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		<title>If I were You</title>
		<link>http://inkbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/if-i-were-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 13 years I got in to a play to act again&#8230;it was strange&#8230;I wanted to be in a production but shying away from acting&#8230;why?
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The month of August
has brought sudden rain – the heat would have been
unbearable, otherwise – the familiar
tea coloured puddles, like mirrors
of sky water reflecting earth
the school yard is strewn with hopes
this school, that is now our home.
we came here in a flock
wading across a hollowed lagoon
against a shower of a lethal kind
death falling from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inkbeauty.wordpress.com&blog=3754994&post=385&subd=inkbeauty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Vavuniya</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>inkbeauty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my recent visit to Vavuniya, I visited a women&#8217;s self help group in Thekkawatta. They had all come with their children, dressed up for a show. It was good to see how much beauty is there in Vavuniya, despite all the turmoil and sad stories we hear from the camps.
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		<title>Beauty as a Basic Need</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the discussion that meandered through censorship, cultural policies, art and society left my mind racing through out the night. My mind was working through the ideas expressed in the forum, sifting through, scrutinizing, recalling statements, evaluating&#8230;maybe like my family feels, I am just plain mad. Or I am just one of &#8216;them&#8217;. So who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inkbeauty.wordpress.com&blog=3754994&post=374&subd=inkbeauty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, in the most unexpected moments, random things fall into place, fitting together like in an Italian mosaic and you discover certain truths about yourself, that you should have known long ago.
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		<title>Making a Difference</title>
		<link>http://inkbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/making-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(To Tissa, for making a difference, and hoping you would continue)
On your forty-first birthday
You tell me
You are worried of leaving the world 
Without making a difference
 
And I,
Penchant for the affections 
Missing in your voice
Mark the contours of Difference
By my own everyday-terms
Splashing words, convictions
That make little sense to you
Like tears
 
I fear
Our destinies will not allow us
Triumphs beyond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inkbeauty.wordpress.com&blog=3754994&post=364&subd=inkbeauty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betal</title>
		<link>http://inkbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/betal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Motifs</title>
		<link>http://inkbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/motifs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
it is the line of motifs,
 
the rule of fate
 
as ancient as the carvings
 
on a moonstone,
 

like something symbolic
written on an ola leaf
with a speical sort of pen.
something scultped in to the sands of time
an elephantine miniature, in stone
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		<title>Dark Mere</title>
		<link>http://inkbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/dark-mere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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And then I come across
this dark mere
this stony cliff inside you
rising out of the soft waves of
the most gentle soul I knew you had
 against this cold dark battered rock
I lay my cheek and wonder why 
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		<title>Galle</title>
		<link>http://inkbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/galle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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