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		<title>Film Review &#8211; &#8220;The Reluctant Fundamentalist&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starring: Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi and Haluk Bilginer. Directed by Mira Nair. (130 mins). Reviewed by Randeep Purewall The film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel took three years to adapt for the screen. Whereas Hamid’s novel centered on two characters, the protagonist Changez Khan and an anonymous [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8760&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verse 2 Converse 2 &#8211; Poetry reading by Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta &#8211; Toronto April 28/13</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Verse 2 Converse 2 - Poetry reading by Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta - Toronto April 28/13]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An early afternoon of poetry Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta 11.30 a.m. &#8211; 2.30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, 2013 Ellington&#8217;s Cafe 805 St. Clair Ave W (btw. Christie &#38; Oakwood, near Arlington) Playing on links between Art and History Sri Lanka and Canada The Caribbean Africa and Asia. Krisantha will present from his latest work &#8216;Transfixion in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8753&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cinema for Change&#8221; &#8211; Addressing Violence Against Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Asian Film Education Society (S.A.F.E.S.) hosted its first “Cinema for Change” film festival from April 19 to April 21, 2013. The theme: “Addressing Violence Against Women.” Friday, April 19, 2013 The Guest Filmmaker, Samar Minallah, appeared at the opening night by Skype from Pakistan. Her documentary, “Swara: A Bridge Over Troubled Water,” looked [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8746&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli mother Addresses European Parliament</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit’s speech made on International Women’s Day in Strasbourg earlier this month. Thank you for inviting me to this today. It is always an honour and a pleasure to be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8737&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classical Punjabi Poetry: Part I &#8211; Farid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farid was born in 1173 near Multan, Punjab. He was a member of the Sufi chisti order. As a poet, Farid is considered the first major poet to use Punjabi for literary purposes. He composed poems in dohas, rhyming couplets with a prescribed metre. His poetry touches on the impermanence of life, humility and love [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8723&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PEN American Center: &#8216;The Hijacking of Human Rights&#8217; by Chris Hedges</title>
		<link>http://uddari.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/pen-american-center-the-hijacking-of-human-rights-by-chris-hedges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[appointment of Suzanne Nossel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PEN American Center: 'The Hijacking of Human Rights' by Chris Hedges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The appointment of Suzanne Nossel, a former State Department official and longtime government apparatchik, as executive director of PEN American Center is part of a campaign to turn U.S. human rights organizations into propagandists for pre-emptive war and apologists for empire. Nossel’s appointment led me to resign from PEN as well as withdraw from speaking at the PEN [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8717&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poems of Shahryar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khwaab A Dream I The melody of desire dissolves The night grows bashful The lips of hope quiver The feet of sorrow tremble Naghmagee aarzoo kee bikhari hai Raat sharmaa rahi hai apne se Hont umeed ke pharkate hai PaaoN hasrat ke laRkaraate hain II Sleep curls up close to one To tears from one’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8706&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years Later: Quatrains on War by Sahir Ludhianvi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marking the 10 year anniversary of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq I. To prove one&#8217;s greatness Is it necessary to shed blood? To banish the darkness of the house Is it necessary to set it ablaze? &#160; Bartari ke saboot ki khaatir KhooN bahaana hi kya zaroori hai? Ghar ki taareekiyaaN miTaane ko Ghar jalaana [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8695&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destination South Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a taste of some of the talks at Destination South Asia which took place at the University of British Columbia on March 23, 2013. “Why is Poverty Declining so slowly in India,” Dr. Ashok Kotwal India continues to be so poor because most of its population continues to be employed in agriculture which pays [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8683&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Annual WIN Canada Literary Festival and Dr. Asha Bhargava Memorial Awards &#8211; Richmond March 23/13</title>
		<link>http://uddari.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/2nd-annual-win-canada-literary-festival-and-dr-asha-bhargava-memorial-awards-richmond-march-2313/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2nd Annual WIN Canada Literary Festival and Dr. Asha Bhargava Memorial Awards - Richmond March 23/13]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashok Bhargava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernice Lever - Charlene Sayo - Lilija Valis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie Nish - Ellen Taleon - Valerie B-Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis E. Bolen - Theresa Chevalier - Srinath P. Dwivedi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Rita Malhotra and Lila Shahani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duke Ashrafuzzaman - Jai P. Birdi - Kuldip Jhand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucia Gorea - Candice James - Surjeet Kalsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharma - Mankajee Shrestha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers International Network Canada The 2nd Annual Literary Festival Richmond Cultural Centre/Library 7700 Minoru Gate Richmond, BC Saturday, March 23, 2013 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM Canada’s Best 2013 Awards &#38; Dr. Asha Bhargava Memorial Awards For more information call Ashok Bhargava 604-327-6040, Alan Hill 604-276-4391, Mahendra Kwatra 778-386-2745 The main objective of this event [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=uddari.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3378850&#038;post=8665&#038;subd=uddari&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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