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	<title>¼th Of Me</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Let go…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/11/18/let-go%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/11/18/let-go%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quarter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teen-trouble]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[emotional detachment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[emotional distance]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[self-help books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always thought of self-help books, various philosophies of life, therapists and the like as full of crap and I was rather contemptuous towards regular people with regular problems who seek advice and solace from these. I absolutely hated The Alchemist, for instance and consider it one of the most overrated books of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mediocrity principle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/11/11/the-mediocrity-principle/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/11/11/the-mediocrity-principle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Chetan Bhagat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[defence mechanism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[honest mood]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[public relations agency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-deprecatory]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Van Gogh]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be the worst career move I&#8217;ll make and I will probably live to regret this, but I&#8217;m in a fiercely honest mood, and so on this day, to all the lovely people who read this blog, I hereby declare myself as mediocre.
And no, admitting this mediocrity isn&#8217;t my self-deprecatory defence mechanism kicking in. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The way he makes me feel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/11/04/the-way-he-makes-me-feel/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/11/04/the-way-he-makes-me-feel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[this is it]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw This is it last week. And my belief, that Michael Jackson is and will always be the greatest entertainer of all time, was reinforced. But sitting in that almost empty theatre, I was angry. Angry that not enough people in Bombay were watching this movie. Angry that not every single person in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the zone</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/29/in-the-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/29/in-the-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quarter]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Alasdair AK White]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anxiety-neutral condition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[comfort zone]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[From Comfort Zone to Performance Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GRE exam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[routine trajectory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this place that I&#8217;ve been stuck in for many years now. It&#8217;s called the comfort zone.
&#8216;The comfort zone is a behavioural state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviours to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk&#8217; - Alasdair AK White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/22/whats-in-a-name/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/22/whats-in-a-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quarter]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Bohri community]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Immaculate Conception]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Princess Kaur]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[re-christened]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Tasneem Shabbir Nashrulla]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Tasneem by any other name will bite your head off.
Like most people, I hate it when others distort my name. Unfortunately, my name lends itself to distortion very easily. For instance, lying in front of me at this very moment, staring at me with utmost insolence is an envelope that states, &#8216;To Jasneem, Hindustan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You know what I love?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/15/you-know-what-i-love/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/15/you-know-what-i-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[green and black of carved watermelons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hot bath]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Polaroid photograph]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love candyfloss in a jar.
The stark red, green and black of carved watermelons on a pristine white plate.
Raspberry lip balm that makes my lips feel deliciously fruity.
I love elephantine fluffy coloured cushions strewn across a dark, oak-wood floor.
I love walls whitewashed in reckless perfection.
I love a fleeting moment captured on a Polaroid photograph with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A-range marriage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/08/a-range-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/10/08/a-range-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quarter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anti-arranged marriage]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[married ones]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[parents-meet-parents]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[then boy-meets-girl]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was witness to a conversation that reinforced my anti-arranged marriage stance.
Like all respectable Bohri families, my mom inducted me at a very early age (when I couldn’t protest), in what we call a ‘menij’ group. This is a same-sex, around same age group of assorted Bohri boys or girls, each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random musings of a big city girl in small towns</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/09/23/random-musings-of-a-big-city-girl-in-small-towns/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/09/23/random-musings-of-a-big-city-girl-in-small-towns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quarter]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Maharashtra assembly polls]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sakhara village]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over four days, I traveled to rural Maharashtra to cover stories of hope and change for our pre-election coverage.
DAY ONE – Got up at an unearthly hour and sleepwalked to the pick-up car headed to Satara, my first destination. Fortunately the driver wasn’t the chatty type. Unfortunately he was the nose-digging type - one hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have k(no)wledge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/09/16/i-have-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/09/16/i-have-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Confessions of a kafir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie films]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Kaaba in Mecca]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Man U team]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Ramzan Eid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There comes a time, in almost every self-aware person’s life, when they truly believe they’re a worthless piece of s***. This is my time.
A colleague who was curious about Ramzan thought I would be the best bet to answer his queries, considering I’m a Muslim. “What do you’ll do on Ramzan Eid?” “Errrrr…. we eat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Altering egos</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/09/09/altering-egos/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/2009/09/09/altering-egos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasneem Nashrulla</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Teen-trouble]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drama queen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Practical Prude]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/down-a-quarter/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s me – Drama Queen – one who thinks life is/ought to be a combination of Notting Hill, Friends and Grey’s Anatomy.
Then there’s my alter ego (still in its nascent stage) – Practical Prude – one is trying to be a combination of Howard Roark and Heartless B****.
There was a phase, during the crazy carefree [...]]]></description>
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