>
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