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		<title>Stay Thirsty Stay Stupid</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/03/stay-thirsty-stay-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coca Cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With due apologies to Steve Jobs, how does one begin to respond to this latest bit of inanity from Coca Cola? &#160; Filed under: Capitalism Tagged: advertising, Coca Cola, Coke, Steve Jobs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11483&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Free Man</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/30/a-free-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aman Sethi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mazdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Corporation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=8300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Ashraf is short and stubby, with a narrow but muscular chest and small, broad hands balanced on strong, flexible wrists. But Ashraf does not grudge the throw of the dice that has made him a safediwallah with a mazdoor’s body. A small man’s body can do things that a slenderchamak-challo cannot even contemplate. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8300&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The afterlife of a massacre</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/28/the-afterlife-a-massacre/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/04/28/the-afterlife-a-massacre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Countryside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence-Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counterinsurgency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dantewada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operation Green Hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operation Khanjar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tarmetla]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=7569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a long essay for the cover of the May 2011 issue of Caravan  magazine. In &#8220;At the Bloody Crossroads&#8221;,  I plot the fate of the village of Tarmetla in the course of a year of &#8216;counterinsurgency&#8221;. At 5:55 AM ON 6 APRIL 2010, Golf Company of the 62nd battalion of India’s Central [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7569&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Big Media Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/03/02/big-media-anyone/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/03/02/big-media-anyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dainik Bhaskar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DB power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media-industrial complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thermal Power Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From an article I did for this morning&#8217;s Hindu: DB Power is a subsidiary of DB Corp Ltd, a media conglomerate that owns four newspapers, including the Hindi Dainik Bhaskar and English DNA, that have a combined readership of 17.5 million readers, and the My FM radio station. The company&#8217;s most recent project in Dharamjaigarh shall displace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6866&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Of land and other demons</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/02/07/of-land-and-other-demons/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/02/07/of-land-and-other-demons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Countryside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFFCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PESA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vandana Vidhyut Ltd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=6639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since January this year, I have been traveling in North Chhattisgarh to try to understand the scale of land acquisition and dislocation in a state that markets itself as India&#8217;s &#8220;Power Hub&#8221;. There is something pretty massive going on in North Chhattisgarh &#8211; as a recent Down to Earth Cover pointed out : The state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6639&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suddenly Sanyal: The Many Arrests of Narayan Sanyal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/01/05/suddenly-sanyal-the-many-arrests-of-narayan-sanyal/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/01/05/suddenly-sanyal-the-many-arrests-of-narayan-sanyal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B.P. Verma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binayak Sen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPI(Maoist)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narayan Sanyal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pijush Guha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raipur Additional District and Sessions Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in The Hindu Narayan Sanyal is a 74-year-old man with white hair parted to one side and fibromatosis in both hands. His arrest memo notes that he wears dentures, has spots on his body and smokes cigarettes. “My health is not going well, arthritis is a new thing catching up, age is telling,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6155&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Merchant of Murshidabad</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/12/30/the-merchant-of-murshidabad/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/12/30/the-merchant-of-murshidabad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Binayak Sen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pijush Guha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UAPA 1967]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At 10.45 a.m. on May 1, 2007 Pijush Guha checked into the Mahindra Hotel here and vanished. The hotel register indicates that he checked out at 8.45 p.m. the same day but no one knows where he went, who he met or what he did till 4.10 p.m. on May 6, 2007, when Anil Kumar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6086&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>An index of incompetence</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/12/27/an-index-of-incompetence/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/12/27/an-index-of-incompetence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binayak Sen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee for the release of Binayak Sen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[We Are All Seditious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Are All Seditious Now]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the issues that the Binayak Sen trial has revealed is the quality of the investigative process in the case and the nonchalance with which the police has flouted even routine guidelines, safeguards and rules. In a series of &#8220;reaction interviews&#8221; I did after the verdict came out, Ajai Sahni called the investigative process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6041&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The Trial: State of Chhattisgarh versus Pijush Guha, Binayak Sen and Narayan Sanyal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/12/26/the-trial-state-of-chhattisgarh-versus-pijush-guha-binayak-sen-and-narayan-sanyal/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/12/26/the-trial-state-of-chhattisgarh-versus-pijush-guha-binayak-sen-and-narayan-sanyal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Christmas Eve, the Raipur Sessions court delivered a surprisingly harsh sentence in the case of The State of Chhattisgarh versus Pijush Guha, Binayak Sen and Narayan Sanyal, where B.P. Verma sentenced all three to life imprisonment for &#8220;conspiring to commit sedition.&#8221; This latest ruling on a sedition case isn&#8217;t so much about the narrowing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6026&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nobody Can Stop The Revolution&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/11/10/nobody-can-stop-the-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/11/10/nobody-can-stop-the-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Countryside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayodhya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Games]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ganapathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maoism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naxalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, a number of journalists received the following statement from Ganapathy; General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). In the text, Ganapathy clarifies the Maoist stance on a broad range of topics &#8211; particularly Kashmir, the Commonwealth Games, the Ayodhya Verdict, Mamta Bannerjee in Bengal, Obama and the North East. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5508&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Viral: Cyberspace&#8217;s subtle fevers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/11/02/going-viral-cyberspaces-subtle-fevers/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/11/02/going-viral-cyberspaces-subtle-fevers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, I have been reading a fair bit on and around the whole idea of cyber-security, the &#8216;militarization of the internet&#8217;, the idea of military viruses and other William Gibson-esque stuff. For those of us who read (and loved) Neuromancer &#8211; Gibson&#8217;s cyber punk novel set in a futuristic Chiba City, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5467&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aim for the Insurgent&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/10/28/aim-for-the-insurgent/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/10/28/aim-for-the-insurgent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and you just might hit the wedding party. A fascinating intellectual property rights dispute offers up a possible reason for the number of civilians killed by American drone strikes. To quote from the article from The Register: The dispute surrounds a location analysis software package &#8211; &#8220;Geospatial&#8221; &#8211; developed by a small company called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5250&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chhattisgarh Field notes</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/10/25/chhattisgarh-field-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month, the levels of violence in Chattisgarh appear to have de-escalated to a degree. I say de-escalated rather than reduced because the violence is largely driven by raids and counter-raids between the Maoists and the security forces, which is very different from the chaotic and un-nerving violence described in the recently leaked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5172&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opening Pandora&#8217;s box</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/10/01/opening-pandoras-box/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/10/01/opening-pandoras-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ayodhya judgement is out; Pandora&#8217;s box has been opened and I suppose the hope fairy is fluttering amidst us all. That there haven&#8217;t been riots is being seen as a sign that &#8220;the country has moved on&#8221;.  My personal sense is that the absence of riots simply proves that riots are rarely spontaneous: adequate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4928&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Torture and Testimonies</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/09/13/on-torture-and-testimonies/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/09/13/on-torture-and-testimonies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write out a reply to the comments on Shuddha&#8217;s post, Kashmir&#8217;s Abu Gharaiab, but thought I would expand it into a larger post. I&#8217;d like to make clear that I have been to Kashmir only once &#8211; and that too for a few hours in the aftermath of the earthquake, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4802&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if man dies in the forest, and no one is around to see it?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/08/11/what-if-man-dies-in-the-forest-and-no-one-is-around-to-see-it/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/08/11/what-if-man-dies-in-the-forest-and-no-one-is-around-to-see-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the  Chhattisgarh police were caught in an extraordinary encounter in the forests of Dantewada. The encounter was interesting not just in the event itself, but also in the Police&#8217;s attempts to shape media perception during and long after the encounter. On Kafila, we devote a considerable amount of our time trying to decode [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4695&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember, what the dormouse said &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/07/13/remember-what-the-dormouse-said/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/07/13/remember-what-the-dormouse-said/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the need to show &#8216;results&#8217; in Chhattisgarh, the police are pulling some unlikely rabbits out of still stranger hats. The latest is Lingaram Kodopi, tipped by the police to be &#8220;Azad&#8217;s successor&#8221;, but as Jefferson Airplane reminds , If you go chasing rabbits&#8230; The following piece appeared in The Hindu under the joint by-line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4609&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossed Wires: Intelligence and Counter-intelligence in Chhattisgarh</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/06/27/crossed-wires-intelligence-and-counter-intelligence-in-chhattisgarh/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/06/27/crossed-wires-intelligence-and-counter-intelligence-in-chhattisgarh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in The Hindu On May 16 this year, adivasis, attending the weekly Sunday bazaar at Unchapur in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, found six corpses stretched out on the main thoroughfare of the village. In a note placed on one of the bodies, the CPI (Maoist) took responsibility for executing the six villagers for succumbing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4479&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women become targets; SPOs issue gag orders</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/06/13/women-become-targets-spos-issue-gag-orders/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/06/13/women-become-targets-spos-issue-gag-orders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Mukram hit the news, there has been a sure and steady attempt to cut-off access to the areas surrounding the Chintalnar Camp. In the meantime, sources who helped me and a reporter from Tehelka access the villages are worried about their safety. SPOs in Chintalnar have reportedly threatened to &#8220;take action&#8221; against villagers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4397&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mukram violence worsens; adivasi girls allege rape</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/06/11/mukram-violence-worsens-adivasi-girls-allege-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/06/11/mukram-violence-worsens-adivasi-girls-allege-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Two sisters live in a clearing in the forest about 10 km beyond the abandoned houses and empty yards of Mukram village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. A third young girl cowers in the courtyard of her aunt’s house in neighbouring Tokanpalli. Between 14 and 18 years of age, Kose, Rame and Hidme (names changed) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4391&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mukram slips into a vortex of violence</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/06/04/mukram-slips-into-a-vortex-of-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/06/04/mukram-slips-into-a-vortex-of-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mukram: Rumours swirling around Mukram suggest that this adivasi village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district may soon be abandoned. “There is talk of going to Orissa or Andhra [Pradesh],” said a prominent adivasi leader with familial ties to Mukram, “It could happen in as little as a week. Villagers say there is too much pressure from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4368&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of villager mired in controversy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/21/death-of-villager-mired-in-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/05/21/death-of-villager-mired-in-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sukma: Chhattisgarh police confirmed the death of Mediyum Bandhi, a 27 year old adivasi from Aitpal village, in the Sukma police station in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. Police claim they shot Bandhi as he tried to escape from the lock-up. Bandhi was shot three times in the back with a Self Loading Rifle (SLR). Bandhi’s death [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4239&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adivasis allege torture in anti-Naxal operations</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/18/adivasis-allege-torture-in-anti-naxal-operations/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/05/18/adivasis-allege-torture-in-anti-naxal-operations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen Adivasi villagers of Samna in Orissa&#8217;s Narayanpatna block claim that they were brutally assaulted in custody last week, an allegation the police have denied. According to the villagers, they were picked up on May 9, as part of a joint operation conducted by the Orissa and Andhra Pradesh police along the inter-State border, airlifted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4211&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arms and the Maoists</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/13/arms-and-the-maoists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 05:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1988, Ravula Srinivas paid Rs 100,000 for a black-market AKS series Kalashnikov rifle with a light-wood finish and a folding metal shoulder stock.  On April 6 this year, the same rifle was pressed into service in an ambush that killed 75 members of the Central Reserve Paramilitary Force and one Head Constable of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4174&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nandini Sundar &#8211; Will counting caste reduce inequality?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/11/will-counting-caste-reduce-inequality/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/05/11/will-counting-caste-reduce-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 07:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nandini Sundar&#8217;s recent Op-Ed for The Hindu on caste-enumeration in the latest round of the census. Read the entire article here. But come back with your comments &#8211; what do you think about caste&#8211;enumeration? Yesterday when the census enumerator visited, I asked him how he felt about the current debate on counting caste in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4161&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Oblique Strategies of Trickster City</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/04/the-oblique-strategies-of-trickster-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 10:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s midnight: An aspiring model cooks up a batch of Fem Bleaching Cream; an actor rehearses his dialogues to the sounds of manic laughter, “Oh tell them all it is I who is God,”; a fourteen year old feigns sleep as his father looks on, wondering what has prompted his son to abandon his studies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4134&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School&#8217;s Out in Chhattisgarh, (But the Force is in!)</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/03/24/schools-out-in-chhattisgarh-but-the-force-is-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School&#8217;s out! In Kerlapal, Dantewada, battle-weary soldiers of the B Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force peer over barbed-wire fences as skinny schoolboys in sky-blue shirts play cricket. The force has occupied the senior school and with it the basketball court and part of the playing field; but the game [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3978&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Day of Long Knives</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/03/21/chhattisgarhs-day-of-long-knives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gachanpalli: Stories of the “Operation” reverberate along the path from the Andhra Pradesh border to Gachanpalli, a village deep in forests of Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. Villagers along the 35 kilometre stretch of broken track, bombed-out schools, and graves, still speak of the day when security forces swept through their fields and killed 12 men. Testimonies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3923&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Plot thickens: more petitioners show up</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/03/19/the-plot-thickens-more-petitioners-show-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gompad case gets murkier. Gachanpalli is another village mentioned in the same case I have been writing about for some time now. I visited the village this week to find a similar pattern where villagers vanish without really telling anyone where they are going and suddenly show up in the Supreme Court in New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3914&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Police killed them&#8221; say the villagers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/02/22/police-killed-them-say-the-villagers/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/02/22/police-killed-them-say-the-villagers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following the Gompad case for the past month and a half, and have been surprised at every turn.  The issue is centred on the deaths of 12 villagers on October 1 2009 in Chhattisgarh.  The matter is currently sub judice &#8211; so I would prefer not to comment on what I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3847&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote! Or else&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/02/14/vote-or-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Lingagiri, it didn’t take long to tally the results of the recently concluded panchayat elections. On January 31 this year, a sum total of four people voted in this remote village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. The polling booth opened on time, the polling officers were present, and then the force arrived. Pujari Rajamma, 35, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3805&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Hunt: The Anatomy of An Operation</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/02/11/green-hunt-the-anatomy-of-an-operation/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/02/11/green-hunt-the-anatomy-of-an-operation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An operation is underway in Central India, but no one really knows what it is. Variously described as a media myth, a comprehensive hearts and minds strategy, and an all-out offensive by paramilitary forces and the state forces along the borders of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, Operation Green Hunt has become a shoebox [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3800&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The police detain 3 more in Gompad case</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/01/18/police-clampdown-chhattisgarh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Konta: The mystery surrounding the killing of nine Adivasis in Gompad village in Dantewada district in October last year is deepening, with the Chhattisgarh police detaining three more witnesses to the incident and restricting all access to the area on the pretext of Operation Green Hunt. Operation Green Hunt is a catch-all phrase, used by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3731&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Sodi Sambho?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/01/13/where-is-sodi-sambho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raipur: Sodi Sambho was last seen in public on January 3 this year, when the Chhattisgarh Police intercepted her as she was en route to Delhi to receive treatment for a bullet wound. Since then, neither the press nor her lawyer has been able to access her. Ms. Sambho is a key witness in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3707&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police States, Anthropology and Human Rights: Nandini Sundar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/01/07/police-states-anthropology-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guestpost by Nandini Sundar 3rd January 2010 Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, Delhi University and I have just returned  (January 1st) from a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh. Ujjwal had gone for research and I had gone for a combination of research and verification purposes to assess the livelihood situation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3690&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth that we will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/12/10/we-must-begin-by-acknowledging-the-hard-truth-that-we-will-not-eradicate-violent-conflict-in-our-lifetimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am reproducing the full-text of Obama&#8217;s Nobel Speech sourced from Associated Press. It would be great to get reader feedback on this. Particularly the theme of the &#8220;Just War.&#8221;  It would be great if, apart from considering the ethics of going to war at all, in any circumstance, we could also consider the specificities of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3621&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The long arm over-reaches</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/11/23/the-long-arm-over-reaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Delhi High Court struck down an RTI application filed at the Election Commission of India, bringing an unprecedented standoff between two of India’s towering institutions of state to a temporary halt. In the case of Election Commission of India (EC) versus Chief Information Commission &#38; others, the decision came in favour of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3563&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pleasure of Release</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/10/30/the-pleasure-of-release/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/10/30/the-pleasure-of-release/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there is always the thrill of holding people hostage against their desire, the Maoists, of late, seem to have discovered the pleasure of release. Having spanked the state into submission by beheading Francis Induwar; by freeing policeman Antindranath Datta and “peacefully” vandalizing the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani, the Maoists appear to be signaling a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3495&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canal Vision</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/10/01/canal-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A longer version of my story for the Hindustan Times.It takes off from a post that I did for Kafila two years ago. Predictably, nothing has changed, but people in the Government are now beginning to think about this. Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh: The sight of the Narmada bursting through the gates of the Indira Sagar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3402&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtuous Feedback: Why Google keeps winning</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/08/16/virtuous-feedback-why-google-keeps-winning/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/08/16/virtuous-feedback-why-google-keeps-winning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is in response to Anu&#8217;s comment on my previous post on Google: Search and Destroy.  I started off responding as a comment, but had been planning a follow-up post on the issues she had raised.  Read the first post and her comments here. Anu&#8217;s queries are centred around the stability of Google&#8217;s current market [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3168&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer I can&#8217;t Afford &#8211; Erica Rex</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/08/14/cancer-i-cant-afford-erica-rex/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/08/14/cancer-i-cant-afford-erica-rex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breast Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erica Rex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding out I had breast cancer came as a shock. But the really rude awakening was learning I’m not middle class anymore. I found a lump in my breast last March. This wasn’t like the lumps of my youth. Those earlier iterations had been hard as pebbles, painful, nested between my sternum and the base [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3158&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search and destroy: Google and the online ad market</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/08/07/search-and-destroy-google-and-the-online-ad-market/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/08/07/search-and-destroy-google-and-the-online-ad-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google spokesperson, Adam Kovacevich’s favourite example of a well-researched article on the now-aborted Yahoo-Google deal is “The Plot to Kill Google” that appeared in Wired Magazine in January 2009.  The lengthy article takes great pains to reveal Microsoft’s attempts to scupper “a small deal that it [Google] was convinced would benefit consumers, the two companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3148&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The horror, the horror: India&#8217;s new IT act</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/07/31/the-horror-the-horror-indias-new-it-act/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/07/31/the-horror-the-horror-indias-new-it-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article from last week&#8217;s Outlook magazine on the new cyber law makes the following points: Cyber police is watching Government can monitor, intercept or even block any online content including e-mail that it thinks is offensive or could threaten national security. Could lead to misuse. Personal data up for grabs Government agencies can now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=3122&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pigs Revolt; and the Mexicans are not Amused</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/05/06/the-pigs-revolt-and-the-mexicans-are-not-amused/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/05/06/the-pigs-revolt-and-the-mexicans-are-not-amused/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swine Flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearly loved children, is it not a sin? To peel potatoes and throw away the skins? For the skins feed pigs and the pigs feed you, Dearly loved children is it not true? Children, the elderly and even the otherwise hale and hearty, take cover.  There is an ill wind that blows, a virus is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=2545&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to know if (when) your bank is insolvent</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/03/17/how-to-know-if-when-you-bank-is-insolvent/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/03/17/how-to-know-if-when-you-bank-is-insolvent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Credit Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysing a bank’s financial statements is a bit like suing your family lawyer for malpractice; the jury may be on your side but the evidence is invariably circumstantial.  However, in times such as these  when even charities are screwed by their bankers - it is best not to trust anyone. Worry not, we at Kafila [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=2215&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bailout or Bankruptcy?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/02/24/bailout-or-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economy in the doldrums, Barack Obama in the White House, and Elton John releasing a line of crystal encrusted Ipods for charity, it’s suddenly fashionable to talk about “Sacrifice” once more; a trend that senior management at General Motors seems to have picked up on.  Their December 2, 2008 proposal to the Senate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=2097&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can you repeat the Question? Slumdog gets an answer WRONG!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/02/20/can-you-repeat-the-question-slumdog-gets-an-answer-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/02/20/can-you-repeat-the-question-slumdog-gets-an-answer-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gopal Singh Nepali]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our continuing converage of all things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small &#8211; I stumbled across this excellent little piece by Rajeev Shrivastava in the 13th February issue of Friday Review of The Hindu. (It was also posted on the Sarai Readerlist). While Kafila has been debating the merits/de-merits, context and meaning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=2087&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why  Mulally can af-Ford to dilly dally</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/02/11/una-ford-able-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/02/11/una-ford-able-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Mulally]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[more about &#8220;Una-ford-able Risk?&#8220;, posted with vodpod You know it’s been a bad season for auto sales when the Chief Executive of Ford personally calls you up when you buy a car. Michael Snapper, a lawyer from Grand Rapids Michigan, received such a call from Ford Chief Exec Alan Mulally to thank him for choosing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=2006&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generally Motored! Why GM has the Government by the Gonads</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/02/03/generally-motored-why-gm-has-the-government-by-the-gonads/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/02/03/generally-motored-why-gm-has-the-government-by-the-gonads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hummer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next&#8230;” As General Motors representatives prepare for the February 17 discussion with the Treasury Department on viability plans, they shall be under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1978&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A short note on National Interest</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2009/01/21/a-short-note-on-national-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2009/01/21/a-short-note-on-national-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Credit Crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis K. Berman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of things that can be done in national interest appears to grow longer every day.  While in India it can be used for anything from destroying working class housing to build stadiums to destroying tribal communities to build dams, to torturing, illegally detaining, and killing innocents under false pretences; in the US, officials [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1916&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watching and not-watching</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/11/28/watching-and-not-watching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence-Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai violence; mayhem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For three days now I have tried to not watch the horror that has unfolded in Mumbai. I am un-sure what my motivations are. In the rooms around me, three televisons harmonize incessantly &#8211; talking heads on one channel blending into the sound of gunshots on another; the advertisements on the third seguewaying into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1387&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lets do the things we normally do</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/11/28/lets-do-the-things-we-always-do/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2008/11/28/lets-do-the-things-we-always-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence-Conflict]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Posted in Violence-Conflict<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1385&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surfing the Wave:  Chrystel beats the bubble</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/11/02/surfing-the-wave-chrystel-beats-the-bubble/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2008/11/02/surfing-the-wave-chrystel-beats-the-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Case-Schiller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Ramu Dhara bought his first house, fathered his first child, and weathered his first financial crisis.  While Chrystel Garipuy, his partner, had no role to play in the crisis and an equal role in parenthood; she is, as they both readily confess, wholly responsible for the biggest purchase of their lives: A late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1278&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buses, Bad Ideas and Bambi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/10/24/buses-bad-ideas-and-bambi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bambi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bus Rapid Transit System]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tarun Pall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some say that if you give a man a long enough rope, he will eventually hang himself. Others say that when you’re in a hole; stop digging. Given the stubbornness of our friend from a 2.5 world country, chances are he will be one of the first to hang himself in a hole.  A truly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1171&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On dealing with fuss-tration</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/10/14/on-dealing-with-fuss-tration/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2008/10/14/on-dealing-with-fuss-tration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Right watch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for those of us who thought that frustrated, naive and aggressive car drivers are a caricature, Hey we at Kafila found one just for our readers.  He is loud, aggressive and fuss-trated as they come. Read on &#8230; The wonderful thing about blogging, I am told, is that it allows everyone to publish their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest VP debate since &#8211; like ever!!!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/10/03/the-greatest-vp-debate-since-like-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2008/10/03/the-greatest-vp-debate-since-like-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama; mccain; VP debates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, Good evening, to people across the globe. In our attempt to cater to our world wide audience at Kafila; we have decided &#8211; in collaboration with several heavily funded political lobbyists &#8211; to bring you a semi-realtime commentary on the first and only vice presidential debate in what promises to be the USA&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=857&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autos anyone?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/08/15/autos-anyone/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2008/08/15/autos-anyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the recent &#8211; and fascinating &#8211; debate on autorickshaws that spanned three posts and several comments, I couldnt resist putting this up once it arrived in my mailbox.  Thank you Akshaya for sending it my way.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=491&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of the Author(-ized)?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/08/01/death-of-the-author-ized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ajay Maken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authorisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or it is just another case of planning paranoia? Although commonly understood to be a city of traders, Ravinder Singh Chowdhary*, is adamant that Delhi be understood as the abode of farmers.  Sitting adjacent to lush verdant fields of brinjal, rice, and spinach in the village Madapur Khadar in Delhi&#8217;s Badarpur Constituency, Chowdhary, explains how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=450&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the war against terror&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/06/19/in-the-war-against-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kolkata Municipal Corporation does its bit &#8230;.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=374&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So what was that fuss about?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2008/06/05/so-what-was-that-fuss-about/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2008/06/05/so-what-was-that-fuss-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metropolis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRT Delhi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Car lobby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pedestrains]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pleased with its professionally executed hatchet job on what is probably Delhi&#8217;s first real public transport endeavour that incorporates the needs of pedestrians and cyclists apart from bus users, the press seems to have forgotten the BRTS &#8211; moving on to search for other programmes to torpedo. But what was the BRTS fuss all about? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=290&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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