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		<title>Foregrounding Insult: Gopal Guru</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/06/02/foregrounding-insult-gopal-guru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GOPAL GURU Let me at the very beginning make it clear that I do not want to discuss insult in the context of the recent cartoon. Although I think that a progressive interpretation of that recent cartoon may not lead to the feeling of insult and hurt. I would like to discuss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=13017&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Nivedita Menon</media:title>
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		<title>&#8220;The more they censor the internet the bigger we become&#8221; &#8211; An interview of Anonymous India</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/06/01/the-more-they-censor-the-internet-the-bigger-we-become-an-interview-of-anonymous-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Centre watch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=13013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In which I interview &#8220;Anonymous India&#8221; who have organised a massive protest against internet censorship across 11 Indian cities on 9 June. Some say such attacks (hacking and defacement of Web sites) could be used by the political class to actually strengthen their argument in favour of control and regulation of the Internet. What do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=13013&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KK Aziz and the Coffee House of Lahore: Chris Moffat</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/06/01/kk-aziz-and-the-coffee-house-of-lahore-chris-moffat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 20:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by CHRIS MOFFAT  During a recent trip to Lahore, I visited the Sang-e-Meel bookshop on Lower Mall Road in search of K.K. Aziz’s The Coffee House of Lahore. Happily, the store was well stocked with the late historian’s final work, and I spent the afternoon reading the text at a table outside the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=13000&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ambedkar’s Cartoon and the Caste question: Rajkumar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/31/ambedkars-cartoon-and-the-caste-question-rajkumar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 10:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Violence-Conflict]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAJKUMAR A harrowing monologue is in vogue in the popular media and academic forums apropos a cartoon of Dr. Ambedkar in a Political Science textbook prepared by NCERT for its Class XI students. Apparently, in the cartoon, Ambedkar is depicted being whipped by Jawaharlal Nehru for delaying the framing of the constitution. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12996&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humiliation condemned to remain ‘Hurt’ &#8211; Notes from a talk by Gopal Guru: Parth Pratim Shil &amp; Ankita Pandey</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/31/humiliation-condemned-to-remain-hurt-notes-from-a-talk-by-gopal-guru-parth-pratim-shil-ankita-pandey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 05:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by PARTH PRATIM SHIL and ANKITA PANDEY Unni [a cartoon character] asks: “Am I just a figurehead or am I asking real questions? Did the textbook writers give me power to ask questions I wish to ask or am I asking questions they have in their mind?” [Page 85, Chapter 4: Executive, Indian Constitution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12819&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mangoes and me</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/30/mangoes-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohail Hashmi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Countryside]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indian summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mangoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rataul mangoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zahoor Siddiqi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My childhood memories are so deeply intertwined with mango eating that it is difficult to separate the two. One reason for this is probably because the season of mangoes and the summer breaks in school coincided. We took our last exam and the schools closed their doors, to reopen after two and a half months. Educationists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12987&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalit organisations demand NAC to recommend SCP/TSP legislation</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/30/dalit-organisations-demand-nac-to-recommend-scptsp-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/30/dalit-organisations-demand-nac-to-recommend-scptsp-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dalits and the Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release comes from the SC/ST BUDGET ADHIKAR ANDOLAN  The SC/ST Budget Adhikar Andolan welcomes the draft recommendations of the NAC to the GOI. However, it is very disappointing that the National Advisory Council (NAC) has not suggested legislation for SCSP and TSP. It is a known fact that without legislation, accountability would not be possible, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12984&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
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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>Produce Fasih Mahmood before an Indian Court, NOW: JTSA</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/28/produce-fasih-mahmood-before-an-indian-court-now-jtsa/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/28/produce-fasih-mahmood-before-an-indian-court-now-jtsa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 11:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Centre watch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the JAMIA TEACHERS’ SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION It has been over two weeks that Fasih Mahmood was practically disappeared from his residence in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an engineer. On 13 May, Sunday, Mahmood was taken away by a group of Indian and Arab men, all in civil dress, and their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12968&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oppressing the teacher, democratic style</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/28/oppressing-the-teacher-democratic-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 11:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[( In 2006 the Parliament had debated and lambasted  Hindi NCERT textbooks prepared as part of the NCF, 2005 process . Our Parliamentarians were then offended  by Premchand, Pandey Bechan Sharma Urg, Dhoomil, M. F. Husein,  Avtar Singh Pash and Omprakash Valmiki. The argument of hurt sentiments had united political parties from left to right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12965&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net Loss: Sajan Venniyoor</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/28/net-loss-sajan-venniyoor/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/28/net-loss-sajan-venniyoor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 10:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAJAN VENNIYOOR Net: noun, verb. 1. a contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or  other animals 2. anything serving to catch or ensnare The other day, in a Parliamentary debate on Internet Rules 2011, the leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said something so absurd that for a moment I thought he had joined the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12886&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I have a beef with you: Unnamati Syama Sundar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/27/i-have-a-beef-with-you-unnamati-syama-sundar/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/27/i-have-a-beef-with-you-unnamati-syama-sundar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 18:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post by UNNAMATI SYAMA SUNDAR is a cartoon From Kafila archives: Resisting Culinary Fascism: Nabanipa Bhattacharjee NWMI Condemns The Violent Abuse Of Meena Kandasamy &#160; Filed under: Bad ideas, Debates, Identities, Right watch Tagged: beef, cartoons, Dalits, manual scavenging<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12902&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jaya Hey to Jai Ho to Jayate: Sumana Roy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/27/jaya-hey-to-jai-ho-to-jayate-sumana-roy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 04:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SUMANA ROY I watch Satyamev Jayate on Doordarshan. The word ‘National’ below the Doordarshan logo seems rather appropriate for Aamir Khan’s show about issues of mass frustration. In one of the many interviews that prefaced the airing of his show, the kind of airgun shooting that now heralds any and every kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12874&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>’बिगड़ैल बच्चे की खोज में’: हिमांशु पंड्या</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/27/%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%97%e0%a4%a1%e0%a4%bc%e0%a5%88%e0%a4%b2-%e0%a4%ac%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%96%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%9c-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%82/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 03:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;क्या आपको इस बात का अहसास है कि ताकाहाशी को &#8216;तुम्हारी पूँछ तो नहीं है?&#8217; पूछने पर कैसा लगा होगा&#8221; बच्चे शिक्षिका का जवाब नहीं सुन पाए. उस समय तोत्तो चान यह नहीं समझ पायी कि पूंछ वाली बात से हेडमास्टर साहब इतना नाराज़ क्यों हुए होंगे क्योंकि अगर कोई उससे यह पूछता कि तोत्तो [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12959&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India asks Google to remove 2 items every 3 days</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/27/india-asks-google-to-remove-2-items-every-3-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s just released fourth biannual Transparency Report says that between January and June 2011, India asked it to remove 358 different items from various Google-owned web services such as Orkut and YouTube. Google complied in 51% cases. The requests were made by various central and state government departments through 68 different requests. The fourth such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12938&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Updated) List of websites blocked in India</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/26/list-of-websites-blocked-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given below is a list of websites blocked in India by one or more Internet Service Providers. This list was hacked from Reliance servers by the hacker group ANONYMOUS, which claimed in a web press conference that while most of this list of 434 is blocked as a result of government or court orders, some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12915&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A democratic process in Pakistan: Abdullah Zaidi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/26/a-democratic-process-in-pakistan-abdullah-zaidi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 13:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ABDULLAH ZAIDI In a way, the story of Pakistan is the story of a centralised state manipulating the provinces. It is also the story of an overgrown and overfed military destabilising all political forces that posed a challenge to its narrative. It is also the story of institutions wrestling for their due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12895&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forging a Nepal for all its peoples</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/26/forging-a-nepal-for-all-its-peoples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 13:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>prashantjha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the constitutional endgame approaches, Nepal is witnessing its most fierce and polarised political debate since the process to transform the state began with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2006. Strikingly, it is not a battle between political parties, but different social groups. This is the battle over the nature of federalism, the boundaries of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12898&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Hurriyat divorcing democracy and freedom?: Gowhar Geelani</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/25/is-the-hurriyat-divorcing-democracy-and-freedom-gowhar-geelani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GOWHAR GEELANI By any stretch of imagination, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference [APHC] has ceased to be an amalgam of ‘all parties’. It seems that this conglomerate of several pro-freedom political, social and religious parties is actually being run by a chosen few in a dictatorial manner. It is no secret now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12865&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If ‘temporary’ meant special, what would ‘special’ mean?: Gazala Peer</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/25/if-temporary-meant-special-what-would-special-mean-gazala-peer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GAZALA PEER On 13, October 2010 a team of interlocutors was appointed by the Government of India to hold dialogue with all the sections of the society in Jammu and Kashmir. The team of interlocutors consisted of journalist Dileep Padgonkar, educationist Radha Kumar and the former Information Commissioner M. M. Ansari. After almost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12883&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violence and Laughter: Ajay Skaria on the Ambedkar cartoon controversy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/25/violence-and-laughter-ajay-skaria-on-the-ambedkar-cartoon-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by AJAY SKARIA Earlier this month, I signed, with some disquiet, onto this petition. Initiated by some members of the CHS at JNU, the petition protests against the withdrawal, in the wake of the cartoon controversy, of all NCERT Political Science textbooks, and seeks to defend the ‘gains of the new National Curriculum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12880&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This, that and other cartoons: Prabhat Kumar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/24/this-that-and-other-cartoons-prabhat-kumar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravikant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by PRABHAT KUMAR I wish to intervene in the ruckus over usage of Shankar’s cartoon in the NCERT’s political science text book. At the outset I want to clarify my personal impression (although inconsequential!) of the book and the cartoon therein. I feel the textbook in general is pedagogically superior to the previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12867&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalits in Hindurashtra &#8211; Time for another sadbhavna fast Modiji!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/24/dalits-in-hindurashtra-time-for-another-sadbhavna-fast-modiji/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;27 of the 30 complaints that were addressed to the commission spoke of indifference of police officials towards dalits.These issues were raised immediately after NHRC chairman KG Balakrishnan praised status of scheduled castes (SC) in Gujarat. He said the state&#8217;s schemes for development of the marginalised are working well and penetration of education among scheduled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12860&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Herrings, Red Rags and Red Flags &#8211; Once More on the Cartoon Controversy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/23/red-herrings-red-rags-and-red-flags-once-more-on-the-cartoon-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent article by Prabhat Patnaik, the controversy over the &#8216;Ambedkar cartoon&#8217; issue has now moved into a different terrain. In this important statement, Prabhat undertakes the task of pointing out the numerous red herrings that have entered into the debate. These include  &#8217;freedom of expression&#8217; and &#8216;sense of humour&#8217; and the question of  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12835&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tinker, tailor, soldier, coup-maker: Jyoti Rahman</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/22/tinker-tailor-soldier-coup-maker-jyoti-rahman/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/22/tinker-tailor-soldier-coup-maker-jyoti-rahman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by JYOTI RAHMAN The country of Bengal is a land where, owing to the climate&#8217;s favouring the base, the dust of dissension is always rising &#8211; so said the Mughal court chronicler Abul Fazl in the 16th century. Four hundred years later, the People&#8217;s Republic of Bangladesh has been a country where the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12823&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Essar, Teamwork Productions and the Chhattisgarh government changed the lives of Dantewada&#8217;s children</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/21/how-essar-teamwork-productions-and-the-chhattisgarh-government-changed-the-lives-of-dantewadas-children/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/21/how-essar-teamwork-productions-and-the-chhattisgarh-government-changed-the-lives-of-dantewadas-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any moment now I expect India&#8217;s litfest mafiosi to describe this article on the &#8216;Essar Kahani Utsav&#8217; by Akshay Pathak as an &#8216;attack on free speech&#8217;: Money was not the only thing coloured there. Long pieces of cloth in different colours hanging outside the venue— in classic Teamwork Productions style (the event management company organising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12816&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Appeal on Koodankulam Becomes a Rallying Point for Solidarity Actions Across India</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/21/national-appeal-on-koodankulam-becomes-a-rallying-point-for-solidarity-actions-across-india/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/21/national-appeal-on-koodankulam-becomes-a-rallying-point-for-solidarity-actions-across-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Urgent Appeal to the Conscience of the Nation on Koodankulam&#8221; open for signatures on DiaNuke.org was released yesterday, May 20th,  in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Concerned people and activists are planning release events and readings of the appeal India Gate, Delhi in Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and other cities in coming weeks. Grassroots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12811&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Anti-Politics of Murder</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/20/the-anti-politics-of-murder/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/20/the-anti-politics-of-murder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12807</guid>
		<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>In Defense of Critical Pedagogy: A Petition</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/19/in-defense-of-critical-pedagogy-a-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/19/in-defense-of-critical-pedagogy-a-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 06:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a petition initiated by a group of scholars who have been centrally involved in the debate on pedagogy and the writing of textbooks that followed National Currriculum Framework 2005 We have been watching with deep dismay the events as they have unfolded on the floor of the Indian Parliament and outside. Uproar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12805&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>पाठ्यपुस्तक का संघर्ष </title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/19/%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%aa%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%b8%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%95-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%98%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[संसद राजनीति और लोकतंत्र पर स्कूली किताबों में कार्टून नहीं चाहती है. इस मसले को लेकर संसद के दोनों ही सदनों में सारे राजनीतिक दलों में अभूतपूर्व मतैक्य देखा  गया. एक राजनीतिक  दल, जिसका नाम नेशनल कान्फरेंस है, इस दमनकारी बहुमत से अलग स्वर में बोलने की कोशिश करता रह गया, उसे क्रूर बहुमत ने बोलने नहीं दिया. आखिर वह एक बहुत छोटे से [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12798&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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