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					<description><![CDATA[I am overhauling all my writing spaces and shifting my reflective indulgences to Substack for broader engagement and readership. All the Urdu writings are now collected on a new domain called https://isharaat.com/. This blog, as a result, will remain archived. Since I am now going back to more frequent posting, it is probably a good&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/moving-on-to-substack/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Moving On to&#160;Substack</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Intimacy or Integrity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Intimacy and Integrity by Thomas P. Kasulis is an insightful exploration of Eastern and Western Weltanschauung. Kadulis delves into the rich fabric of cultural identity, epistemology, and aesthetics, and offers a broad canvas to sketch how these diverse orientations shape our interactions with the world and how we conceive knowledge and art in our particular&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/intimacy-or-integrity/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Intimacy or Integrity</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thunderbolt Scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Son, the biopsy results have arrived,&#8221; I said without any pleasantries. &#8220;I have cancer.&#8221; Silence lingered on the other end of the line. &#8220;Hello, are you there? Can you hear me?&#8221; I asked, trying to break the stillness. &#8220;Dad,&#8221; my son&#8217;s voice finally broke through, sounding desolate. &#8220;Is it confirmed, or do they need to&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/breaking-bad-news-scene/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Thunderbolt Scene</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is it possible to preserve the art of war?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In nine different stories published in the 1940s, the inimitable science fiction author Isaac Asimov explored the ethical implications of technology by way of imagining a world increasingly inhabited by humanoid autonomous systems. All these stories chart different threads of a singular narrative where a reporter interviews a ‘robopsychologist’. All these stories somehow converge on&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/is-it-possible-to-preserve-the-art-of-war/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Is it possible to preserve the art of&#160;war?</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recoloring Literary Tapestries in Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Structural dynamics of the stories remain a less explored dimension within literary criticism. The Saussurean model, for instance, pretty much restricts itself to the semiotics with an aim to get interpretive insights using relational tools. The so-called ‘structure’ within Structuralism doesn’t concern itself with geometry, physics, or what Kurt Vonnegut called the ‘Shape of Stories’&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/recoloring-literary-tapestries-in-translation/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Recoloring Literary Tapestries in&#160;Translation</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Celebrating Restrained Irrationality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 06:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The protagonist in one of Max Shulman&#8217;s short stories is extremely proud of his precise thinking. The girl he desires is dumb and prior to proposing, he decides to woo her into an education of logical fallacies. The coaching continues for the next five evenings. On the sixth eve, she returns his advances by demonstrating&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/celebrating-restrained-irrationality/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Celebrating Restrained Irrationality</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Transporting the Ineffable and Transmuting the Observable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even the closest reading of a translation is indirectly effected by a tendency to pronounce invisibility of the translator. Any critical evaluation of a translation cannot possibly speak about its merits and shortcomings without repeatedly referring to the original narrative. Lens of a critic always focuses on an overlapping semantic space where authorial voice merges&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/transporting-the-ineffable-and-transmuting-the-observable/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Transporting the Ineffable and Transmuting the&#160;Observable</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The hedgehog who didn&#8217;t know what it means to be a fox</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Born in 1927 in an Agarwal family of Jalandhar, he was probably named Bheesham after the Kuru warrior Bhisma of Mahabharata. His father used to visit progressive scholarly gatherings of socio-religious nature. I am not aware of the details, but circa 1935, in one such gathering, where Allama Muhammad Iqbal was also present, he converted&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/the-hedgehog-who-didnt-know-what-it-means-to-be-a-fox/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">The hedgehog who didn&#8217;t know what it means to be a&#160;fox</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Random Encounters in the City (4): The Odd One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 08:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imam was giving a brief sermon on death. A friend&#8217;s mother died last night and we were lining up for the funeral prayer. &#8220;And now the last thing brothers,&#8221; Imam wrapped it up, &#8220;not that it&#8217;s obligatory, but better to stand in odd number of files; Allah is odd and likes it.&#8221; &#8220;Why does He&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/random-encounters-in-the-city-4-the-odd-one/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Random Encounters in the City (4): The Odd&#160;One</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Divinity of the Capsule Critic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 07:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Second to speculative philosophy, literary criticism is perhaps one of the most conflict ridden discipline of all theory. The conflicting claims are often paradoxical but the role of critic itself being a contentious thread of controversy is perhaps the most interesting paradox. After lot of circuitous rounds, the debate always boils down to a more&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://hangingodes.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/divinity-of-the-capsule-critic/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Divinity of the Capsule&#160;Critic</span></a>]]></description>
		
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