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		<title>Kerala apologizes for Sreesanth: Sajan Venniyoor</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/18/kerala-apologizes-for-sreesanth-sajan-venniyoor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 04:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a Guest post by our sports correspondent, SAJAN VENNIYOOR:  In an unprecedented gesture, the state of Kerala has apologized for what it calls “the darkest chapter in our history”, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth. In the face of overwhelming criticism that it did nothing to prevent Sreesanth, the state’s Chief Minister and Governor, in a joint [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18544&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India needs a third imagination</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/18/india-needs-a-third-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a brilliant column in the The Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (with whom I have much to disagree about reservations) calls the bluff of the &#8220;national&#8221; parties who want Indian voters to be wary of the &#8216;instability&#8217; and impossibility of a third front coalition government. This argument, strangely posing itself in a nationalist tone, is unfortunately [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18524&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen-Students and the University: Sanjay Kumar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autonomous subjectivity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Body and Heart” (IMBH) courses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The proposed 4-year undergraduate degree programme of the Delhi University is being pushed through in undue haste without adequate debate and public discussion. The special emphasis on Foundation and Integrating Mind, Body and Heart courses, controversial components of the 4-year scheme, is indicative of an extra-academic zeal. The pedagogical thinking behind these courses is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18517&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Education and Democracy in India: Preeti Chauhan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Preeti Chauhan Now that the cat is out of the bag and the four year undergraduate programme(FYUP) is being criticized and thereby being discussed threadbare by some of the leading scholars of the country, one needs to also think of its relationship with the current state of democracy in India. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18500&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burma &#8211; Lest We Don&#8217;t See, A Genocide Is In The Making: Bonojit Hussain</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/16/burma-lest-we-dont-see-a-genocide-is-in-the-making-guest-post-by-bonojit-hussain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We have to ask ourselves whether we may have over-romanticized its (Burmese pro-democracy movement within and outside of Burma) battles against the junta as a broader quest to bring pure, universal human rights to Burma, when in fact we had little evidence of a wholesale commitment to the principle of tolerance.” – Francis Wade (Thailand based [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18482&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarabjit, Sanaullah, you and me</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/14/sarabjit-sanaullah-you-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Sarabjit Singh&#8217;s brave lawyer Awais Sheikh in Delhi some months ago, where his book was released. He was very confident Sarabjit wouldn&#8217;t be hanged. As was Justice (Retd.) Katju, who launched the book. Justice Katju said there was no point campaigning for Sarabjit&#8217;s release until the Pakistan elections were over. I got a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18472&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asghar Ali Engineer (1939-2013)</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/14/asghar-ali-engineer-1939-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An obituary by ZAHIR JANMOHAMED: I first met Asghar Ali Engineer in January 2002 in Mumbai. I was a fellow with the America India Foundation and a few weeks later I would be posted to work with an NGO in Ahmedabad. A few minutes before his presentation, I noticed him standing off to the side [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18467&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hefazat-e-Jamaat, Nothing Else : On the Recent Developments in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/14/hefazat-e-jamaat-nothing-else-on-the-recent-developments-in-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=18451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    &#8220;Talibaner aar ek naam – hefazat-e-Islam!&#8221; (Another name for Taliban, Hefazat-e-Islam)                - Slogan raised at Shahbagh square   To such a degree has Religion fuelled conflict, complicated politics, retarded social development and impaired human relations across the world, that one is often tempted to propose that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18451&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science and Modernity : Ravi Sinha</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/12/science-and-modernity-guest-post-by-ravi-sinha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 04:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAVI SINHA Science and modernity are widely considered among the most celebrated features of contemporary human civilization. Increasingly they are taken as the defining elements that distinguish our times from the times gone by. At such a sweeping level, there can be many other ways to characterize the contemporary. One can, for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18443&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Political Parties of Pakistan: Saim Saeed</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/11/the-political-parties-of-pakistan-saim-saeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAIM SAEED: Democracy in South Asia is its own animal, and has little resemblance with its counterparts in the United States and elsewhere. Gone are any kind of faultlines between liberals and conservatives, ideologies and the like; “Social Democrats” means little, and Greens, Communists and Freedom, even less. A widely held view [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18435&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Pakistani soldier loads ballot boxes into a van in Rawalpindi. Authorities hope the app, combined with a fully revised voter list and an unprecedented level of public scrutiny, will help ensure the election will be the cleanest ever. Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images</media:title>
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		<title>Two days in the Srinagar High Court: Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/10/two-days-in-the-srinagar-high-court-sreemoyi-nandini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by SHRIMOYEE NANDINI GHOSH Impressions of the Hearing of the Public Interest Petition on the Mass Rapes at  Kunan Poshpora Day 1: 7th May 2013: I happen to be in Srinagar. I hear through a friend that a Public Interest Petition has been filed by a group of fifty odd [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18420&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to &#8216;family&#8217; at CDS &#8211; How to push false pride under the carpet! Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/10/back-to-family-at-cds-how-to-push-false-pride-under-the-carpet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Anonymous I went to the CDS campus today hearing of the great tumult there, news of which has been appearing off and on in the press. I was just curious. I know personally one of the SEWA ladies; she told me her version of events. The students, of  course, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18385&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naya Pakistan, an old fable: Ayesha Siddiqa</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/10/naya-pakistan-an-old-fable-ayesha-siddiqa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by AYESHA SIDDIQA: The renowned television anchor Quatrina Hosain was in tears. A day after the incident of her being sexually assaulted at a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) jalsa by party workers in Wah Cantonement, she talked about how the bruises may heal but not her emotional scars. She was covering election rallies and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18368&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sinful liberals and the war against jihadi terror: Manisha Sethi responds to Praveen Swami</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/09/sinful-liberals-and-the-war-against-jihadi-terror-manisha-sethi-responds-to-praveen-swami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by MANISHA SETHI: It has been seven months since the Jamia Teachers&#8217; Solidarity Association brought out its report, Framed, Damned, Acquitted, chronicling in detail how the Delhi Police’s Special Cell implicated innocents – former militants, police informers, businessmen, and just ordinary, unlucky men – as terrorists. It is one of the few documents [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18339&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gandhi&#8217;s fourth monkey: Suvaid Yaseen</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/08/gandhis-fourth-monkey-suvaid-yaseen/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/08/gandhis-fourth-monkey-suvaid-yaseen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SUVAID YASEEN: Incredible India is a land of promises. Amnesia and half narratives. Selective remembrance and deliberate forgetting. The national interest is incredibly important. And everything is allowed in this war. Gandhi’s – the father of the nation &#8211; maxim of bura mat kaho, bura mat suno, bura mat dekho (don’t say [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18360&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On higher education in India: Saattvic responds to Thane Richard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 08:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by SAATTVIC Hi Thane, I recently read your piece for Kafila, which was subsequently reproduced in part in the Hindu. I studied economics there as well, batch of 2006. I subsequently went on to read for an MPhil in Economics at Oxford. Good on you for writing that piece. It [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18344&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partha Chatterjee on Subaltern Studies, Marxism and Vivek Chibber</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/07/partha-chatterjee-on-subaltern-studies-marxism-and-vivek-chhibber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent Historical Materialism conference held in Delhi from April 3-5, a panel was organized with great fanfare - an official panel by the HM editors &#8211; around Vivek Chibber&#8217;s new book Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital. This panel was billed to be a decisive refutation of Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial theory, not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18326&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Savar Tragedy: Solution in Solidarity: Navine Murshid</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/07/savar-tragedy-solution-in-solidarity-navine-murshid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Navine Murshid The grief surrounding the collapse is unimaginable with more than 500 dead and hudrends still missing. It is clear that the accident was a culmination of the alignment of corruption, greed, inefficiency, and a bid to cut costs, at every level from acquiring lands through illegal means, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18322&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Golchakkar of Premier Institutions: St. Stephen&#8217;s College as a Public Concern: N P Ashley</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/06/the-golchakkar-of-premier-institutions-st-stephens-college-as-a-public-concern-n-p-ashley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by N P Ashley: For a teacher, it feels strange to defend one&#8217;s workplace in public against the experiential remarks of an individual who happens to be in some ex-student capacity in the same college. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t like X&#8217;s classes&#8221; or &#8220;I found academic excellence in St. Stephen&#8217;s College a myth&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18306&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shahbag no imperialist conspiracy, Mr Umari</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/06/shahbagh-no-imperialist-conspiracy-mr-umari/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/06/shahbagh-no-imperialist-conspiracy-mr-umari/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 07:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photograph : Martyr Ahmed Rajib Haider GUWAHATI: The echo of the Shahbag protest in Bangladesh was heard about 200 miles away here on Sunday with citizens, under the banner of Janamat, expressing solidarity with protesters in that country. Janamat, a Guwahati-based socio-cultural body which organised the solidarity meet here, said that the issue raised by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18292&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students vs. SEWA or Dalit Student vs. Dalit Women Workers? Student ‘Politics’ on CDS Campus: Praveena Kodoth, J Devika, Sonia George</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/students-vs-sewa-or-dalit-student-vs-dalit-women-workers-student-politics-on-cds-campus-praveena-kodoth-j-devika-sonia-george/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/students-vs-sewa-or-dalit-student-vs-dalit-women-workers-student-politics-on-cds-campus-praveena-kodoth-j-devika-sonia-george/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 15:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been reports in the media of an agitation by students of the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram,  because a fellow student was asked to leave the hostel  to facilitate an investigation of a complaint against him by the Self Employed Women’s Association, which runs the cafeteria on campus.  These reports and some exchanges [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18264&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Stock of the new Anti Rape law: Madhu Mehra</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/taking-stock-of-the-new-anti-rape-law-madhu-mehra/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/taking-stock-of-the-new-anti-rape-law-madhu-mehra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 09:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by MADHU MEHRA: The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, more popularly called the Anti-rape Bill, is now law. The outrage following the homicidal gang rape in Delhi unleashed events that lent force to the longstanding demand by the women’s movement for comprehensive reform of laws relating to sexual assault. These demands [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18261&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Security Bill &#8211; MPs clueless: Ankita Aggarwal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/food-security-bill-mps-clueless-ankita-aggarwal/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/food-security-bill-mps-clueless-ankita-aggarwal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 04:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is guest post by ANKITA AGGARWAL: Last week a group of about fifteen of us (students who have been working on the right to food in various capacities) met Members of Parliament to discuss the amended National Food Security Bill and how it can be improved. We knocked on the doors of more than a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18257&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Angry Young Students and Education in India &#8211; A Response to Thane Richard: Aritra Chatterjee</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/of-angry-young-students-and-education-in-india-a-response-to-thane-richard-aritra-chatterjee/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/05/of-angry-young-students-and-education-in-india-a-response-to-thane-richard-aritra-chatterjee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 04:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by ARITRA CHATTERJEE: In his response to the article by some students of St. Stephen’s College, Thane Richard has raised a set of questions about the college, about the students participating in the present movement, about education in India and students’ voice in shaping education. He is critical about what he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18254&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let us declare that a state of war exists</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/04/let-us-declare-that-a-state-of-war-exists/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/04/let-us-declare-that-a-state-of-war-exists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 13:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites.&#8221; Those are not the words of a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), though the film has [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18244&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joint statement after the sixth meeting of the India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/04/joint-statement-after-the-sixth-meeting-of-the-india-pakistan-judicial-committee-on-prisoners-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/04/joint-statement-after-the-sixth-meeting-of-the-india-pakistan-judicial-committee-on-prisoners-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 12:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This statement was issued yesterday by the JOINT INDIA-PAKISTAN JUDICIAL COMMITTEE ON PRISONERS May 03, 2013 Members of the India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners visited Pakistani Jails in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore from April 26-May 1, 2013. The members of the Committee, Justice (Retd.) Mr A.S Gill and Justice (Retd) Mr. M.A Khan from the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18247&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evicting the Gandhians: Justin Podur interviews Himanshu Kumar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian activist who, together with his wife, ran the Vanvasi Chetana Ashram in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh for 22 years. He learned the local adivasi language (Gondi) and worked through the Ashram to help adivasis access their rights under the law. Starting in 2005, during the murderous Salwa Judum campaigns of vigilante groups [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18238&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there anything like ‘copying’ fairly?: Rajshree Chandra</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/is-there-anything-like-copying-fairly-rajshree-chandra/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/is-there-anything-like-copying-fairly-rajshree-chandra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAJSHREE CHANDRA: In the backdrop of the on going battle in the Delhi High Court, between publishers (OUP, CUP and Taylor and Francis) and Rameshwari photocopiers-Delhi University (next hearing 8th May, 2013), there are two perspectives to which attention needs to be drawn. The first, of course, is a legal one which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18234&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Rediff Could Have Done to Support Kavita Krishnan Against Rape Threats: Anja Kovacs</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/02/rediff-and-rape-threats-what-rediff-could-have-done-to-support-kavita-krishnan-target-of-online-abuse-anja-kovacs/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2013/05/02/rediff-and-rape-threats-what-rediff-could-have-done-to-support-kavita-krishnan-target-of-online-abuse-anja-kovacs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 02:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ANJA KOVACS: Imagine a TV station inviting a guest and giving the audience the opportunity to freely ask questions, with the guest deciding which questions to respond to. Imagine a member of audience then threatening the guest with rape, and the TV station&#8217;s representative responding by simply passing on the microphone to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18214&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islamo-fascists in Bangladesh &#8211; Whose side are you on?: Javed Anand</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2013/05/01/islamo-fascists-in-bangladesh-whose-side-are-you-on-by-javed-anand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Badr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awami League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Guest post by JAVED ANAND [This piece by Javed Anand  was sent to a major daily but not published for undisclosed reasons] Leaders and the led from a host of rightwing Indian Muslim organisations – Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JEI), All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, All India Milli Council, All Bengal Minority Youth Federation, West Bengal Sunnat Al [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=18205&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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