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		<title>The Anti-Politics of Murder</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/20/the-anti-politics-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this post is not mainly about the ghastly murder of the rebel communist leader T P Chandrasekharan at Vatakara in Kerala early this month. It appears clear now that irrespective of whether the CPM leadership was directly involved or not, local CPM cadre were involved in the conspiracy. Certainly, it is an act gruesome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12807&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ideal Journalists&#8221; and a Woman&#8217;s Right to Dignity: Aswathy Senan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/15/ideal-journalists-and-a-womans-right-to-dignity-aswathy-senan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ASWATHY SENAN [The astoundingly misogynist representation of Aswathy Senan's appointment as the Liaison Officer in Calicut University by the Deshabhimani newspaper was discussed earlier on Kafila in a guest post by APARNA ESWARAN] Just as issues of gender and ethical journalism have been raised with regard to the Deshabhimani report on 30.04.2012 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12721&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facts and Fiction &#8211; Creative Journalism and Real Consequences: Aparna Eswaran</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/15/facts-and-fiction-creative-journalism-and-real-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by APARNA ESWARAN Increasingly, a section of young unmarried Malayali women are choosing to leave the comforts and shackles of their homes in Kerala, to live independently in alien cities in an unapologetic pursuit of their particular dreams. The patriarchal society of Kerala negotiates this category of women with a strange ambivalence, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12715&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>मई दिवस और गणपति</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/07/%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%88-%e0%a4%a6%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%b8-%e0%a4%94%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%97%e0%a4%a3%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%bf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[मई दिवस और गणपति में सम्बन्ध ही क्या हो सकता है? दोनों की न तुक मिलती है और न ही अनुप्रास की छटा दोनों के पास-पास होने से बिखरती है. फिर गणपति  शुद्ध हिन्दू देवता हैं, गणेश चतुर्थी के अवसर पर तो उनका नामजाप समझ में आता है, लकिन मई दिवस पर उनका आह्वान? इससे [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12603&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy May Day!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/01/happy-may-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Capitalism, Everyday Life, Good Ideas, Left watch, Movements Tagged: Capitalism, May Day, working class<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12536&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life After Capitalism? A Document From Another Time</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/04/life-after-capitalism-a-document-from-another-time/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/04/04/life-after-capitalism-a-document-from-another-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, who perhaps reflected most on the question of ‘ideology’, once wrote that “ideology moves, but with an immobile motion that keeps it where it is”. Althusser did not make any claim about the truth or falsity of ideology. At a certain level, ideology undoubtedly refers to something that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12029&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CPI(M) shelves class struggle in action: Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/04/04/cpim-shelves-class-struggle-in-action-sankar-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/04/04/cpim-shelves-class-struggle-in-action-sankar-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY [As the CPIM)'s 20th Congress began in Kozhikhode today, we bring two pieces marking the occasion. AN] Unbelievable though it may seem even to the staunchest critic of CPI(M), ‘class struggle’ is totally missing in the 20950-plus word Draft Political Resolution (DPR) of the CPI(M), circulated and debated inside the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12249&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute to Narahari Kaviraj (1917-2011): Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/a-tribute-to-narahari-kaviraj-sankar-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/a-tribute-to-narahari-kaviraj-sankar-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY Narahari Kaviraj, eminent Marxist historian and an ideoligue of CPI, breathed his last in the wee hours of Wednesday, the 28th of December 2011. He was born on 17 February 1917 and was the last disciple of Bhupendranath Dutta,the youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda, whom Lenin had once requested, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=11047&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Openness is Unfreedom (alternatively, when data is unfreedom) – Part II</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/04/when-openness-is-unfreedom-alternatively-when-data-is-unfreedom-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/12/04/when-openness-is-unfreedom-alternatively-when-data-is-unfreedom-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zainab1979</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second post in the series that I began in October. I want to thank Rasagy Sharma for prompting me to put down the second post in this series. This evening, Rasagy raised a question on twitter about whether the effort of a developer to make the database of the Indian railways downloadable is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10717&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobpublic vs. Counterpublic in Kerala</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/22/mobpublic-vs-counterpublic-in-kerala/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/11/22/mobpublic-vs-counterpublic-in-kerala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[with inputs from Baiju John] Recent events in Kerala convince me that we need to think more closely about the ways in which our political public life is being slowly overwhelmed by something that is profoundly anti-public but somehow manages to resemble it &#8212; I&#8217;m tempted to call it the Mobpublic. I&#8217;m of course not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10512&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on the killing of Niyamat Ansari and “apology” by the CPI (Maoist)</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/13/statement-on-the-killing-of-niyamat-ansari-and-%e2%80%9capology%e2%80%9d-by-the-cpi-maoist/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/11/13/statement-on-the-killing-of-niyamat-ansari-and-%e2%80%9capology%e2%80%9d-by-the-cpi-maoist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summarized version of statement by concerned academicians, students and activists. For full text of the statement visit http://www.petitions.in/petition/statement-on-the-killing-of-niyamat-ansari-and-apology-by-the-cpi-maoist/1492 and http://www.pragoti.in/node/4567 . In a statement of apparent ‘self-criticism’, dated September 1 2011, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has offered an apology for the posters threatening Aruna Roy, Jean Dreze, Gokul Vasant and Nandlal Singh and members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=10371&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Prizes and Silencing of Adivasi Voice: Nandini Sundar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/10/21/the-politics-of-prizes-and-silencing-of-adivasi-voice-nandini-sundar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NANDINI SUNDAR &#160; Last weekend, I attended a wonderful rally by the Adivasi Mahasabha in Raipur – some 10-15 busloads of people came from Dantewada and Bastar alone, while large numbers came from other parts of Chhattisgarh and even other states like Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal. The procession was flagged off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9926&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Red River: Solidarity Meeting with Maruti-Suzuki Workers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/10/18/a-big-red-river-solidarity-meeting-with-maruti-suzuki-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(this video, courtesy, Pratyush, Correspondence Delhi) A big red river streamed out of the gates of Kamla Nehru Park in Gurgaon last evening (17th October, 2011). Several thousands of workers (according to one estimate &#8211; one hundred thousand workers), from many factories in the Gurgaon-Manesar belt had occupied the park from 4:00 pm onwards to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9870&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline of Communist Mass Base in Bihar: Jagannath Sarkar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/25/the-decline-of-communist-mass-base-in-bihar-jagannath-sarkar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[JAGANNATH SARKAR, who passed away in April, was among those who led the spectacular rise of CPI in Bihar in the 1960s and 1970s. He was among a handful of Bihar CPI leaders who envisioned the crisis in CPI in the mid-1970s. Today is his first birthday after he passed away - he was born [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9612&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Development&#8217;s Waiting Room, Out of Democracy: The Continuing Agony of the DHRM</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/16/out-of-developments-waiting-room-out-of-democracy-the-continuing-agony-of-the-dhrm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[with inputs from Baiju John] Faced with the never-ending agony to which the members of the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) in Kerala seem to be subject to, it appears that that the more familiar ways of marginalizing of dalit people in Malayalee people do not work anymore. The past few days have seen horrendous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9490&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CPI(M)&#8217;s Rectification Campaign and a Bit of History: Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/05/cpims-rectification-campaign-and-a-bit-of-history-sankar-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/09/05/cpims-rectification-campaign-and-a-bit-of-history-sankar-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY The Rectification campaign (RC) in CPI(M) is in practice a PR exercise, vying with top corporate communicators. Take the judgment of killings on 27 July 2000 at Suchpur under Nanoor PS of Birbhum district of West Bengal. Forty-four members and sympathisers, including district committee member Ramprasad Ghosh and zonal committee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9286&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hazare, Khwahishein Aisi: Desiring a new politics, after Anna Hazare and beyond corruption</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/27/hazare-khwahishein-aur-bhi-hain-hazare-there-are-things-still-left-wanting-what-is-to-the-left-of-anna-hazare-and-india-against-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hazare, khwahishein aisi, ke har khwahish pe dam nikle bahut nikle armaan, lekin, phir bhi kam nikle Hazare, so many desires, that every desire takes our breath away so many hopes, and yet so few (with due apologies, for liberties taken, to Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, sometime poet and native of Delhi) On the ninth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9054&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts from Ramlila Maidan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/27/some-thoughts-from-ramlila-maidan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Identities, Images, Language, Law, Left watch, Mirror Worlds, Movements, Politics, Right watch Tagged: Anna Hazare, Lokpal Bill<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=9080&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Gail Omvedt: Nirmalangshu Mukherjee</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/26/response-to-gail-omvedt-nirmalangshu-mukherjee/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/08/26/response-to-gail-omvedt-nirmalangshu-mukherjee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJEE First of all I strongly object to the various insinuations posted in several comments. However, with due respect to a veteran activist, I think the older generation of left activists are by and large failing to come to terms with an unfamiliar form of protest in the IT-age. For them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8913&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is right-wing about the anti-corruption movement? &#8211; Saroj Giri</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/26/what-is-right-wing-about-the-anti-corruption-movement-saroj-giri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAROJ GIRI &#160; A draft for discussion A ruling class contradiction is being played out as anti-corruption movement. It is however politically articulated as ‘a movement of the people’ with possibly a space for the left to intervene. Can the tide be turned against the right-wing upper classes? “What we are witnessing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8910&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The People</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/26/the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not enough people are asking what is motivating people to go to Ramlila Maidan in such large numbers. People like Ghazala Jamil and Anish Ahluwalia are not asking this question because for them the whole thing is an elite, middle-class conspiracy that is anti-Dalit, anti-OBC, anti-Muslim, anti-justice, anti-equality, anti-peace, anti-love and anti-sex. These saviours of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8905&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Questions to Friends</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/three-questions-to-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been taking my time to reflect on the positions that have emerged in the fairly polarised debate on the on-going anti-corruption struggle in Delhi. I take very seriously the questions raised by critics on the right-wing inclinations evident in the movement&#8217;s leadershi, but I think it is both a strategic mistake and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8837&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond &#8216;Middle Class&#8217; and &#8216;Corruption&#8217;: Jeebesh Bagchi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/beyond-middle-class-and-corruption-guest-post-by-jeebesh-bagchi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Liang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by JEEBESH BAGCHI I have been thinking that If we drop &#8220;corruption&#8221; and &#8220;middle class&#8221;  we may find some other way to understand what we sense unfolding from Ramila grounds and television studios. The term middle class has bloated so much that it now holds within it Narayan Murthy to Shekhar Gupta via Nandan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8858&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Trade Union Initiative on Anti-Corruption Struggle</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/new-trade-union-initiative-on-anti-corruption-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are reproducing below a statement issued by NTUI NTUI Statement On the Fight Against Corruption Workers’ life and work experiences are very different from those of the middle class and the ruling elite; so is their experience with corruption. For the middle class, corruption is a mechanism to accelerate government procedures in the public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8834&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Opportunity, A Serious Danger: A Statement</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/24/a-great-opportunity-a-serious-danger-signature-campaign-on-anti-corruption-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Statement Issued by some individuals and friends in social movements The Anna Hazare situation invites two common reactions: many dismiss it as a middle class driven &#8220;urban picnic&#8221;; and others, notably the mainstream media, describe it as just short of a revolutionary movement to establish &#8220;people&#8217;s power.&#8221; The same divide exists among progressives and those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8815&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If only there were no people, democracy would be fine&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/22/if-only-there-were-no-people-democracy-would-be-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been jointly written by Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam At Ramlila Maidan We went to Ramlila Maidan yesterday, the four of “us” considerably swelling the numbers of about a lakh and a half of people there by 6.30 pm, when we left. They were either sitting inside, milling about outside all around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8768&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, Populism and the ‘Middle Class’: The Return of &#8216;Anna Hazare&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/05/democracy-populism-and-the-%e2%80%98middle-class%e2%80%99-the-return-of-anna-hazare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a considerably expanded version of an article that was published in Himal May 2011. It is being re-published, elaborated and updated, in the context of the farcical draft of the Lokpal Bill roduced by parliament and the threatened round 2 of the movement. - AN] Corruption &#8211; a Systemic Affair? Let me start with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8585&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Singur Act and the Deontological Reaction: Prasanta Chakravarty</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/24/the-singur-act-and-the-deontological-reaction-guest-post-by-prasanta-chakravarty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by PRASANTA CHAKRAVARTY The remarkable Singur Land Development and Rehabilitation Bill, passed in the West Bengal Assembly on June 14 became an Act on June 20. The Act scrapped the previous Left Front government’s deal with Tata Motors and has provisions to return land to unwilling farmers. Consequently, Singur land was taken over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=8262&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Left is Dying! Long Live the Left!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/28/old-left-is-dead-long-live-the-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Following the publication of the previous post - the statement on the future of the Left, we have received some important comments that seek to take the debate forward, alongside those predictable, invective laden rants that we know only too well by now. We need to keep the debate on the future of the Left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=7962&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;End of the Left&#8217; in India? Statement by Leftists after recent election results</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/24/end-of-the-left-in-india-statement-after-recent-election-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 10:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of statement by Jairus Banaji, Sukumar Muralidharan, Dilip Simeon, Satya Sivaraman and Rohini Hensman endorsed by 224 others. In a minor replay of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Indian media have been gloating at the defeat of the Left Front in West Bengal especially and have repeatedly suggested that this signals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=7949&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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