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		<title>Some pictures from Occupy the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; OCCUPY THE WORLD Filed under: Bad ideas, Capitalism Tagged: occupy the world, Occupy Wall Street<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11548&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Urdu Nationalism in Pakistan: Raza Rumi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/08/rethinking-urdu-nationalism-in-pakistan-raza-rumi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAZA RUMI Urdu has been a controversial language in Pakistan despite its official and holy status. The Bengalis rejected it way back in the 1940s when Jinnah, advised by a bureaucracy, with imperial moorings declared in that it would be the official language. Subsequently, Sindhis, Baloch and Pashtuns have also resisted the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11542&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compounding the Error &#8211; Marks inflation at Delhi University: Shobhit Mahajan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/08/compounding-the-error-marks-inflation-at-delhi-university-shobhit-mahajan/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/02/08/compounding-the-error-marks-inflation-at-delhi-university-shobhit-mahajan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Delhi University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semesterization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SHOBHIT MAHAJAN In politics, policy making or indeed any interaction with the larger world, one notices a distinct characteristic &#8211; one makes a decision, then facts or circumstances make it obvious that it was a wrong or bad one.  And what does one do? In most cases, one continues to take further [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11540&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Bend</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/08/at-the-bend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Husain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Faiz Ahmad Faiz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right here at the bend Of the line you just read The line read above Or imagined you read At the bend of that line The line you read above (You scroll up the memory Which line, which line it could be) You don’t wish to miss the bend But before the bend There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11530&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Four Corners of the Law and the Diggy Palace: Faiz Ullah</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/07/beyond-the-four-corners-of-the-law-the-diggy-palacefaiz-ullah-on-jlf-symbiosis-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaipur Literature Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanjay Kak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by FAIZ ULLAH I. Highstreet Phoenix, an upscale shopping mall, rose from the ashes of Lower Parel’s semi-functional Phoenix Mills in the late nineties’ Bombay. It has since successfully emerged as one of the most popular shopping and leisure destinations for the city’s affluent set. Highstreet Phoenix is just one of the many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11519&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>मायावती जी के मुख्यमंत्रित्व काल का एक संक्षिप्त विवरण: राम कुमार</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post by RAM KUMAR is a review of five years of Mayawati&#8217;s administration in Uttar Pradesh. An English translation has appeared in Fountain Ink magazine, here. मुख्यमंत्री मायावती जी को 2007 में मिला स्पष्ट जनादेश  महज मुलायम सिंह यादव के खिलाफ एन्टी-इनकमवंसी फैक्टर ही नहीं था, बलिक अराजकता और गुंडागर्दी के खिलाफ भी [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11512&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Election in Sarvajan Samaj</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/05/a-election-in-sarvajan-samaj/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/02/05/a-election-in-sarvajan-samaj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photograph was taken by Salman Usmani in Ganguali village in Unnao near Lucknow, in early January. On the left is Prabhat Pandey and on the right, Ram Khilawan. Pandey is a Brahmin and Khilawan a Dalit. They&#8217;re the BSP&#8217;s men in this village, responsible for urging Brahmins and Dalits to vote for the BSP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11498&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Analysis of the Independence Day Speech by President Rajapaksa</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/04/a-quick-analysis-of-the-independence-day-speech-by-president-rajapaksa/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/02/04/a-quick-analysis-of-the-independence-day-speech-by-president-rajapaksa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahilan Kadirgamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There is great chaos under heaven – the situation is excellent.” Mao Zedong quoted by Slavoj Zizek a year ago amidst the revolt against Mubarak in Egypt. Given recent developments, I am jotting down a quick analysis of the positions, concerns and silences in President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Independence Day speech today. The tone and substance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11487&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Thirsty Stay Stupid</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/03/stay-thirsty-stay-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With due apologies to Steve Jobs, how does one begin to respond to this latest bit of inanity from Coca Cola? &#160; Filed under: Capitalism Tagged: advertising, Coca Cola, Coke, Steve Jobs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11483&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Place of Dissent in the Campus: Akshath Jitendranath</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/03/the-place-of-dissent-in-the-campusakshath-jitendranath-writes-from-symbiosis-university-pune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by AKSHATH JITENDRANATH, student at Symbiosis International University, Pune, where a screening of &#8216;Jahsn-e-Azadi&#8217; by Sanjay Kak was cancelled under pressure from right-wing groups and the Pune Police. The university campus is where nascent opinion moulds itself into ideological shape. Care must be taken to surround the student with ideologies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11476&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aapka poora naam kya hai?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/02/aapka-poora-naam-kya-hai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cast in this short film: Sharma- Rajesh, Mishra- Nishant, Choudhury- Roshan, Dalit- Dinamani Camera- Babita, Script and Direction- Dinamani (dina_bhim@yahoo.co.in). Special thanks to Anoop for making the office available for the shoot. Filed under: Everyday Life, Identities, Language Tagged: Caste discrimination, Dalits, Dalits in public offices, Discrimination against Dalits, Indian surnames, reservations<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11470&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Stinkcity of Thiruvananthapuram</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/02/01/letter-from-the-stinkcity-of-thiruvananthapuram/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/02/01/letter-from-the-stinkcity-of-thiruvananthapuram/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Respected development tourists, leftists and scholars from the West who have been coming here seeking your heterotopia, welcome to the city of Thiruvananthapuram. Yes, you are here to see that Kerala which gives you relief from the relentless decline of the left in your part of the world.You have been honouring us with such visits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11465&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The untold stories of a political process</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/31/the-untold-stories-of-a-political-process/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/31/the-untold-stories-of-a-political-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a month before the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the wedding of a top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat’s daughter at the Taj Hotel in Lucknow presented senior journalists invited from Delhi with an opportunity to interact with the state’s leading bureaucrats—who are, in Chief Minister Mayawati’s reign, more important than politicians. For a select few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11401&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>उत्तर प्रदेश चुनाव 2012 और पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/31/%e0%a4%89%e0%a4%a4%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%aa%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%b6-%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%a8%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b5-2012-%e0%a4%94%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%ae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the text of a pamphlet released by the PASMANDA INTELLECTUALS FORUM, Lucknow. It comes to us via Khalid Anis Ansari पसमांदा समाज की मुख्य माँगें हमने उत्तर प्रदेश विधान सभा चुनाव, 2012 के मद्देनज़र पसमांदा (दलित और पिछड़े) मुसलमानों   की पांच बड़ी मांगें तय की हैं. आइए, आगे बढ़ने से पहले हम इन मांगों पर नज़र डालें: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11439&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All I want is war and peace</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/31/all-i-want-it-is-is-war-and-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Liang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This poster on M.G.Road in the heart of Bangalore, reminded me uncannily of the lines in the marvellous scene in the Mel Brooks film To Be Or Not To Be where he sings All I Want is Peace: Filed under: Empire, Media politics, Violence-Conflict Tagged: Bangalore, hitler, mel brooks, peace, War<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11423&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Students and Faculty of Symbiosis University on the Censors in their Midst</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/31/to-the-students-and-faculty-of-symbiosis-university-on-the-censors-in-their-midst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Students, Dear Teachers, Dear Friends at Symbiosis University, Pune You are faced with an extraordinary situation. A symposium on Kashmir that was to be held in your institution with the support of the University Grants Commission, has been cancelled, postponed (see update at the end of the post) following complaints by activists of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11410&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t show light to those who have chosen darkness: The Case of Imam Bukhari</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/30/you-cant-show-light-to-those-who-have-chosen-darkness-the-case-of-imam-bukhari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohail Hashmi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid has issued a statement that calls upon the Muslim voters of Uttar Pradesh to vote for the Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav. A whole lot of poll experts are going to rejig their forecasts to factor in this new and hitherto unexpected development. We would be told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11406&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How We Celebrate Freedom</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/30/how-we-celebrate-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hindu reports that a university in Pune has cancelled a planned screening of Sanjay Kak&#8217;s 2007 documentary film, Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom. Speaking to The Hindu over telephone, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce principal Hrishikesh Soman stated that the ABVP had approached him on Friday, and that the college agreed to cancel the film [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11398&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Kashmiri Pandits May Never Return to Kashmir: Raju Moza</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/30/why-kashmiri-pandits-may-never-return-to-kashmir-raju-moza/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/30/why-kashmiri-pandits-may-never-return-to-kashmir-raju-moza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kashmiri Pandits exodus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashmiri Pandits return]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAJU MOZA It was in the month of January in 1990 that the onset of militancy in Kashmir resulted in the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits to Jammu, Delhi and elsewhere. Every year since then, January brings back the question of their return to their homes, in the press and increasingly on the internet. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11390&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hindus offended by lack of offence: Sajan Venniyoor</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/28/hindus-offended-by-lack-of-offence-sajan-venniyoor/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/28/hindus-offended-by-lack-of-offence-sajan-venniyoor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAJAN VENNIYOOR In the first few weeks of the year 2012, when members of the Muslim, Christian and Sikh communities were successively offended and humiliated, Hindus are feeling left out. Even as the Hindu community was reeling under the refusal by a Russian court to ban the Hare Krishna version of the Bhagavad Gita, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11386&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India, Pakistan and the Snow Leopard: Javed Naqi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/28/india-pakistan-and-the-snow-leopard-javed-naqi/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/28/india-pakistan-and-the-snow-leopard-javed-naqi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by JAVED NAQI Amongst the lesser known casualties of the conflict between India and Pakistan is wild life. In times of war, we hear of the loss of life and property but seldom notice the huge impact on wildlife. Animals found in the vicinity of the disputed India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir are on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11318&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That): Pranesh Prakash</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/27/how-india-makes-e-books-easier-to-ban-than-books-and-how-we-can-change-that-pranesh-prakash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without getting into questions of what should and should not be unlawful speech, this guest post by PRANESH PRAKASH chooses to take a look at how Indian law promotes arbitrary removal and blocking of websites, website content, and online services, and how it makes it much easier than getting offline printed speech removed. Banning E-Books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11373&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the name of sovereignty: APDP</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/in-the-name-of-sovereignty-apdp/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/in-the-name-of-sovereignty-apdp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS, the Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar – 190001, Jammu and Kashmir Press Statement, 25th January 2012: On 17th October 2011, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) submitted an application for information under Right to Information Act 2009 to the office of the Public Information Officer of State Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11367&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The process is the bloody punishment</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/the-process-is-the-bloody-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/the-process-is-the-bloody-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Liang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sec. 153A of the Indian Penal Code – that favored child of the religious right- provides for punishment of upto three years imprisonment for the promotion by words (spoken or written) of disharmony, feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will between religious communities. The punishment laid down in this section has to one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11358&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Questions for the Maharashtra ATS Chief: JTSA</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/some-questions-for-the-maharashtra-ats-chief-jtsa/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/25/some-questions-for-the-maharashtra-ats-chief-jtsa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the JAMIA TEACHERS&#8217; SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION The Maharashtra ATS claims to have cracked the 13/7 blasts case. Its chief has revealed in a press conference that Indian Mujahideen was behind the Mumbai blasts. And yet, the Ministry of Home Affairs remains far from impressed—indeed, it appears rather irritated. And the press, also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11353&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SAHMAT invites Salman Rushdie to Delhi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/24/sahmat-invites-salman-rushdie-to-delhi/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/24/sahmat-invites-salman-rushdie-to-delhi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from SAHMAT, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, Delhi We have watched with dismay the unnecessary controversy which erupted over the presence of Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literary Festival. We strongly disapprove of the threats &#8211; real or perceived &#8211; issued against the participation of Rushdie. The state has once again succumbed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11347&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confuse and deceive &#8211; Email interception in Kerala and the formula for political survival: Yaseen Ashraf</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/24/confuse-and-deceive-phone-tapping-in-kerala-and-the-formula-for-political-survival-yaseen-ashraf/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/24/confuse-and-deceive-phone-tapping-in-kerala-and-the-formula-for-political-survival-yaseen-ashraf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by YASEEN ASHRAF, associate editor of the Malayalam weekly, Madhyamam An article by Viju V Nair in Madhyamam Weekly (issue 727, 23 January 2011) has raised the hackles of the Kerala Government and its political allies. Strange, because the report was about the excesses of the police intelligence, something which can be – and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11343&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Following the Protest Movement in Sri Lankan Universities</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/23/following-the-protest-movement-in-sri-lankan-universities/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/23/following-the-protest-movement-in-sri-lankan-universities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahilan Kadirgamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the stronger protests and forceful political debates in Sri Lanka are taking place in relation to student rights, university teachers pay, allocation of government expenditure on education and inequalities relating to the Government’s private university bill. University students have been on the boil over issues from militarisation of the universities, including compulsory military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11332&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gandhi Chawl Incident: Meena Menon</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/23/the-gandhi-chawl-incident-meena-menon/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/23/the-gandhi-chawl-incident-meena-menon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post by MEENA MENON is an extract from her recently published book, Riots and after in Mumbai- Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation It was all in the eyes. Beneath the finely drawn brows, they were haunted and distant. For Naina Bane, the night of 8 January 1993 will remain a night of absolute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11323&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Mothers: P K Medini</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/22/the-book-of-mothers-p-k-medini/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/22/the-book-of-mothers-p-k-medini/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;P K MEDINI still recollects the day when she first sang for the election campaign of the Communist party. Now, six decades later, the spirit isn&#8217;t one bit lost for the veteran singer. Medini, 78, says she sang first for Communist leader T V Thomas. Since then, she had been a regular presence at the election [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11308&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jaipur Literature Festival &#8211; Requiescat in Pacem</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/21/jaipur-literature-festival-requiescat-in-pacem/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/21/jaipur-literature-festival-requiescat-in-pacem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the law had four corners? I didn&#8217;t, but whosoever writes press releases for the Jaipur Literature Festival does. Did you know that the &#8216;ideas can be exchanged and literature loved&#8216;, &#8216;strictly&#8216; within these four corners? I didn&#8217;t, but whosoever writes press releases for the Jaipur Literature Festival does. PRESS RELEASE SENT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11294&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;सलमान रूश्दी के कार्यक्रम रद्द होने पर निराशा&#8217;; PUCL regrets cancellation of Salman Rushdie&#8217;s visit to Jaipur</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/20/%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%b2%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/20/%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%b2%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given below is the text of a press statement issued today by the PEOPLE&#8217;S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES, Rajasthan. The Hindi original is followed by an English translation. प्रेस विज्ञप्ति सलमान रूश्दी के कार्यक्रम रद्द होने पर निराशा दिनांक: 20.01.2012 सलमान रूष्दी के जयपुर आने के कार्यक्रम के सम्बन्ध में जब कंछ मुस्लिम संगठनों ने [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11290&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The BSF as Pornographer: Bravehearts with Bluetooth</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/20/the-bsf-as-pornographerbravehearts-with-bluetooth/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/20/the-bsf-as-pornographerbravehearts-with-bluetooth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this is how the borders of the Republic of India are also defended. With sticks, ropes and bluetooth enabled mobile phones. Eight soldiers of the Border Security Force, hold down a young Bangladeshi man accused of cattle smuggling. He is stripped naked, hogtied and then thrashed. He screams in agony and humiliation. The soldiers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11266&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Le Grande Triptych Humanism: Brinda Bose and Prasanta Chakravarty</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/18/le-grande-triptych-humanism-brinda-bose-and-prasanta-chakravarty/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/18/le-grande-triptych-humanism-brinda-bose-and-prasanta-chakravarty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by BRINDA BOSE and PRASANTA CHAKRAVARTY Haruki Murakami’s much-hyped IQ84 that released worldwide in translation a couple of months ago is (Our) Big Fat Japanese Novel, three volumes in one. Closer home, Amitav Ghosh is in the process of completing the definitive South Asian Maritime Novel in trilogy. Young, prize-winning, promising writers from around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11246&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Haryana CM on Forced Land Acquisition for Gorakhpur Nuclear Power Plant, Fatehabad</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/18/open-letter-to-haryana-cm-on-forced-land-acquisition-for-gorakhpur-nuclear-power-plant-fatehabad/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/18/open-letter-to-haryana-cm-on-forced-land-acquisition-for-gorakhpur-nuclear-power-plant-fatehabad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmers of Gorakhpur village hold a protest in Fatehabad against acquisition of their agricultural land by the Haryana government for a nuclear power plant in the area, August 2010. (The Tribune on-line) &#160; January 16, 2012 Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister, Haryana Chandigarh Dear Mr. Chief Minister, It was with gravest concern and misgivings that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11234&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Satanic Versus Moronic: How Salman Rushdie Lost the UP Election</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/18/satanic-versus-moronic-how-salman-rushdie-lost-the-up-election/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/18/satanic-versus-moronic-how-salman-rushdie-lost-the-up-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its Rushdie-Nasreen-Husain Time, again ! Ta-Raa ! And like a 'sanjog' made by a pretend-god in a made up marquee heaven, the stars of 'Rushdie Time' are crossed with the suddenly brightly shining stars of what would have otherwise been a lackluster, effigy-tarpaulined, mid-winter provincial election. Ta-Rant-Ta-Raa ! Not even a Saleem Sinai or a Gibreel Farishta, let alone a jeeta-jagtaa Salman Rushdie in his weirdest magic-realist moment could have imagined himself mixed up in a plot as diabolical as this one. If this was a court case we could call it Satanic versus Moronic.  Whatever it is, there is no denying that it is a P2C2E -  a 'Process Too Complicated Too Explain'. But explain we must. Process we can.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11222&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PUCL condemns those opposing Salman Rushdie&#8217;s visit to Jaipur</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/17/pucl-condemns-those-opposing-salman-rushdie-traveling-to-jaipur/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/17/pucl-condemns-those-opposing-salman-rushdie-traveling-to-jaipur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the PEOPLE&#8217; S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES, RAJASTHAN 16 January 2012, Jaipur: PUCL strongly condemns Muslim organisations, the Congress and the BJP for opposing Salman Rushdie&#8217;s proposed visit to Jaipur Some Muslim organisations have opposed Salman Rusdie&#8217;s participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival. Leaders of the Congress and the Bhartiya Janta Party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11217&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paramakudi &#8211; Six Poems: Ravikumar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/16/paramakudi-six-poems-ravikumar/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/16/paramakudi-six-poems-ravikumar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September last year, the Tamil Nadu police killed six Dalits in a firing incident in Paramakudi town of Ramanathapuram district. This guest post by RAVIKUMAR is a set of six poems on the Paramakudi killings. The English translation by RAVISHANKER is followed by the Tamil original. For more on the incident, see articles in Kafila archives by V. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11208&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to Homai Vyarawalla, India&#8217;s first woman photojournalist</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/16/tribute-to-homai-vyarawalla-indias-first-woman-photojournalist/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/16/tribute-to-homai-vyarawalla-indias-first-woman-photojournalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Homai Vyarawalla passed away at the age of 98 yesterday. We reproduce here the curator&#8217;s note written by cinematographer SABEENA GADIHOKE, biographer and friend of the legend, on the occasion of her staging a retrospective of Vyarawalla&#8217;s work at the National Gallery of Modern Art in 2011. Having worked for thirty three years of her life Homai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11196&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging Lankans in Black Politics on MLK Day</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/16/engaging-lankans-in-black-politics-on-mlk-day/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/16/engaging-lankans-in-black-politics-on-mlk-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahilan Kadirgamar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In approaching Martin Luther King Jr., Day, I inevitably think about the politics of figures and the generation of King and Malcolm X. That generation and the Black politics they engendered had a lasting impact on the US and the World more broadly. Coming with decolonisation in Africa and elsewhere, King, Malcolm X, the radical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11187&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear, Safety and Livelihood: The Biopolitics of Mullaperiyar: T. T. Sreekumar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/15/fear-safety-and-livelihood-the-biopolitics-of-mullaperiyar-t-t-sreekumar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by T. T. SREEKUMAR The Mullaperiyar Dam controversy  embodies a concrete and complex example of the imperial matrix of biopolitical legacy that post-colonial societies continually encounter even after decades of political independence.  More than a century ago, the British colonial Government administering Madras Presidency, which included parts of Tamil Nadu State, directed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11176&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partition Revisited: 2 October 2011, Rudrapur</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/15/partition-revisited-2-october-2011-rudrapur/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/15/partition-revisited-2-october-2011-rudrapur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a film by RAJEEV YADAV and SHAHNAWAZ ALAM of the Uttar Pradesh unit of the PEOPLE&#8217;S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES This is to introduce our documentary film ‘PARTITION REVISITED’ on the Rudrapur riot of 2nd October 2011, where four persons were killed. Policemen and mobs led by leaders of the Bhartiya Janta Party, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11172&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s groups stopped from meeting Soni Sori in Raipur</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/15/womens-groups-stopped-from-meeting-soni-sori-in-raipur/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/15/womens-groups-stopped-from-meeting-soni-sori-in-raipur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press statement from Saheli, Delhi; Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS), Delhi; WSS Orissa and Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch, Bhopal. A team of women representing various women’s groups from across the country were in Raipur on 12-13th January to meet Ms. Soni Sori, currently lodged in Raipur Central Jail. Ms Sori is a tribal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11166&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JTSA lists some more &#8216;genuine&#8217; encounters in Delhi for the Home Minister</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/14/jtsa-lists-some-more-genuine-encounters-in-delhi-for-the-home-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the by JAMIA TEACHERS&#8217; SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION Mr. Chidambram, You say there shall be no re-visit of the Batla House encounter. You are of course absolutely right. All those agencies who conducted the encounter have already given themselves a clean chit. What further proof could be required of the genuineness of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11158&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Srinagar Sharia court&#8217;s statement against Christian pastors: AICC</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/14/on-the-srinagar-sharia-courts-statement-against-christian-pastors-aicc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from ALL INDIA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL comes to us via John Dayal All India Christian Council concern at Srinagar Sharia court statement against Christian pastors New Delhi, 13 January 2012 The All India Christian Council is deeply disturbed at the Srinagar based Sharia Court issuing a statement against Christian pastors Jim Borst and C M Khanna [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11154&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jaypee and Mahyco as Indian Express sponsors: There is conflict of Interest here, Sir</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/13/jaypee-and-mahyco-as-indian-express-sponsors-there-is-conflict-of-interest-here-sir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is a statement issued by concerned individuals regarding the sponsorship of the 'Excellence in Journalism' awards organized by the Indian Express.] On January 10 and 11, 2012, half page advertisements in the Indian Express (IE) newspaper (at least in the Delhi edition) announced that on Jan 16, 2012 the IE Excellence in Journalism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11150&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demanding a ban on visit of Salman Rushdie to India is outrageous: PUCL</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/11/demanding-a-ban-on-visit-of-salman-rushdie-to-india-is-outrageous-pucl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the PEOPLE&#8221;S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) views it with deep concern that some organizations have demanded ban on entry of Salman Rushdie in the country. The present call is illogical, preposterous and untenable as the writer has visited the country for several times after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11146&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal &#8211; The Nostalgia for 1990</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/11/nepal-the-nostalgia-for-1990/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>prashantjha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanak Mani Dixit&#8217;s efforts to portray 1990s as blissful, and Maoists to solely blame for all of Nepal&#8217;s ills, is revisionist history, facts be damned. Dixit’s rejoinder (‘The perils of executive presidency’, Jan 5) to my column (‘A question of form’, Jan 4) reveals fundamental differences in how we see recent Nepali history. The gist of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11140&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Censorship &#8211; How India Censors Without Being Seen: Pranesh Prakash</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/11/invisible-censorship-how-the-government-censors-without-being-seen-pranesh-prakash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by PRANESH PRAKASH The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11132&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Regulation of Surrogacy in India &#8211; Questions and Concerns: SAMA</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/10/the-regulation-of-surrogacy-in-india-questions-and-concerns-sama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAMA, a resource group for women and health. As the clamor dies down, of news reports celebrating the ‘miracle of science’ that made the arrival of Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s baby boy possible,  it would serve to look more closely at commercial surrogacy in India.  Estimated to be a multi-million dollar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11125&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bhopal, Media and a &#8220;Training Manual&#8221;: Shalini Sharma</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/08/bhopal-media-and-a-training-manual-shalini-sharma/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/08/bhopal-media-and-a-training-manual-shalini-sharma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SHALINI SHARMA It hardly needs any corroboration that the Bhopal Movement led by survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster adheres to the principles of non- violence as dearly as they adhere to their demands of justice and accountability. However, on the 3rd of  December 2011, as thousands of Bhopal gas victims walked towards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11015&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is the story of the monkeys of Delhi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/07/this-is-the-story-of-the-monkeys-of-delhi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From 2009 to early 2011, I lived in a south Delhi barsati which had an enormous terrace area. When I moved in, this open space looked sad and empty, so I spent many thousands of rupees doing it up with all kinds of plants. Then came the monkeys. A team of five to ten. On finding the kitchen locked, they would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11119&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Guddo: Farid Alvie</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/07/waiting-for-guddo-farid-alvie/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/07/waiting-for-guddo-farid-alvie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by FARID ALVIE Three miles west of nowhere, I wait atop a grassy knoll landscaped with deliberate carelessness by the authorities of this semi-dilapidated amusement park. She said she will meet me here at the appointed time but as luck would have it, neither one of us owns a watch. Ravenous crows with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11115&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Appeal to the Tamil Community and its Civil and Political Representatives</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/06/an-appeal-to-the-tamil-community-and-its-civil-and-political-representatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahilan Kadirgamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Appeal Signed by Tamils on the Eviction of Northern Muslims 21 Years Ago Since the end of the war in May 2009, it has become important for all ethnic communities of Sri Lanka to re-examine and reevaluate their past. It is through this process of self-reflection that some of the major issues that confront [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11108&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inter-connected destinies of strangers across an international border</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/06/the-inter-connected-fate-of-strangers-across-an-international-border/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central government wants him to do it, the Rajasthan government wants him to do it, but Rajasthan’s acting Governor Shivraj Patil wouldn’t sign on a file for several months now. His obstinacy could become a major hurdle for many Indians and Pakistanis lodged in each others’ prisons. In an unusual order, the Supreme Court [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11098&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On ‘gay conditionality’, imperial power and queer liberation: Rahul Rao</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/01/on-gay-conditionality-imperial-power-and-queer-liberation-rahul-rao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Bhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by RAHUL RAO It’s not clear what (or whether) David Cameron was thinking when he suggested recently that British aid should be linked to respect for LGBT rights in recipient countries. Almost immediately, the statement evoked homophobic responses from political and religious leaders in Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and elsewhere. Perhaps more importantly, African [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11088&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amitav Ghosh on Goa</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/01/amitav-ghosh-on-goa/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/01/amitav-ghosh-on-goa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some musings here about the liberation of Goa from Portugese rule by India: But the interaction between Portugal and India also produced vibrant cultural hybrids in architecture, music and food. Among the state’s most famous dishes is the spicy vindaloo, a curry whose name is thought to be a contraction of the Portuguese phrase “vinho [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11079&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s march faster towards the metric system: Subhash Chandra Agrawal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/01/lets-march-faster-towards-the-metric-system-subhash-chandra-agrawal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL Even after half-a-century of introduction of metric measure in India, certain commodities like cloth, paper, furniture, land, time etc are being traditionally manufactured/measures in old units or their metric-converts. For example, cloth is usually manufactured in widths like 36” (91 cms), 48” (122 cms), 50” (127 cms), 54” (137 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11065&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Formidable Barriers to the Advance of Democracy: Ravi Sinha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post by RAVI SINHA is the text of the key note address to the Pakistan-India People&#8217;s Forum for Peace and Democracy in Allahabad on 30 December 2011 I must begin by expressing my gratitude to the organizers of this Convention and to this Forum for the opportunity and the honor you have given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11075&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights Review &#8211; Jammu and Kashmir in 2011: JKCCS</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/human-rights-review-jammu-and-kashmir-in-2011-jkccs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release comes from the JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY, the Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar 190001, (www.jkccs.net) TOTAL KILLINGS Year 2011 has just passed, and many have declared this year, a peaceful year in Jammu and Kashmir. Of course assertions of peace by various quarters are relative. Enforced silence cannot be construed as peace. Despite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11069&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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