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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This profound leadership oracle deserves its own place in the pantheon of corporate absurdities. It’s the kind of rhetorical flourish that leaves employees speechless, unsure whether to laugh, cry, or double-check their marriage certificates.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Virus and Void</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[umashankar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From virus to virusI have kept my date with not dying,tossing and turning in sheets,cough syrups and repurposed antibiotics.Inside me, the pathogen worms,outside me, the pathogen storms,in the middle of it all: a spent spring. Intervals of time don’t matter,intervals&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2022/01/15/virus-and-void/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Virus and Void</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Forgotten Barbecue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[umashankar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 04:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has come upon meonce more, this month ofinquisitions, the rat raceto the roads I never thoughtI’d take. Behind me and beyondthe misty miles, lie themuch-dreamt meadowsthat will never be my home now. They beckon me yet againlike the foliage&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2021/01/31/the-forgotten-barbecue/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">The Forgotten Barbecue</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was on the Saturday the 24th of October, 2020, with the three days’ holiday in its infancy, that I dozed off with a mild ache pulsing through my meagre frame, right after the morning bout of toast and ginger-chai.&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2020/11/06/from-the-diary-of-a-covid-positive-fugitive/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">From the Diary of a Covid Positive&#160;Fugitive</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Drop Come Home</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[umashankar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This drop on the sill,
a distant cloud come home
on wings of heaviness,
or grief as I know.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Month of August</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 19:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sullen rain simmers, pretends to slalom yet surrenders,recoils in the clouds of sodden discontent.Arid thoughts smother the sapless stalks of life.It is the month of August, the fat middle ofan unrelenting virus, spinning off the sporesof a shivering November,it’s nowhere&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2020/08/16/month-of-august/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Month of August</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exit the Ghost of Blogger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[umashankar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Confined to the peripheries of my home, looking out the window at a mysteriously pink moon rising day after day, I have of late been forced to cogitate on the wonders of being alive, the hump in the lawn not&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2020/04/12/exit-the-ghost-of-blogger/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Exit the Ghost of&#160;Blogger</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Such a Wuhan Moment!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[umashankar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of us remember Wang Weilin? Truth be told, I had the luxury of combing the server farms of Google for the uncouth secrets of the wicked world before I tossed that one at you. I am&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2020/03/29/such-a-wuhan-moment/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Such a Wuhan&#160;Moment!</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mind Lies like a Mango</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, I have descended to filching from weird quotes of indeterminate, ambivalent origin and intent. True, I have faltered, faded, fumbled and stumbled into that eternal bin. The crispy tang of the green fruit before ripening into succulence has mellowed&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2019/12/15/mind-lies-like-a-mango/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Mind Lies like a&#160;Mango</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Further to Bruno&#8217;s Story) It seems I have troubled your heart, but it is a tale recount I must. So that next time you see a dog pup scrapping the bins for crumbs, you don’t wince in disgust. And when&#x2026; <p class="more-link-container th-uppercase th-text-2xs"><a href="https://uspandey.com/2019/08/25/in-which-leia-doesnt-eat-the-ice-cream/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice&#160;Cream</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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