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		<title>We need to breathe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 12:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She told me this story when we were walking by a lake. It was not a special lake &#8211; just a lot of dull water in a hole. We were not holding hands and I thought that made the walk more intimate. If I had taken her hand in mine, it&#8217;d have had a sweaty, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=240&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first story to be published by someone other than myself. www.bullmensfiction.com/STORIES10/Nair.html Filed under: Short Stories Tagged: Adult, Published<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=238&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God</title>
		<link>http://ajaynair.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/sachin-tendulkar-savours-reaching-his-double-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sachin Tendulkar savours reaching his double century What can you say? What can you really say? Filed under: Sport Tagged: Cricket, Tendulkar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=233&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Night We Saw Shehenshah</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what I remember about that night: I was twelve and lived in a house that had one bedroom and one living room; a narrow passage connecting the two which I would string with the staccato rhythm of my growing legs while furiously reading for some upcoming exam; a kitchen that was impossibly small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=228&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What she remembers from when she was ten years old, when she went to learn swimming, is this. The pool was a murky green shade, as if the water had been filtered through a moss-sieve. Five feet deep at one end and twenty two feet at the other. Was the slope gradual or were there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=225&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace-keeping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was a small boy but a strong boy, was Velu.  When he was eight, his arms were cords of steel and his fingers had the grips of ancient hooks. He climbed trees as if they were vertical roads and he split open coconuts with his hands (and sometimes cracked them with his teeth). He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=220&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed. He wonders whether her mouth is open with her tongue hanging out. But he is glad to not have to know what she looks like right now &#8211; they only make love in the dark. Thankfully, she&#8217;s not one for cuddling. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=216&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She burps, a burp full of longing and satisfaction, then regards me with an un-shy grin and says, ‘Excuse my French&#8217;. She is wearing shades that blend in with the smooth, dark skin of her face and if I didn&#8217;t know better, I&#8217;d think that the shades are her eyes, they are so smooth and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=214&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Take Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have turned forty now and that forces you to turn around and go back and see what slipped through the gaps between years. You go back to the city — his city. You rent an apartment for a month that is a five minute walk from where he used to live. With you. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=209&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twin Moons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stroman first saw the moons when he took Lisa&#8217;s blouse off. He did not call them moons when he first saw them; they were merely identical crescent-shaped crimson discolorations at the tops of each of her breasts. He was distracted by their dark lustre — enough to stop wanting to furnish her body with respectful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajaynair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9778477&amp;post=206&amp;subd=ajaynair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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