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		<title>The Great Indian Media Hoax Of Self-Regulation: Ruchi Gupta</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/17/the-great-indian-media-hoax-of-self-regulation-ruchi-gupta/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/17/the-great-indian-media-hoax-of-self-regulation-ruchi-gupta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 06:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RUCHI GUPTA [This post was initially published in the Times of India and removed from their site soon thereafter.] With a comfortable gap of time after the revelations of paid news, private treaties and the Radia tapes, the media is once again on the offensive to guard its independence. The trigger this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12772&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[UPDATED] Urgent Appeal to the Conscience of Nation on Koodankulam</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/17/an-urgent-appeal-to-the-conscience-of-nation-on-koodankulam/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/17/an-urgent-appeal-to-the-conscience-of-nation-on-koodankulam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Centre watch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement issued from the struggle against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant. This statement is a reflection of our collective frustration and instead of being sent to the Government, it will be presented before people of India on May 20th (6 pm) at the India Gate, New Delhi. It is already endorsed by prominent figures like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12726&#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>Memories of Cricket: Sameer Khan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/17/memories-of-cricket-sameer-khan/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/17/memories-of-cricket-sameer-khan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India-Pakistan cricket match]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sachin Tendulkar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cup Cricket]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAMEER KHAN My 8th standard final exams were nearing and they coincided with the1992 World Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan. It was the most important match for India, much more important than the final &#8211; defeating Pakistan was no less than winning the world cup.  As I sat studying in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12768&#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>When Laughter becomes a laughing matter: Statement by CSSSC Faculty Members on the Cartoon Controversy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/when-laughter-becomes-a-laughing-matter-statement-by-csssc-faculty-members-on-the-cartoon-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/when-laughter-becomes-a-laughing-matter-statement-by-csssc-faculty-members-on-the-cartoon-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Liang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cartoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shankar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Going by the ruckus surrounding cartoons these days, by the angry, at times violent, reactions of elected lawmakers against any kind of caricature of prominent personalities, it seems ‘laughter’ itself has become a laughing matter in contemporary India. And, this indeed is puzzling. The emerging trend of automatically equating lampooning with character assassination, of treating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12762&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please Sir, may I take a newspaper into my class?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/please-sir-may-i-take-a-newspaper-into-my-class/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/please-sir-may-i-take-a-newspaper-into-my-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ambedkar cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chandrabhan-Prasad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kapil Sibal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At last, the real anxieties lurking behind what has come to be called the &#8220;Ambedkar cartoon&#8221; controversy are out in the open. It is hideously clear by now that MPs &#8220;uniting across parties&#8221; are acting as one only to protect themselves from public scrutiny, debate and criticism. It turns out, as some of us suspected all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12740&#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>Good woman=Mother/Bad woman=Sex worker/Sex worker mother =?  Amrita Nandy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/good-womanmotherbad-womansex-workersex-worker-mother-amrita-nandy/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/good-womanmotherbad-womansex-workersex-worker-mother-amrita-nandy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anu Mokal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by AMRITA NANDY The math of this morality can be puzzling. Why should “sex worker mother” sound like an oxymoron to so many? It was Mother’s Day recently &#8211;  judgment time on who can be a mother, what makes a good mother. Time magazine’s provocative current cover shows a young Los Angeles mother [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12734&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Khalil Chishty is back home &#8211; three cheers for candle-light peaceniks</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/dr-khalil-chishty-is-back-home-three-cheers-for-candle-light-peaceniks/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/16/dr-khalil-chishty-is-back-home-three-cheers-for-candle-light-peaceniks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[India-Pakistan peace process]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 80 year old Pakistani virologist Dr Khalil Chishty just reached Pakistan. His son Tariq called me from Islamabad. &#8220;Sorry we couldn&#8217;t meet, it was all so rushed.&#8221; Tariq Chishty was worrying about getting a PIA ticket &#8211; President Zardari sent his special PAF plane to get them! Contrast this with the rank indifference with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12728&#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>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/15/ideal-journalists-and-a-womans-right-to-dignity-aswathy-senan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Non-resident Malayali women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice Chancellor Calicut University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12721</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/15/facts-and-fiction-creative-journalism-and-real-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12715</guid>
		<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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		<title>Cartoons All! Politicians and Self-Seekers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/cartoons-all-politicians-and-self-seekers/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/cartoons-all-politicians-and-self-seekers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Centre watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambedkar cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalit politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCERT textbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliament]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The uproar over what is being referred to as the &#8216;Ambedkar cartoon&#8217; in the class XI textbook prepared by NCERT first began over a month ago, that is to say, almost six years after the books have been in circulation, been taught and received high praise for their lively style and a critical pedagogical approach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12664&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Aditya</media:title>
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		<title>Life and its suburbs</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/life-and-its-suburbs/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/life-and-its-suburbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohail Hashmi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ismat Chughtai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saadat Hasan Manto]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The writings of Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto, perhaps two of the finest writers of the short story in any language, have begun to attract a much larger audience thanks to the many translations in English and other languages and transliterations in Hindi that have become available in recent years. All the translations are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12694&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Your problem was that you weren’t satisfied with mentioning one haram thing per story&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/your-problem-was-that-you-werent-satisfied-with-mentioning-one-haram-thing-per-story/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/your-problem-was-that-you-werent-satisfied-with-mentioning-one-haram-thing-per-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manto centennial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have read it by now but in case you haven&#8217;t, the best article on Manto&#8217;s birth centennial came from Mohammad Hanif: Your problem, Manto sir was that you weren’t satisfied with mentioning one haram thing per story. We do realise that in the world of short stories sometimes you have to describe bad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12690&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants a non-Brahmin sperm?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/who-wants-a-non-brahmin-sperm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Identities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that we needed any evidence of the prevalence of caste in India &#8211; even amongst the elites who like to pretend caste doesn&#8217;t exists when it comes to the reservation debate. The Times of India reports from Mumbai: In India, it&#8217;s well known that couples shopping for sperm demand both looks and brains. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12687&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have all the ghosts gone?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/where-have-all-the-ghosts-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/14/where-have-all-the-ghosts-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohail Hashmi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excavation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonial memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi Jinns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two friends and I had gone to interview an old lady born 90 years ago in 1922. We had hoped to jog her memory about events that she had seen unfold, and events that she had heard her parents and grandparents talk about. We were hoping to get a slice of history going back a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12571&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solidarity March: Justice for sex worker mothers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/12/solidarity-march-justice-for-sex-worker-mothers/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/12/solidarity-march-justice-for-sex-worker-mothers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 05:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children of sex workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitra Sanghatana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Press statement issued by Mitra Sanghatana (Collective of children of sex workers )and Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP), a collective of sex workers, Maharashtra. File photograph of members of SANGRAM and VAMP, collective of sex-workers, celebrating Dr Ambedkar Jayanti Women’s groups and progressive organisations in India are shocked that Ms. Anu Mokal, a pregnant sex worker in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12654&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion as a feminist issue &#8211; who decides, and what?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/11/abortion-as-a-feminist-issue-who-decides-and-what/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/11/abortion-as-a-feminist-issue-who-decides-and-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selective abortion of female foetuses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent post by Shohini Ghosh on the first episode of Satyameva Jayate has raised key questions around the complicated relationship between abortion as such and the selective abortion of female foetuses. This dilemma is one with which the women&#8217;s movement in India has been grappling since the late 1980&#8242;s. In this post, I would like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12650&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Teleology of Gilded Clinics: Mohan Rao</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/11/the-teleology-of-gilded-clinics-mohan-rao/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/11/the-teleology-of-gilded-clinics-mohan-rao/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public health and the global south]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siddhartha Mukherjee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by MOHAN RAO This book, a brilliant book, received extraordinary attention in India. You might disagree with me, but I believe we do not have a rich literary culture. This is of course fundamentally related to India’s caste structure, and that we haven’t changed that much since Independence. There is little public space [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12640&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>14 farmers committed suicide and the Times of India said no one died</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/11/14-farmers-committed-suicide-and-the-times-of-india-said-no-one-died/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/11/14-farmers-committed-suicide-and-the-times-of-india-said-no-one-died/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bt Cotton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers suicides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P Sainath]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times of India did not hear of any dead people because Monsanto paid for the taxi from the city to the village for its reporter. Or is that all that Monsanto paid for? P Sainath in The Hindu: The 2008 full-page panegyric in the TOI on Monsanto&#8217;s Bt Cotton rose from the dead soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12646&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned from &#8220;The Patriarchy&#8221;: Nilanjana S. Roy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/10/what-i-learned-from-the-patriarchy-nilanjana-s-roy/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/10/what-i-learned-from-the-patriarchy-nilanjana-s-roy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excavation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Stephen's College]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NILANJANA S. ROY Reading Saba Dewan&#8217;s post, on patriarchy and St Stephen&#8217;s, was a release. For years, I had struggled to make sense of two contradictory things—my years at college were some of the happiest of my life, but the institution that was held up to us as one of the best in India [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12634&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dil Se Nahin Dimaag Se Dekho &#8211; Thoughts on Satyamev Jayate Episode 1: Shohini Ghosh</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/09/dil-se-nahin-dimaag-se-dekho-thoughts-on-satyamev-jayate-episode-1-shohini-ghosh/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/09/dil-se-nahin-dimaag-se-dekho-thoughts-on-satyamev-jayate-episode-1-shohini-ghosh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 09:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Liang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aamir Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female foeticide]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SHOHINI GHOSH The first episode of Aamir Khan’s much publicized TV show Satyamev Jayate telecast on May 6, 2012 dealt with “Female Foeticide”. The following is a reflection of the show’s line of reasoning. Since only one out of 13 episodes has been telecast, what follows should not be taken as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12627&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family chronicles</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/08/family-chronicles/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/08/family-chronicles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Frontiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence-Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India-Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=12623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamal Kidwai tells the (continuing) story of the Partition through family memories: As children we would invariably be divided into Pakistani and Hindustani groups. We would have long arguments about who would win the next war, whether Imran Khan was a better all-round cricketer than Kapil Dev; we would even divide ourselves into Indian and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12623&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of chick charts, hen charts and other such women&#8217;s stories: Saba Dewan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/08/st-stephens-college-the-class-of-85-saba-dewan/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/08/st-stephens-college-the-class-of-85-saba-dewan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excavation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriarchy in educational institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Stephen's College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Hostels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SABA DEWAN (For Vrinda, Uma, Sukhpreet, Dipta and all of us who found strength in each other to raise our voices in protest…)  A few months back I visited St. Stephen’s College in Delhi University for a screening organized by the students there of my film, ‘The Other Song.’ It was my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12614&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court judgment on Pathribal case a lost opportunity: Warisha Farasat</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/08/supreme-court-judgment-on-pathribal-case-a-lost-opportunity-warisha-farasat/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/08/supreme-court-judgment-on-pathribal-case-a-lost-opportunity-warisha-farasat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by WARISHA FARASAT The recent Supreme Court judgment on the Pathribal case is a lost opportunity. In the Pathribal encounter killing, five innocent civilians were picked up and killed in a staged encounter by the 7th Rashtriya Rifle of the army. At the time, the then Union Home Minister L.K. Advani had gone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12612&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koodankulam &#8211; Anti-nuclear Struggle Continues: Deepa Rajkumar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/07/koodankulam-anti-nuclear-struggle-continues-deepa-rajkumar/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/07/koodankulam-anti-nuclear-struggle-continues-deepa-rajkumar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 06:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[koodankulam protests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Japan shut down its last reactor, the Koodankulam project is to go critical in ten days.  Because Japan depends on local consensus for its nuclear decisions, unlike the World&#8217;s Largest Democracy, the views of Japanese people counts for something. Thousands of Japanese marched in celebrations to celebrate  the switching off of the last of Japan&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12596&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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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		<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>How Not To Educate A Poor Child</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/04/how-not-to-educate-a-poor-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter   To The Editor In Chief The Hindustan Times We were attracted by the announcement made by the Hindustan Times that it intends to spend 5 Paisa earned from the sale of each copy on educating the children of India. It did not however tell us how it intends to spend this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12591&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Condemn the Arrest of Advocate Shanavas by “Hi-tech Cell”!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/04/condemn-the-arrest-of-advocate-shanavas-by-hi-tech-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This statement has been released by Manisha Sethi, Adeel Mehdi, Ahmed Sohaib, Sanghamitra Misra and others for  JAMIA TEACHERS&#8217; SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION Demand his immediate release! The undersigned condemn in strongest terms the arrest of Advocate Shanavas, a leading human rights activist of Kerala. Advocate Shanavas, who lives and practices in Trivandrum, was arrested on 1st [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12588&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi 1803-2012: A Brief Biography</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/03/ten-in-one-delhi-1803-2012-5-2/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/05/03/ten-in-one-delhi-1803-2012-5-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohail Hashmi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delhi, Or Dilli has been a city and a capital for a long time and even when it was not the capital, during the Lodi and early Mughal period, and later between 1858 and 1911, it continued to be an important city. We are of course talking of what is historically established and not of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12584&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>…and now Judicial Impunity?: JKCCS</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/02/and-now-judicial-impunity-jkccs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the JAMMU KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY 2 May 2012: The recent Supreme Court judgment in the Pathribal case is very disappointing. Fake encounters, along with various other human rights violations, have been a reality for the people of Jammu and Kashmir over the last twenty two years. In 2008, according to media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12565&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pathribal ruling a setback for justice in Jammu and Kashmir: Amnesty International</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/05/02/pathribal-ruling-a-setback-for-justice-in-jammu-and-kashmir-amnesty-international/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release comes from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 1 May 2012 Special powers that allow India’s armed forces suspected of involvement in extra-judicial killings to sidestep the civilian courts have been reinforced in a disappointing court ruling over the notorious killings of five Kashmiri civilians 12 years ago. India’s Supreme Court has contradicted a reported statement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&#038;blog=2985212&#038;post=12563&#038;subd=kafilabackup&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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