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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11222</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11217</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11208</guid>
		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11166</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11158</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2012/01/11/invisible-censorship-how-the-government-censors-without-being-seen-pranesh-prakash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11132</guid>
		<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>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=11098</guid>
		<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>
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		<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>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2012/01/01/global-capital-compliant-nation-states-and-totalitarian-communities-three-formidable-barriers-to-the-advance-of-democracy-by-ravi-sinha/</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/human-rights-review-jammu-and-kashmir-in-2011-jkccs/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>A Modest Proposal for the Castration of Male Police Officers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Kafila Readers, Here is a modest proposal to castrate police men and male police officers and security forces personnel in India who come into contact with women in the line of duty. I thought it would be an appropriately thoughtful, and at the same time useful and practical way to end a turbulent year. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11049&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute to Narahari Kaviraj (1917-2011): Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/a-tribute-to-narahari-kaviraj-sankar-ray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY Narahari Kaviraj, eminent Marxist historian and an ideoligue of CPI, breathed his last in the wee hours of Wednesday, the 28th of December 2011. He was born on 17 February 1917 and was the last disciple of Bhupendranath Dutta,the youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda, whom Lenin had once requested, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11047&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Caste(d) Drive &#8211; Paramakudi to Pasumpon: Bobby Kunhu</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/a-casted-drive-paramakudi-to-pasumpon-bobby-kunhu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by BOBBY KUNHU Between the occasion of the memorial anniversary of Immanuel Sekharan that falls on 11th September and that of Muthuramalinga Thevar on 30th October are 30 odd road kilometers, 49 days, incalculable castiesm and this year (2011) 7 more Dalit lives. Almost the entire Big Media portrayed the 11th September, 2011 murders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11045&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the Wandering Falcon came to Delhi: Pragya Tiwari</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/29/when-the-wandering-falcon-came-to-delhi-pragya-tewari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by PRAGYA TIWARI There is this world among the many worlds of Delhi, the world of book events. You show up for a reading followed by a conversation between the author and some other prominent member of the fraternity. Afterwards you drink wine and exchange news with everyone you know there. And you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11022&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J&amp;K government has buried the SHRC report on unmarked graves in Kashmir: APDP</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/28/jk-government-has-buried-the-shrc-report-on-unmarked-graves-in-kashmir-apdp/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/12/28/jk-government-has-buried-the-shrc-report-on-unmarked-graves-in-kashmir-apdp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:47:32 +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, Jammu and Kashmir 28 December 2011: Callousness of the government continues vis-à-vis victims of human rights abuses and in particular against the family members of those who have disappeared in the last two decades in Jammu and Kashmir. The relatives of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11029&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Protests and Repression: Struggles in the Forests of India&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/28/protests-and-repression-struggles-in-the-forests-of-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This note comes from the CAMPAIGN FOR SURVIVAL AND DIGNITY The last few weeks have seen struggles over forest rights and forest control intensifying across the country. On the one hand there are larger and larger protests taking place, and on the other, the continued use of force by Central and State governments is combined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11027&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suggestions for India Post: Subhash Chandra Agrawal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/28/suggestions-for-india-post-subhash-chandra-agrawal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SUBHASH CHANDRA AGARWAL 1.      All postal-tariffs should be generally in multiples of rupees five with Speed Post tariff being universal at rupees fifteen or twenty for every 50-gms rise in weight abolishing differential tariff of rupees 12 for local and rupees 25 for non-local mail-articles. Considering sharp decline in use of inland-letter-cards and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11024&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Coup D&#8217;état: Fawzia Naqvi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/27/the-year-of-the-coup-detat-fawzia-naqvi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by FAWZIA NAQVI Imran Khan was not the first one to be obsessed with both cricket and politics. Saira and I beat him to it 20 years ago. We spent 50% of our time swooning over him and the other 50% worshipping Mr. Bhutto. 20 years later I believe it was I who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11017&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;NAPM condemns arrest and harassment of anti-dam protesters in Assam&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/27/napm-condemns-arrest-and-harassment-of-anti-dam-protesters-in-assam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release was issued on 26 December by the NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PEOPLE&#8217;S MOVEMENTS New Delhi, December 26 : Tonight at 2:15 am Assam Police in collusion with other security forces swooped down on the protesters at Ranganadi who have been blockading the Highway since December 16 and thwarting state&#8217;s attempt to carry turbines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11012&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New friends of ISKCON? On the Gita controversy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/26/new-friends-of-iskcon-on-the-gita-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subhash gatade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parliament which has remained rather dysfunctional for different reasons all the year witnessed a strange bonhomie few days back. It was difficult to believe that they are the same representatives of people who could not see eye to eye on various issues of concern and were always keen to score their point over their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11002&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Z for Zalim: Semiotics and the Occupation of Kashmir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10992&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas, Rev. Khanna: Thinking about Freedom and Intolerance in Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/25/merry-christmas-rev-khanna-thinking-about-freedom-and-intolerance-in-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to begin writing this by wishing a very happy Christmas to Reverend C.M. Khanna, a Protestant presbyter in the All Saint&#8217;s Church, Srinagar, Indian held Jammu &#38; Kashmir, who has been facing a situation that no free man should ever have to countenance. He has had to face an arrest (though, thankfully now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10978&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahilan Kadirgamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last three months New York City has been electrified by the Occupy Wall Street movement. Prachi Patankar and I have been participating in some of the actions. We have also been part of a number of discussions within the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) on how an organisation like ours can bring an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10971&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why ban just a Facebook page when you can erase a holy book or two (or more)?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/24/why-ban-just-a-facebook-page-when-you-can-erase-a-holy-book-or-two-or-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following in the wake of the declarations of the well known Internet idiot, who doubles as the honorable minister of telecommunications of the Union of India, an esteemed additional civil judge of a Delhi court has also decided to issue an ex-parte order commanding Social Media networks, Facebook and Youtube to remove 21 (or is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10966&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/24/pakistan-ki-tareef-haseeb-asif/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post by HASEEB ASIF is in Urdu, in Roman script Islami Jamhooriya Pakistan ki tareekh Hindustan se bohut purani hai. Balkay Islam se bhi purani hai. Jab aathveen sadi mein Muhammad Bin Qasim Islam phelane bar-e-sagheer tashreef laye tau ye jaan ker sharminda huwe ke yahan tau pehle hi Islami riyasat maujood hai. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10957&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kerala&#8217;s Lost and Found Object of Cinema: Bindu Menon M</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by BINDU MENON M The fascination for films by Kim Ki Duk, the iconoclast South Korean film maker, and his hold over cinematic imagination in Kerala has generated many anecdotal and apocryphal stories in the film festival circuit in Kerala. Given his popularity, its not surprising at all that Kim Ki Duk films [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10953&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s afraid of Veena Malik?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/17/whos-afraid-of-veena-malik/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News broke of Veena Malik&#8217;s &#8220;nude&#8221; &#8211; more accurately, implied nude &#8211; photographs in FHM India magazine when the image of the magazine&#8217;s cover went viral on Twitter, even before the magazine was on newsstands. The media in India and all over the world reported &#8220;outrage&#8221; in Pakistan, in keeping with the international image of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10939&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights impose Western values?: Gita Sehgal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by GITA SEHGAL 10 December was Human Rights Day, anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Does the idea of human rights with their firm assertions, their belief in the ‘rule of law’ and their globalised vision, remain relevant in the world? The idea that there are absolute standards has come under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10932&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangla rocks: Jyoti Rahman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by JYOTI RAHMAN Lagaan was a groundbreaking film, but a Bollywood film nonetheless. My favorite song-dance sequence is the one where the villagers, well Gauri and Bhuvan and friends, celebrate Krishna’s birthday. In the song, the girl complains that Radha is anxious about Krishna’s philandering ways and the boy replies that Radha should be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10925&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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