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		<title>Salaam Brick Lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d find many in England who&#8217;d look down upon the Tower Hamlet area. The reason seemed pretty clear to me while people reacted when I told them about my time in Brick Lane. This particular area is synonymous with Bangladeshis, Sylhetis and British-Bangladeshis. People who look down do that because they [not the Brits] don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=150&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Wilde&#8217;s gaol and Jane Austen&#8217;s school</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a walk through the roads in Reading could be tiresome for someone who doesn&#8217;t know the roads, who&#8217;s a visitor, an outsider. On a busy day, it could also be unexciting. My colleagues ask me how I felt about Reading town. I smile and say, &#8220;Not very exciting&#8221;. They laugh and say &#8220;now I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=149&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hit from the back…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Pakistani colleague of mine was beaten up by a group of men in front of a pub [Three Guineas] in Reading recently. First they hit him with an empty whisky bottle and then when he fainted they kicked him all over his body. His fault? He was talking to a lady he met in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=148&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Edgy pedestrians, spitting Romeos and white beggars…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you walk through the streets of London, travel on fast-moving tube-trains, ride the buses snaking though roads, you tend to feel everything that they have here is much much better than what you have in your country. Yes, they do – as far as the system is concerned. You&#8217;ll never get lost in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=147&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drizzles escort chill throughmy window panes thatdon&#8217;t have your reflectionsbut the clouds saythey&#8217;ve spoken to youon their way to summer from yours; and they sprinkle your words on me. Posted in poem<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=146&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepless in eerie silence</title>
		<link>http://whiteleaves.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/sleepless-in-eerie-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you leave Bangladesh for another country, especially westward, the first thing that bothers you is the stark difference between Bangladesh and the country you’re in. Traffic, for example, is one of them. When I was making my way to Caversham [Reading, where my office is] from Heathrow, I appallingly missed my car back home. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=145&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love</title>
		<link>http://whiteleaves.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There she wasLike the dew on petalsUniting with sunlightDazzling my heart. Posted in poem<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=144&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On writing poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 07:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember those days when I used to write poems in Bangla. In my college days. I also had a notebook for writing poetry. When I was in class xi, I lost the note book that had many unpublished poems. Someone actually stole it. I got unimaginably depressed. A very bad thing happened after that. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=143&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unsmart, very unsmart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few weeks, a “bamboo” has showed up near our club entrance. I didn’t quite get it what the bamboo was doing near our entrance. That’s where the club members used to park their cars. I asked the security guards about this. They said this is the parking space for someone very special, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=142&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the elite, stupid!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News reports in Bangladesh say car importers have gone crazy with the rumour that the government is to increase duty on imported cars. And that&#8217;s why they are importing as many cars as they can before the budget in June. Yesterday&#8217;s papers said Bangladeshi importers have brought in about 5,000 cars in April 09. May [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whiteleaves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4429630&amp;post=141&amp;subd=whiteleaves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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