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	<title>around the fireplace</title>
	<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog</link>
	<description>Come let us talk about stories, and the stories behind stories.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Behind the Shadows - A Review by Anchita Ghatak</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2012/11/07/behind-the-shadows-a-review-by-anchita-ghatak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you roll your eyes in horror every time you speak to a call centre executive? Emmanuel Sigauke in his story entitled Call Centre takes us into the world of these frontline soldiers of the twenty first century globalised market economy. In a call centre in California, a Zimbabwean is mocked by a customer for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Special Friendship &#8230;and a Special Book</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2012/10/01/a-special-friendship-and-a-special-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2012/10/01/a-special-friendship-and-a-special-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that love happens when we least expect it. Well, that is true of friendship too. It was on the 28th of March, 2010, that I first wrote to South African writer Zukiswa Wanner. I didn’t know anything about her except what the British Council had told me when they asked if I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Grandfather</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2010/11/06/my-grandfather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Memoirs]]></category>

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I was ten years old when my grandfather passed away. I remember that May morning as one remembers a particularly vivid dream – in a flashing series of disconnected sounds and sepia images. Neighbours milling around, someone carrying a large oxygen cylinder, Ma hurrying, anxious, and then a deep silence. I was whisked away to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come walk with me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2010/06/06/24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



  

Paris. How should I describe her to you? Her wide, sweeping boulevards, the grand elegance of her palaces, the perfect lines of her domes and spires and Gothic towers that rise gracefully against a cloud-flecked sky, her plane trees along the Seine whose black waters ripple gold in the spring sunshine, her sudden, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best of All Possible Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2010/04/12/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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Friday evening – which, in England, is another way of saying ‘Let’s hit the pub!’ It took me many years to appreciate the glories of an English pub. You may ask, as I once used to, why anyone would want to spend a perfectly good evening in a dark and smelly room in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Railway Carriage&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/11/18/in-a-railway-carriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Journeys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was a student, studying in far away Ahmedabad that summer. The term ended, and I boarded the train home to Delhi. That summer, instead of the fast, overnight train, I chose to take the long slow train that wound its way leisurely through Gujarat and the deserts of Rajasthan for a night and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Listen to me…listen to me good! This is Bachanal! This is Carnival!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/08/31/listen-to-me%e2%80%a6listen-to-me-good-this-is-bachanal-this-is-carnival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/08/31/listen-to-me%e2%80%a6listen-to-me-good-this-is-bachanal-this-is-carnival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from a day at the Notting Hill Carnival. And what a day it was – full of music, colour, dance and laughter. Here it is, in pictures.

The main parade winds slowly through the streets, the floats followed by dancers in spectacular costumes twirling, shaking, stamping. 
&#160;

More than a million people throng [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lake District - Vignettes and Views</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-lake-district-vignettes-and-views/</link>
		<comments>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-lake-district-vignettes-and-views/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Lake District]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wild places]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Lake District lies in Northwest England, in the county of Cumbria. It is my favourite holiday getaway in all of England, a place we have visited again and again, and which I know we will continue to visit. It is difficult to describe the beauty and the attraction of the area without recourse to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to Mughal India</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/01/20/a-visit-to-mughal-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/01/20/a-visit-to-mughal-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agra]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Mughals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the Mughals of India is a story so exciting that it is difficult to know how to tell it. How should I begin? Should I begin with Babur&#8217;s invasion, the two great battles that he fought and won against all odds and which led to the establishment of one of the greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Banyan Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/01/10/the-great-banyan-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.longlongtimeago.com/blog/2009/01/10/the-great-banyan-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohini Chowdhury</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Calcutta]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love December in Calcutta. It is a cool, pleasant month that I associate with childhood memories of picnics, and visits to the horticultural gardens or the zoo without fear of broiling in the hot, tropical sun.
It had been many years since I had spent a winter in Calcutta; in fact, ever since the children [...]]]></description>
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