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		<title>How instability is garnered</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/08/how-instability-is-garnered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest analysis published by The News
We continue to bemoan the failure of democratic norms to take root in our governance culture. True, that the repeated extra-constitutional interventions and direct or indirect military rule have rendered democratic governance as a distant and seemingly unattainable goal. In addition, the emergence of non-state actors, sometimes more powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chal Way Bullehya Chal O’thay Chaliyay &#8211; Let&#8217;s go where everyone is blind</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/07/chal-way-bullehya-chal-o%e2%80%99thay-chaliyay-lets-go-where-everyone-is-blind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chal Way Bullehya Chal O’thay Chaliyay
Jithay Saaray Annay
Na Koi Saadee Zaat PichHanay
Tay Na Koi Saanu Mannay
***
O’ Bulleh Shah let’s go there
Where everyone is blind
Where no one recognizes our caste (or race, or family name)
And where no one believes in us
***
Ab to jaag Musaffir pyare
Raeen gayi latke taare
Kar le aj karni da weera
Mod na ho si [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eighteen years later&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/06/eighteen-years-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.razarumi.com/?p=2391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It took eighteen years to locate a friend. Much like a star, the moon, a constellation and an ancient river my friend R has been mercurial, moody and elusive. Hiding one day and emerging the other week, and missing for years.
It is for the technology that enabled me to get reconnected. There is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rakhshanda Jalil &#8211; Panchlight and other stories</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/05/rakhshanda-jalil-panchlight-and-other-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.razarumi.com/?p=2384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Rakhshanda Jalil is singlemindedly pursuing her interests and dreams. Her latest book of translation has attracted attention from critics as well as high profile media persons such as Khushwant Singh. In his latest column he talks about RJ and her new book.
Bihar in translation
One of my lasting regrets is that when I migrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is looking out?</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/04/who-is-looking-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.razarumi.com/?p=2347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who sees inside from outside?
Who finds hundreds of mysteries
even where minds are deranged?
See through his eyes what he sees.
Who then is looking out from his eyes?
-- Version by Coleman Barks
Open Secret
Threshold Books, 1984
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
who is the one
who sees the external
right from within
who is the one
who casts a hundred magic spells
when watching the insane in love
try your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have returned, like the new year (Rumi)</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/03/i-have-returned-like-the-new-year-rumi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.razarumi.com/?p=2337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am posting Sunlight translations of Rumi's  Ghazal (Ode) 1375, from  "Diwan-e-Shamsi" ("The Collection of Shams"), rendered by Nader Khalili, and Prof. William Chittick:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
i've come again
like a new year
to crash the gate
of this old prison
i've come again
to break the teeth and claws
of this man-eating
monster we call life
i've come again
to puncture the
glory of the cosmos
who mercilessly
destroys humans
i am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zolf bar baad &#8211; Mohsen Namjoo</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/02/zolf-bar-baad-mohsen-namjoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bahar Ayee (Spring Has Come)</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/02/01/bahar-ayee-spring-has-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.razarumi.com/?p=2321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[*By Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Translated by Ayesha Kaljuvee
Spring has come
So have returned suddenly from the past
* *
All those dreams, all that beauty
That on your lips had died
* *
That had died and lived again each time
All the roses are blooming
That still smell of your memories
That are the blood of my love for you
* *
Spring has come
* *
All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poem by Sarmad</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/01/30/a-poem-by-sarmad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A special friend sent this poem via Facebook. I have read it again and again..hope the readers like it too
Along the road, you were my companion
Seeking the path, you were my guide
No matter to whom I spoke, it was you who answered
When Sun called Moon to Sky, it was you who shined
In the Night of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell Haqqani Saheb &#8211; forgive your peers and colleagues</title>
		<link>http://www.razarumi.com/2010/01/29/farewell-haqqani-saheb-forgive-your-peers-and-colleagues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.razarumi.com/?p=2358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A personal favourite, Irshad Ahmad Haqqani is dead. This is a huge loss to Urdu journalism as he was the last of sane voices in the vernacular industry. I often disagreed with his centre-right views but his tone was measured and he remained a staunch supporter of democracy. May God bless his soul.
I stumbled on [...]]]></description>
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