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  1. I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: people, reading, indian - http://w33.us/q4r
  2. I linked to what I tho't was an Urdu version of Manto's story Boo, but on closer inspection it turned out to be Punjabi. Help?
  3. For years I've wanted to read Sadat Hussain Manto's story Boo (Odor) -- now I've found it! English (cached): http://tinyurl.com/ycwbej3 ..
  4. "I went...past the night porter, who was sleeping uncomfortably, his head on the counter, like a future decapitee..." -Javier Marias
  5. After reading Five Rupees blog, typed "Pakistan is " and "India is " into Google & saw suggested searches. I could spend all day at this.
  6. The rain has stopped, but power failure is in full swing. I hope it's because the electricity people are actually repairing something.
  7. @bellapaisienne Pilates keeps me alive, sometimes. (I'm glowing with it now, after my morning workout.)
  8. When the Himalayan wind starts blowing this way, I wrap my arms around myself knowing that this is the same wind that has touched your body.
  9. You will see your reflection in the clear water of the River Gambhira, Clear as her heart. With fishes leaping like quick sidelong glances.
  10. "Her eyes swollen by ceaseless crying, her face, partially covered by long dark hair, cupped in her hands,she looks like a miserable moon."
  11. Re-reading Kalidas' beautiful Meghdoot, the Cloud Messenger - very suitable for the rainy season.
  12. Oh, this is weird: Americans ice dancing to a Bollywood medley http://tinyurl.com/ybjudhp
  13. The main thing was to drive, to feel the car's forward movement, to zig & zag around vehicles pedestrians potholes, forgetting everything.
  14. I should have been a pair of ragged claws.
  15. My eyes were stabbed awake by a strip of sunlight coming through a gap in the curtains. The rain has passed.
  16. frantic hammering. Then it began again. At first I was all like, Oh rain! Romance, peacocks dancing, me eating bhajia. But that's over now.
  17. It's been raining for days. Pouring, actually. Pounding, in fact. Just now, a cessation, silence filled with loud birdsong and...
  18. @kitabet http://tinyurl.com/yj486qk Tarla Dalal is usually reliable -- bisi bele huli anna
  19. Found poem for Remembrance Day, by Andrew Motion http://tinyurl.com/ygxpyho
  20. @Morning_Porch Happy anniversary!