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		<title>The barber</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always wondered what it takes to get a barber to talk to me. There&#8217;s something about me that clams a barber up. I sit there in the plastic waiting throne and watch the barbers all talk to their customers, &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-barber/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=817&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smile for London</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Monday, poets like Salena Godden, Inua Ellams, Polarbear, Kate Tempest, Musa Okwonga, Josh Idehen and loads more have short 40 word poems animated on video screens on 30-40 London Underground platforms. So does Jarvis Cocker, Benjamin Zephaniah, Scroobius Pip &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/smile-for-london/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=815&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things to look forward to in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One. Resolution I gave up making New Year&#8217;s Resolutions back when I was a child. I always had a comedy one prepared for my mum when she&#8217;d phone me on New Year&#8217;s Day to say hello, ask how my hangover &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/things-to-look-forward-to-in-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=811&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams of Maseo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think I looked like Maseo from De La Soul (top, left, upside down). This meant I had underground credibility. I used to purposefully tell people I looked like Maseo from De La Soul. Because I had underground &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/dreams-of-maseo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=803&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tumbling&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey. I will blog more in the new year. I promise. But I&#8217;m adding stuff to this tumblr Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=800&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been trying to do a filtered keyword search in my brain for the overriding themes affecting novelists in 2011 and I'm coming up with nothing. For all the snobbery around readability versus literary worthiness (on both sides), I feel like I've read some piggin' amazin' books this year. Which made me feel quite blah about the whole Booker debate. Either way, with the worthy and the readable, neither lists ever massively appeal to me. It seems that the books I like on the longlist get pruned off for shortlist. I'm obviously not clever enough for the Booker. <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/books-of-the-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=798&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untitled Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a Christmas thing to read at Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler's amazing Christmas show at Christmas Bush Christmas Hall. Here it is:

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		<title>In celebration of Mos Def</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching this season of Dexter and seeing Mos Def not go the route of most rappers (diminishing returns from semi-disguised autobiographic films into bad action films Jason Statham would shoot in the face), and yes he&#8217;s billed as Yasiin Bey &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/in-celebration-of-mos-def/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=793&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generation Vexed launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week (23 November), Kieran Yates, my co-writer on the Generation Vexed project. It was buckwild. Probably unlike any other launch party publishing has seen in ages. Which is a good thing. People having a good time and getting down &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/generation-vexed-launch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=788&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kabadasses 13 November, E4</title>
		<link>http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/kabadasses-13-november-e4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a sitcom. It&#8217;s called Kabadasses. It&#8217;s about Kabaddi. It was directed by Anil Gupta. It stars Jack Doolan, Shazad Latif, Tony Jayawardena, Kulvinder Ghir, Ian Bonar and Josie Long. It&#8217;s on E4 on 13 November 2011 at 11pm, &#8230; <a href="http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/kabadasses-13-november-e4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikeshshukla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8182520&amp;post=786&amp;subd=nikeshshukla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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