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		<title>The Night Kaptaan Fell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are some hurriedly jotted thoughts from last night in no particular harmony or structure. I do not specifically want to contend anything in particular and it is merely loud thinking and should be taken as such&#8230; No adjectives can encompass that feeling accurately. Was it shocking, or awful, or traumatically dreadful? Or for that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=1314&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Among ‘Unliberated’ Liberals (I): Bogus critics unpack the so-called baloney of Pakistan’s literary ‘Babas’</title>
		<link>http://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/among-unliberated-liberals-i-bogus-critics-unpack-the-so-called-baloney-of-pakistans-literary-babas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not perhaps a coincidence that there was a tirade of criticism last week  directed against a popular literary genre among Pakistan&#8217;s Urdu readership. First it was Viewpoint Online, who calls itself a progressive dissenting voice, dedicated a whole issue [1] to the thread; then I came across this article in the Opinion pages of The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=1274&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Among Dogmatic Slumberers (I): Resisting the Renaissance, the Bigger Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Muselmann&#8221; no longer was the master of his own body [...] also the spiritual, intellectual and emotional activities decreased radically. [He] lost his memory and his ability to concentrate. His conscience was fixed on food only [...] He only realized things directly in front of his eyes and only heard when word were shouted [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=1104&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Karen Armstrong (III): Of Possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace has somewhere written that narcissism is part of depression. But Wallace&#8217;s characterization is only partially true for a kind of narcissism leading to nihilism, which in a grim way ultimately forces the individual to consume himself. There are other, arguably more stark, forms of narcissism. And one such form is cultural narcissism. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=1098&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Karen Armstrong (II): Of Compassion and Other Obscure Ideals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As evident from your primary assumption, I see you compartmentalizing Pakistani society in two distinct compartments, that is, 1) the suicidal terrorist or the extremist radical, and 2) who does not essentially belongs to the first category. And this particular compartmentalization supplies you with an unwarranted assumption that the latter somehow believes in an ideal [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=1093&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Karen Armstrong (I): Of the Silent Choir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reply to Karen Armstrong&#8217;s letter which she wrote in 2011 to the people of Pakistan to discover compassion in their daily lives [1]. In the Name of Allah the Compassionate the Merciful Earlier last year, I was visiting a small bookstall when I discovered your letter. I picked it up, almost offhand, as if it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=1029&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wooing the Quran (3): Countering the Grand Delusion (Al Kahf, the Cave)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aasem Bakhshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ   مَنْ حَفِظَ عَشْرَ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ سُورَةِ الْكَهْفِ عُصِمَ مِنَ الدَّجَّالِ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, &#8220;Whosoever memorizes the first ten verses of Surah Al-Kahf will be saved from (the trial of) Dajjal.&#8221; ****** The above Hadith recorded by Muslim in his Sahih, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=973&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Plight of Modern Man (I): Spaces for Self-Annihilation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most intelligent minds of our age do not find theism as a reasonable choice and many smart people have a tendency to willingly or inadvertently destroy what is seemingly good for them. These are two simple contentions that came up during exchanges with two different friends this week. Given the room to disagree with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=915&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Ivan Ilych, My Father, and Ibn Qayyim’s Book of Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These ruminations are as much about my father as these are about Tolstoy&#8217;s struggling protagonist, while he grapples with his death in the second half of this celebrated novella. Setting aside the higher-meanings, especially Tolstoy&#8217;s propensity to build an intricate narrative, weaving his most cherished themes of historical determinism, human nature and the meaningfulness of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=772&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading as a Vocation: Some Francis Bacon for a Young Friend</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting Lahore these days to attend my convocation, I was perhaps a little over-cautious to be in time and ended up today in the university two hours earlier than the scheduled time. Rather than milling about in the university, I decide to lounge myself in the university cafeteria. It must have been ten minutes since [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hangingodes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=456554&#038;post=814&#038;subd=hangingodes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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