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		<title>Terminal Paradox</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2008/08/24/terminal-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jawad Haroon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if Bushra Khala coined the term &#8220;physiological depression&#8221; today, but with it she captured the essence of the consequences of prolonged mass psychological trauma: it sets into bones and muscles and organs all too sensitive to withstand too much depressive pressure on the psyche. This is what politics means for us today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be a sustainable piece of china, or, How to pick up the pieces</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2008/07/07/how-to-be-a-sustainable-piece-of-china-or-how-to-pick-up-the-pieces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jawad Haroon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are dropped. You may have felt the toppling nudge or might not even remember anything of the toppling itself, only the complete sudden absence beneath you of your wooden shelf, on which just moments before your perfect base had rested, as if forever. There you were feeling all ornamental, all precious, and here you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Grain of Wheat&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/11/17/a-grain-of-wheat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidra Nadeem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Non-involvement is the safest way out.&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t do anything; lie low for a few days and let it blow over.&#8221; &#8220;I can&#8217;t see its relevance to my life and I really don&#8217;t have time.&#8221; I go about my everyday life like I always have; wake up in the morning, go to school, come back home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of an air hostess</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/07/27/confessions-of-an-air-hostess/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/07/27/confessions-of-an-air-hostess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamania Jaffri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During travel, of the various thoughts occupying our minds, flight attendants usually are not it. Unless they do something abnormally nice, obnoxiously rude or posses aisle traffic stopping good looks. Their role as our hosts while we are on the plane, is now a mutually sour one. Passengers are impatient, demanding and far too many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have we ceased to care?</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/07/17/we-have-seized-to-care%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bushra Hassan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For months on end the Lal Masjid issue has been splashed across newspapers and tv channels. Many have graced us with their opinions; and we have all formed our own. We sit in our comfortable rooms and discuss the failings of the government, the strengths or weaknesses of the mullahs, the strangeness of seeing women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/07/04/life-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fraz Nayyar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child I remember the first day I went to the school campus on Hill Road. I remember that my mother took a job in Beacon House so that I, her son, could attend what was considered the best school in the country at that time. The year was 1984 and I was just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woes of a pregnant woman</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/06/30/woes-of-a-pregnant-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bushra Hassan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many facets to the journey of pregnancy. Any woman who has ever been pregnant knows, and any woman who intends to bear a child should beware that there are as many opinions about the journey of pregnancy as there are pregnant women in the world. The opinions usually oppose one another, but mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born and Bred in Islamabad</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/06/29/born-and-bred-in-islamabad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bushra Hassan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We moved to Islamabad at the time when Junejo shrunk the sizes of all cars for bureaucrats. So from a fleet of cars and an army of security personnel, in our palatial house in the province we moved to a shrunken car, no security, no trees and a rented place we never could call home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Lost Control&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/05/27/of-lost-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asim Mehr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of Lost Control&#8230; One of the fundamental basis on which our society functions, or any society for that matter, is the fact that we control our lives. On a broader level some people might argue that this control is rarely with us. We are answerable to so many other &#8216;beings&#8217; or institutes or rules that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lahori Air that Lahoris Breathe</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/22/the-lahori-air-that-lahoris-breathe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/22/the-lahori-air-that-lahoris-breathe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bilal Ahmad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before one enters Lahore from the M2 motorway, two almost simultaneous phenomena make for a very disturbing sensory impact on the traveler. 1. The thick cover of what looks like a sick umbrella of smoke and dust hugging the roof of the city becomes visible from a distance of around 30 kilometers, and 2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Overkill</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/18/information-overkill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/18/information-overkill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamania Jaffri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qasid ke ate ate khat eik aur likh rakhon, Mein Janta Hon Jo Yo Likhein Ge Jawab Mein And so mused Mirza Ghalib in the romantic eighteenth century. Here in 2007, not only do I know instantly when my email has been received, I also know when someone is typing a response in my chat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drama Queens!</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/17/drama-queens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/17/drama-queens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamania Jaffri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian channels have recently started airing on my cable again, for some it started earlier and others remain deprived. Legally, or illegally, with permission or without it, they are however back. The point is, were they missed? Our local channels were quick to fill the void with the Indian stars from star plus, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Ideal&#8221; Match</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/04/01/the-ideal-match-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamania Jaffri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From cheesy film actress interviews, to online profile pages, from casual curiosity to deep intrigue, many of us face the question: &#8220;what is your ideal match?&#8221; Given a choice of thought, opinion, favorite color and most detested politician, do we have equal liberty to define another human in our favorite parameters and declare as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lahore</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/03/30/lahore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/03/30/lahore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fooqi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Kiss kadar piyar say aae janay jahan rakha hai..dil kay rukhsar pay iss waqt teri yaad nay haath&#8230;&#8217; Lahore must look cleaner &#8211; the soot washed away by acidic rain. This should provide yet another excuse for Lahoris to celebrate &#8211; their wealth and deteriorating health. I can almost hear the loud music and frivolous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Smart, Act Dumb</title>
		<link>http://www.readitlive.com/2007/03/30/be-smart-act-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamania Jaffri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the smart girls were busy fighting for their rights, and proving their worth, the smarter ones decided to act dumb. Yes, Smart is Over Smart and Dumb is the new Smart. All their lives qualified, intelligent, sweet looking young girls have had one adversary standing in their path to glory: the Damsel in Distress. [...]]]></description>
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