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				<title>Khusar-Pusar</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&quot;Kab poora hua?&quot;&quot;Hafta toh ho hi gaya&quot;&quot;Dekhna bua ni aayi&quot;&quot;Haan.. wo kese aati&quot;&quot;Kyu kya hua? Shaadi pe toh ayi thi&quot;&quot;Gold ring de ke bhaga diya.. ab kyu ayegi&quot;&quot;Acha.. gold ring hi di thi (in whispers)&quot;&quot;Haan (conspiratorial tone) haan thik thak hi thi shaadi&quot;&quot;Chalo hm toh gaye hi ni the&quot;A serious situation turned to gossip. How does someone's death (&lsquo;poora hona' is a colloquial word for someone's death) become an occasion to talk about marriage? How does the joy of a...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to - Some Thoughts on India's Republic Day</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Could it be that all shops are closed voluntarily due to 26th January rather than government forcing Hartal or closing of shops? With best wishes, and regards, Sincerely, DS Durgashanker Nagda, nagdads@yahoo.com****The day appears not too far when Republic Day or Independence Day shall be celebrated in the closed precincts of Rashtrapati Bhawan in the presence of no more than 100 dignitaries. The &quot;people&quot; will be entitled to just watch a TV report. I have been to USA and watched...]]></description>
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				<title>Some Thoughts on India's Republic Day</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I have never felt like celebrating 15th August, Independence Day. For me, coming from a family of Partition refugees, it marks the date of India's Partition. However, I do want to celebrate Republic Day because it is on this date in 1950 that the Indian Constitution came into effect. It is a document held sacred by millions of its citizens, including those of us who think its drafting was an elitist exercise and did not incorporate some of the key...]]></description>
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				<title>Gently Stooped a Shadow Amply Serene</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;This poem was written in response to an article on Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK&nbsp;Wilted looks with missing smileFast aging housemaid arrives lateApple face land lady frets and fumes.She goes from home to home and mansions largeDens of mean cats and well-fed panthersPetty dogs and clever foxesTrading charge of right and wrongBlurring boundaries of hell and homeAnd royal lions with face sternOccasionally roaring, often quiet,Making home a silent grave.Not every day she sweeps her homeAll the...]]></description>
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				<title>ILL Founded Prejudice</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[In recent years, there has been animated debate in the media and certainly within the uniformed fraternity, about the efficacy of having women officers in the armed forces in the first place, leave alone carrying the additional liability of giving them a permanent commission. Whereas there have been some recent, well informed comments about the work charter that women could handle well in the Services, so as to make more men available for tasks that relate to close quarter combat...]]></description>
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				<title>Lesser Citizens</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Shanta (name changed), a domestic worker came to the U.K with her employer from Delhi, having worked with them for over a year. With an assurance of higher wages and limited responsibilities, Shanta decided to leave behind her four year old daughter and two year old son in the care of her mother-in-law, hopeful of sending home more money than she could earn as a domestic worker in India.  On her arrival in London, Shanta confronted circumstances absolutely different...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to "Some Thoughts on Dipawali"</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I recollected a beautiful story when I read of your habit of losing things like shawls etc. on a regular basis and your mother's admonishing you by saying you may even lose your limbs but for the fact that they are firmly attached to you.Once upon a time, a man woke up only to realise that his ear was missing. He searched the house and questioned his family all in vain. He decided he would make do with one ear....]]></description>
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				<title>Some Thoughts on Dipawali</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The happiest memories of my life are connected with the festival of Dipawali even though I hate the deafening noise and air pollution that comes from Diwali crackers.Ever since I came of age, Diwali was never an occasion for partying. It meant putting aside everything and everyone else to be with my parents for the evening puja and join my mother in singing the aarti. Even today, the sound of my mother's simple rendering of the aarti is for me...]]></description>
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				<title>Police Raj in Kashmir</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[One of India's finest journalists, David Devadas, who is also the author of In Search of a Future, the Story of Kashmir, was brutally beaten by the police in Srinagar on Monday, 5th September. Devadas says he fears for his life after the incident.He told journalists that he sees the incident as an example of what ordinary Kashmiri citizens suffer commonly. Calling it &quot;a terribly upsetting incident,&quot; he spoke in a letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of &quot;how negatively...]]></description>
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				<title>Lokpal Bill - Need to Look Beyond Magic Wands</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The country owes a debt of gratitude to Team Anna for succeeding in channeling popular anger against corruption into a determined movement to seek institutional measures to cleanse our politics of the cancer of corruption. Anna Hazare has succeeded in igniting the fading spirit of patriotism and idealism in the country's youth which was increasingly turning cynical and distancing itself from politics. Not too long ago there was an all pervasive feeling that India's politics and governance was beyond redemption....]]></description>
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				<title>Symphony of Golden Poories</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Slowly kneading American doughfrom her aged face dripssome salty spontaneous dropsoozing from stream of subconscious thoughts. The slow motions unlockfrom rheumatic finger knotstexture of deeper thoughtstight, tense and waffle glass brittleonly she knows what they are of.Sea deep frying panand the red-eyed fire beneaththe messy and greasy oily worldbecome heated enoughat certain pointbut the lid must remain strong,as an old habit,she timorously thought.Step by step she rolls the doughas perfect moon in poorie formthe unending circles of her own,one by...]]></description>
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				<title>Counterpoint: Jan Lokpal: A Quacks Prescription</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[There exists an astonishing perversity of consensus about the desirability of having a Lokpal.  Everyone seems to want one and everyone seems to think that having one is critical to the crusade against corruption. Voices of dissent have been few and far between and more about the role a coterie of self-appointed &quot;Civil Society&quot; representatives have arrogated to themselves, and the manner in which they have tried to sidetrack the processes of parliamentary democracy, than about the Lokpal per...]]></description>
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				<title>I Wish I Was Malamasa</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The concrete, colourless and crude staircase of the  Civil Secretariat building in the heart of the Valley  also contains an entry point to the ladies' bathroom.  I went in there and looked at my face in one of its mirrors. For a moment I thought my face was stained. But then I realized that someone had thrown paint on the mirror.    I thought no one noticed me staring in the mirror. I could hear...]]></description>
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				<title>Civil Society: a New Threat for the Congress Party?</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Congress Party has suddenly discovered a new threat in &quot;Civil Society,&quot; not just to its own existence but by hyperbolic extension typical of the party from the days of &quot;Indira is India&quot; mindset, to the Indian democracy and stability of the Indian state.  Therefore it is busy marshalling all its resources to draw a Lakshman Rekha which defines &quot;thus far and no more limits for &quot;Civil Society Organizations.&quot; For this it has succeeded in mobilizing an influential section...]]></description>
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				<title>Communal Games of the 'Secular' Congress</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Congress Party may think that by dividing the anti corruption movement and by tabling its own watered down version of the Lokpal Bill in parliament, it has successfully defanged the anti corruption movement. But the unholy tactics it has used to divide and derail the anti corruption movement is likely to boomerang in the long run. Its strategy to undermine the credentials of those leading the anti corruption movement has been as follows:Challenge the legitimacy of Team Anna on...]]></description>
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				<title>Manushi Celebrates Asian Women's Day</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&quot;Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it&quot; Aung San Suu KuiOn June 19, 2011, Manushi and the Women's League of Burma organized Asian Women's Day at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House in commemoration of Aung San Suu Kyi's 66th birthday.  This birthday was a special one for Suu Kyi because it marked her first birthday in ten years that...]]></description>
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				<title>Satyagraha is not Just a Hunger Strike</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Dear Baba Ramdev, You had everything going for you &ndash; a large and devoted following ready to stand by your anti-corruption campaign for as long as you could carry it. Your followers not only came to Ramlila Maidan at their cost, but they also dipped in their pockets and gave you money as their gesture of support to the movement.  Not surprisingly, you were the envy of politicians because most of them have to ferry people at their own...]]></description>
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				<title>The Little Devil</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The sun is in full fervour today. Hitting the silent streets, it remains unaware of the trouble it causes to the people inside their homes. Now the trouble-maker stretches out Its streaks of frenzy inside the tiny kitchen of Parvati&rsquo;s house. Sitting on the floor, she kneads the dough, swaying back and forth, back and forth. Frail as she is, she occupies almost half the kitchen floor. The back of her hand rudely pushes aside a troublesome lock of hair...]]></description>
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				<title>Evolution of People's Media</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The disempowerment, violence and injustice reinforced and sustained by the mass media need to be resisted through global civil initiatives for creating alternative modes of communication and information. The deprivation of rights to identity, expression and communication is one of the more awesome consequences of &quot;globalisation.&quot; The success of &quot;globalisation&quot; depends not merely on disempowerment of the majority but their very exclusion from public spheres, and communication is the most important public sphere where they might be visible or audible.Why...]]></description>
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				<title>Aung San Suu Kyis Freedom without Fear</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi has the rare combination of intelligence, physical charm and a generous compassion for her military tormentors. She symbolizes hope and principled commitment, sometimes against all hope. Her college friends from Oxford days point out that she represents a kind of moral beauty and even a spiritual beauty of a pilgrim. She inspires democracy pilgrims all around Asia and the world. Such a beauty, so rare today, reminds one of the Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore&rsquo;s writing....]]></description>
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				<title>Travailing on Public Transport</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;If you want the seat why don't you kids ask for it?&rdquo; he snarled.I was snubbed, and that too in front of a friend. &ldquo;No Uncle, I didn&rsquo;t mean that I wanted you to get up for me... I was just telling my friend here that...&rdquo;&ldquo;Don't make loud comments and hope that I vacate the seat for you.&rdquo;***I walk on to the platform nonchalantly. Check my phone for messages. Check my diary for things I have to finish today. Balance...]]></description>
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				<title>Gandhi's Publicist Skills: A Source of Power? </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The origin of Gandhi's unconventional and often controversial power has been explained by historians in various ways. Mirabehn's Gleanings, Gathered at Bapu's Feet, like much of the hagiographic writing following Gandhi's assassination, identifies his inner saintliness as the prime source. Rudolf and Rudolf emphasise instead his charisma, arguing that it was grounded in his ability to realize, both in his public actions and daily life, cultural ideals that many Indians honoured but fell short of enacting themselves. Brown in contrast...]]></description>
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				<title>Come to the Rooftop, My Darling </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Culture and language are closely intertwined. Like cooking and ingredients. The spouse and I have been over the latter point a few hundred times. No one makes sarson ka saag like his grandmother used to. No one gets sarson leaves freshly plucked from the fields any more, I counter. Pesticide doused, fertilizer enriched, transported by trucks, High Yielding Variety mustard can only give leaves that taste that good and no more. Yet despite the onslaught of modernity our culinary traditions...]]></description>
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				<title>Leela, or (The Forgotten)</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[For A. R.: &ldquo;Not only is another world possible, she is on her way.  On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.&rdquo;Leela and Karia smiled down from the trees where they had finally found love.  Mary, an old farmhand, discovered their bodies by the aechi panne tree.  A bottle of poison lay beside them.  &ldquo;Immoral.  .  .  Immoral,&rdquo; Achiah had said.  He would not speak of them again. ~ Achiah, the...]]></description>
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				<title>Elected Representatives are a Quintessential Requirement of Democracy</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[We all owe Anna Hazare a debt of gratitude for dedicating his life to the service of the people and battling for accountability and transparency in governance. Right now millions of people look to him for inspiration and guidance. We are all sick of mismanagement, venality and the lack of accountability that have become the hallmarks not only of our institutions of governance but also of many of our educational, cultural, religious and a host of other institutions including many...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to Lavasa Report</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[We are posting all the responses we received in response to my article on Lavasa.  One of our readers has asked whether the photographers used were provided by Lavasa in which case their credibility would be suspect.Even though I am a novice with digital photography and videography, I took all the photographs myself. In addition, I video graphed several interviews with local villagers and employees of Lavasa. I will try to post some the relevant segments of those interviews...]]></description>
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				<title>Sultani Farmaans of Jairam Ramesh</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[As someone engaged for decades in battling the arbitrary governmental laws and regulations that trample upon the livelihood rights of people working in the unorganized sectors of our economy&mdash;street vendors, rickshaw pullers, farmers et al&mdash;I was taken by surprise when Ajit Gulabchand, the chief promoter of Lavasa and CEO of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) --India&rsquo;s leading corporate house engaged in massive infra structure development projects, invited me to visit the hill city and see for myself whether the charges leveled...]]></description>
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				<title>On Cross-Cultural Conversations </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[We are sharing this insightful presentation by&nbsp; Mr Shyam Saran, one of India's most respected&nbsp; diplomats, at the Conference  on Cross-Cultural Conversations held in New Delhi from 28-30, December 2010.The very raison d&rsquo;etre of the profession I represent, diplomacy, is anchored in cross-cultural engagement. In fact, I would go further and assert that diplomacy is cross-cultural conversation. A diplomat is a &ldquo;duta&rdquo; or an envoy. But he is not merely a messenger. He is an interlocutor, whose skills are...]]></description>
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				<title>Kamaladevi</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[IN October 1988 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya passed away at the age of 85 years. The heroine in a play - a caption to one of Kamaladevi&rsquo;s photographs in her biography by the sensitive writer Jamila Brijbhushan (Abhinav Publications, 1976), captures the quintessence of those 80 plus years.The basics first. Kamaladevi was born on April 3, 1903, educated at St Anne&rsquo;s Convent, Mangalore, and acquired a diploma in sociology from Bedford College, London University. She was the fourth and the last child...]]></description>
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				<title>Making India India</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Dear Manushi friends,L.C. Jain, a dear friend and enthusiastic supporter of Manushi from its very early days passed away on November 13, 2010. As one of the tokens of his great affection and support for Manushi he was in large part instrumental in bestowing the best woman journalist award instituted in the memory of his freedom fighter mother, Smt Chameli Devi Jain to me as the editor of Manushi way back in 1986. I used to love his calling me...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to Honest is, Who Honest Does Part IV</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[This is indeed a superb article. i could not agree with u more and thank heavens there r people like u who call a spade a spade but what of the dynasty itself? why does no one qs the subversion of parliamentary democracy - that this is not&nbsp;a communist type of constitution that we have where the party head holds&nbsp;&nbsp;the supreme authority and the pm is just a figure head for running the admin.i thought that ours was meant to...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to Honest is, Who Honest Does Part III</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Respected Madame Kishwar , I recently had the opportunity of reading your articlein Outlook magazine 'Honestly speaking' on the rather strange role played by the Hon'ble PM in all the issues from CVC appointment, Raja's misdemeanours etc., that of keeping silent. That by keeping quiet the PM has also opened himself to blame is something no other writer or columnist ever dared to write but you did that boldly. I bow my head to you for your courage and your...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to Honest is, Who Honest Does Part II</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[That is a very well-written article. You have literally taken the words out of my mouth. Over the past several months I have been saying to all those I meet that Dr Man Mohan Singh cannot be considered an honest man or a man of integrity, and you have put it all down in a fully convincing manner.I thought I should put down 2 further points concerning our PM for the consideration of all those who read this.Firstly, Dr Man...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to Honest is, Who Honest Does Part I</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;A very appropriate simile would have been from the Mahabharat - that Bhishma Pitamah sat to watch Draupdi being disrobed made him as culpable as the Dushashan who actually tried to disrobe Draupdi.Aditya KishwarIt is wonderful to have this powerful article on corruption. Lot more is happening and the worst in my opinion that has happened is the judgment of Allahabad court,where an idol forcibly placed in a masjid has been guaranteed property rights. There is many occassion when I...]]></description>
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				<title>Honest is, Who Honest Does</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Today, the Indian media--both print and television&mdash;is focusing on the recent corruption scandals involving the&nbsp;UPA&nbsp;Government with unusual zeal. However, I fail to understand why almost every commentator, every TV anchor, every editorial writer feels compelled to pay ritual obeisance to the &ldquo;personal honesty and integrity&rdquo; of Dr&nbsp;Manmohan&nbsp;Singh while dealing with the scandals emanating from his Cabinet colleagues. They do so even when there is clear evidence that the Prime Minister was well aware of various shady deals, as in the...]]></description>
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				<title>We Will, We Will Rock You!*</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The following article by Farah Mahrukh on the all important Navjot ceremony among Parsis reminds us that family rituals  are often at the heart of our incredibly varied Indic religiouns and culture.  Manushi would welcome more such intimate descriptions of life cycle family ceremonies as celebrated by the many different religious groups  in our country. We invite our readers to send us an in depth portrait of some of your own family's religious/cultural rituals. Perhaps in this...]]></description>
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				<title>Bridging the Divides</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[My first question to people across India after the recent violence was, &quot;Why do you only remember Kashmir for its tourism, honeymoon vacations, and sightseeing? Why don&rsquo;t you protest and shed tears for what has happened to us?&quot; I was especially puzzled that active members of India's civil society organizations outside Kashmir were not speaking out. I wrote to the Home Minister and others to try to get them to understand how terrible things are in Kashmir, but I was...]]></description>
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				<title>Memorandum to UPA Chairperson Mrs Sonia Gandhi </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The text of the Memorandum on the crisis in Kashmir to be submitted to UPA Chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi by Manushi: Citizens First Forum is given below: To add your signature to this Memorandum, please click here&nbsp;: http://www.manushi.in/memorandum.phpDear Mrs Gandhi,As Chairperson UPA, the MANUSHI--Citizens First Forum seeks your intervention to arrest the alarming deterioration in the political situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The people of J&amp;K had reposed great faith in the UPA Government and the democratic process by registering...]]></description>
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				<title>Wake up New Delhi</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[What the ISI-trained terrorists and their agents in Kashmir could not achieve in 20 years, Omar Abdullah and his patrons in Delhi Durbar have managed to deliver to separatists in less than 18 months. Farooq Abdullah is well within his right as the father of the present Chief Minister of J&amp;K to advise his son not to resign despite the worsening situation in Kashmir. But by telling Omar to keep clinging to his chair even when he has earned universal...]]></description>
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				<title>Criminalizing Poverty for National Prestige</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Anwar Bhai, another Faqueer amongst many, sits near the Jamia campus, engrossed in reading a newspaper each morning, sipping tea. While others are begging for alms, he sits quietly, intent on his newspaper, and only looks up with a smile of thanks when someone drops a coin in his bowl.I wondered how and when he learned to read. He told me that he went to a school for a few years in Bhopal, his hometown. This brief experience was enough...]]></description>
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				<title>Pension for Arunjit</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ARUNJIT was barely four years old when he suffered a head injury, which put an end to his mental growth. While he grew into his fifties, his mental faculties remained that of a child of four years. Although there was nothing childlike or childish in his behaviour and to a casual observer he appeared almost normal, he needed constant nursing and attention.His mother was widowed at an early age and drew a pension from the defence department. When she died...]]></description>
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				<title>Band Aid Solutions Will Not Do for Kashmir</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Amid reports that the Americans are using female marines in Afghanistan to gain access to local women and thereby swing the population to their side, there are suggestions that India could do the same in Kashmir. But, recruiting a few women to control human rights abuses in Kashmir would be like applying band-aid to a deeply-infected wound. Kashmir requires a political solution, not a military one. Band-aid solutions evoke disdain rather than inspire confidence. Kashmir requires a political solution, not...]]></description>
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				<title>Response to Dialogue with Khap Panchayat Leaders</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I wish I could have attended this important interaction - I balk at using the term dialogue, since that connotes `us and them.' We are all Indians, simultaneously individuals and members of various communities and identity groups, struggling to figure out ways to live together with respect. It is easy to forget that India is one of the few places on Earth where nation does not mean a single ethnicity, religion, sect or language. It is founded &ndash; and, I...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to "A Question of Balance"</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I don't know whether sagotra prohibition originally sprang from inbreeding concerns, but any scientific basis of gotra restrictions breaks down when we consider that gotra is only inherited from the father's side, and essentially the gotra of a married woman is that of the husband. In south India cousin marriage to father's sister's child &amp; mother;s brothers child are traditionally acceptable; a man can even marry his niece (sister's daughter). None of these break the sagotra prohibition. interestingly marriage to...]]></description>
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				<title>A Question of Balance</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[While the murder and brutalization of those defying restrictions on inter gotra marriages needs to be strongly condemned and punished, I fail to understand why most sections of the media and progressive opinion are condemning Haryana M.P.  Navin Jindal for his taking up the demand for amendment in the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 to include same gotra marriages in the category of prohibited relationships for Jats of Haryana.The Indian Constitution envisaged that the State shall impose a Uniform...]]></description>
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				<title>Phenomenon of Shah Faesal: Some Lessons </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Shah Faesal is a phenomenon which is unparalleled in recent years in Kashmir. His performance has been hailed from the Governor and the Chief Minister to a layman in Kupwara. Columns after columns have been written on him. His fame has crossed the lofty Pir Panchal. The spontaneous welcome he received at the airport and unending crowd that continued to greet him at his residence for many days without any organisational support would be envy of any popular leader. It...]]></description>
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				<title>Responses to Yes to Peace with Pakistan, No to the Ideology of Pakistan</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I only had time to skim quickly through your essay but was quite moved by the personal narrative and the ever-present good sense, clear thinking and compassion that I have appreciated in your work.My experience of &ldquo;partition&rdquo; is limited to the indirect harrowing family tales of razaakaar terror in Hyderabad during that same period, but it is nowhere near the same thing. I have come to the conclusion that, while it might have been viable in ancient tribal times, the...]]></description>
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				<title>Yes to Peace with Pakistan, No to the Ideology of Pakistan</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The thaw at Thimpu between India and Pakistan is a welcome development. While it is imperative for India&rsquo;s well being that we do all we can to find a way of peaceful co existence with the government and people of Pakistan, it is equally important that we do not make peace with the Idea of Pakistan and the ideology that led to the bloody Partition of India in 1947.The Partition of India is not a mere historical event for most...]]></description>
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				<title>Italy: Not a Suitable Model</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I find it surprising that Sankrant Sanu presents the Italian model worth emulating in his article: Women&rsquo;s Representation: Why not the Italian Model?Italy is not a good example for democratic governance; it is hard to imagine what `voluntary' might mean in that political system, and what criteria would be used in selecting and empowering women candidates. Many Italian political leaders have displayed a very discriminatory attitude towards women. For example, Berlusconi, who has been in power for a number of...]]></description>
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				<title>Women's Representation</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[As the debate over women's parliamentary reservation in India rages strong, it is worth looking at how other countries have legislated on the issue. One European country made a big jump in the representation of women in their house of parliament in recent years. The country, Italy, makes a fascinating comparison. Just four years ago the representation of women in the Italian house of parliament mirrored that of India's.  Sonia Gandhi, the UPA Chairperson and prime mover behind this...]]></description>
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