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		<title>Trials, errors and the art of compromise</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/30/trials-errors-and-the-art-of-compromise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaipur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriarchy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning The Hindu carries a long piece I wrote on one of Jaipur&#8217;s more sensational trials. The idea of &#8220;samjhauta&#8221; or &#8220;compromise&#8221; has informed a lot of my work over years, and this instance is particularly heart breaking. Court documents and chargesheets are always interesting things to read; in this instance, it was intriguing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12973&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things Fall Apart: A Review of Behind The Beautiful Forevers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/25/things-fall-apart-a-review-of-behind-the-beautiful-forevers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I reviewed Kate Boo&#8217;s Behind The Beautiful Forevers for The Hindu. At the outset, I liked the book and, as a reporter, was blown away by a number of things that the review doesn&#8217;t really address &#8211; the way the book was organised, the reporting and research process etc. The review also addresses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12508&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King and I: Dispatches from Morocco</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/02/the-king-and-i-dispatches-from-morocco/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/04/02/the-king-and-i-dispatches-from-morocco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Haked]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[l7a9d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I spent a fortnight in Morocco speaking to people about the aftermath of the Arab Spring. The Moroccan establishment has spoken often of &#8220;The Moroccan Exception&#8221; &#8211; where the King acted quickly to usher in reforms and  defuse the protests. Yet, many &#8211; such as the two young people in this photograph &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12222&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Singe The Body Electric</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/03/14/i-singe-the-body-electric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence-Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marital abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meena Kandasamy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meena Kandasamy is the author of two compilations of poetry: Touch and Ms. Militancy. The following is an incredibly brave and extremely disturbing piece she published in Outlook last week. Her writing, and the violence this account describes, makes commentary shallow and inadequate. I was particularly shaken by the thought of a woman waking up, sipping coffee, watching television, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11973&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All you need is Visa power</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/03/08/all-you-need-is-visa-power/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/03/08/all-you-need-is-visa-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great thing about the free movement of peoples and cultures is that it is so easy to prevent. From the newspapers these last few months: The government has revoked the visa of Japanese Maya Kobayashi, who was scheduled to visit India to share her experiences as a resident of Fukushima, the site of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11882&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11483&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Free Man</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/30/a-free-man/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/06/30/a-free-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8300&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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[Operation Green Hunt]]></category>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=7569&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=6866&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of land and other demons</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/02/07/of-land-and-other-demons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=6639&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=6155&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=6086&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An index of incompetence</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/12/27/an-index-of-incompetence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=6041&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=6026&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=5508&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=5467&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=5250&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=5172&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4928&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4802&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4695&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4609&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4479&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4397&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4391&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4368&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4239&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4211&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4174&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<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&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=4161&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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