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		<title>Today, Here, Now&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where in the world Should one be searching for peace Which table today Should one play to win the game When can one be Quite and still exist And when will all the dices Fall just right Stronger one should grow Not outside but Inside Compassionate one should be Not just inside but truly outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>63rd Independence Day &#8211; I owe them all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A midnight sixty three years ago We walked our baby steps FREELY Now reaching atop the global commerce A billion people celebrate India A pious soul in a loin cloth Taught the world Nonviolence A World leader par excellence laid foundation for a battered nation And an iron man by his side secured the nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chosen One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The saints from the heavens came with the daily bowl of porridge They saw me watering the plants. They asked if I was the gardner. I was hungry and I lied.  &#8221;Yes I am I said&#8221; They gave me the porridge and I was sold out on my hunger When the old gardner came I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education is Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Education in the new age is Free for those who are ready to be self driven. I am not talking about Training. Training and Education both have a significant difference according to me Training helps you being equipped to perform a job better, or may be even landing on a job. Education helps you build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scattered life of a Floating Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ours is what we should be calling the Floating Generation. Today as I was chatting with my very close friend Iqbal Mohammed, I told him something that stuck on with me. My damn life is so scattered all around and I can&#8217;t seem to get them all together. And I don’t think I will ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life starts with an ‘L’ and ends with an ‘E’. End starts with an ‘E’ and ends with a ‘D’ Death starts with a ‘D’ and ends with an ‘H’ Happiness starts with an ‘H’ and ends with an ‘S’ Sorrow starts with an ‘S’ and ends with a ‘W’ Worry starts with a ‘W’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacha Bazi &#8211; Innocence Exploited and Abandoned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Need help]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first came to know about this illegal, horrid and absolutely criminal practice when it was mentioned in Khalid Hossieni’s “The Kite Runner” where Amir returns to Afghanistan to find his friend Hassan’s son sold and kept captive to feed the pervert imaginations of Afghan warlords in the Taliban regime. My initial thought was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do we need?</title>
		<link>http://www.vinodnarayan.com/poetry/what-do-we-need</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is that magic number? That can secure our future. A Hundred Thousand, A Million, or a Hundred Million. How much should we have? To safely face the unknown future Enough to eat healthy and contented Or more than what we can spend? We need more clean air - Much more than we can breathe. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Time Takes a Nap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When time takes a nap Everything stands still Nothing moves, Not an atom The world gets captured in a snap When time takes a nap The uttered word is caught in the open Not reaching the ears they journeyed to The world stands still with orphaned words When time takes a nap The sleeping never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUTCAST</title>
		<link>http://www.vinodnarayan.com/flash-fiction/outcast</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vinod Narayan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vinodnarayan.com/?p=570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The guy was dressed in a black over coat and he wore it such a way that he wanted to hide something inside it. It was a small town and much about everyone knew each other. No surprise that he arose suspicious looks from every eyes on every table in there the moment he entered. [...]]]></description>
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