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		<title>Knock On The Door</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajit Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear a knock on my door. The door bell is broken. I haven&#8217;t fixed it. Why should I? I am not expecting anyone. Not anyone I can think of. Wait. Could it be? Is she coming back? She did leave in a huff. Could have changed her mind. Haste never is good, I used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=830&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Endings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajit Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; He was sickeningly lonely. She wanted to be cherished. She gave him companionship. He gave her a diamond ring. &#8216;Now we are happy,&#8217; said they and died &#8211; together in their private peace. &#160; Filed under: Verse Tagged: Acceptance, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Trade<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=827&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh! Mother, Maiden, Moonchild!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajit Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What worship distorts your visions, what debauchery impugns your soul what dreams your nightmares hide what joy your sadness pervert? Oh, mother, maiden, moonchild! - whisper to me as this falling night what darkness your heart beholds what tragedy so undying a love? &#160; Filed under: Verse Tagged: Beauty, Dreams, Love, Relationships, Truth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=824&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nauseate If You Must But Don’t Fall Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human world hangs in a dark universe. Like a glowing, red terracotta lamp. The kind that lights up living room corners of people convinced of their aesthetic tastes and can afford convictions. Little black bugs, flies and mosquitoes buzz around the warm spot of life, swarm it in increasing frenzy. Lust for life hums [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=822&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Same Old Feeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajit Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must have heard it a thousand times before or more you know I been around been out in the sun too long but now as your lips carve those words in air as if on stone I kneel down once again as always head bowed on the floor knight me, my angel I surrender to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=819&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrim of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I hear people rave about the sublime beauty of butterflies, the awe-inspiring sight of Niagara falls, the overwhelming sense of discovery to be felt in Amazon rain forests, or the feeling of divine peace experienced standing by the magnificent sea, I realize I&#8217;ve experienced all these emotions, maybe with greater intensity, just watching a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=816&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each one of us, irrespective of who we are, has to be deemed &#8216;crazy&#8217;at least once in our lifetime. As human beings we must attempt the courage to step outside the confines of custom at least once to experience what is possible. Filed under: Nothing Personal, But... Tagged: Joy of life, Life, Love, Meaning, Quest, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=811&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monuments of Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the bleakness of a frayed page- a beckoning frailties strung on a twine- memories laughter silenced in matte- framed longings time deformed by vanity pointers of what could have been, sensations sterilized in two-dimensional reality a scrapbook summation to transitory life, me drifting away from me an iceberg breaking off from the Arctic, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=809&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knights In Shining Armor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all &#8216;knights in shining armor,&#8217; you know. You, me, the man on the street, that cute-faced chick&#8230;. Each one of us, man! Each one of us! Beautiful! Brave! Benevolent! And this armor that we build to protect our fragile selves, this beautiful to behold piece of man&#8217;s imaginative, inventive best, somehow always seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=804&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India and The Indian: A Relationship On Ice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex, God, And Country &#8211; Part 2 0f 2. [Conclusion] Aspirations versus Actuality Right from our days as young kids the dictum ‘Unity in diversity’ has been held up to us by well-meaning people as a self-evident truth while explaining what India is. As adults it becomes obvious to us that those words are no more representative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightafiretonight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10630037&amp;post=799&amp;subd=lightafiretonight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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