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      <title><![CDATA[Secret explorers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Bookshops that arent really bookshops have an unmistakeable feel about them, like faux Italian cafes that serve butter chicken a la Tuscany.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The more things change...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A silhouetted figure sits hunched on the floor, her knees drawn up to her chest, arms wrapped around her legs, head hung low.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Call the doctor, toll free]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Is the vomiting accompanied by cramps?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/calldoctor-toll-free/517014/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The family business]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last year, Kabir turned to his diary of two decades ago to check how he&#39;d fared against the goals he&#39;d set himself&nbsp;- the serious as well as the facetious&nbsp;-&nbsp;when graduating from college.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Returning to Anandamath]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If it were not for the refusal of Shafique-ur-Rahman Barq, BSP member of Parliament, to join in with the singing of Vande Mataram, I might never have gone back to Bankim Chandra&#39;s Anandamath and rediscovered its many charms.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The point of it all]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What we think of as &quot;normal&quot; is constantly evolving.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The professor and the player]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have brought much excitement to consumers of news about the gay world.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[When puppets do the talking]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I walked into the cavernous, dark room and drew back with a start.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The small party showbiz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What defines a &quot;small&quot; party in Delhi, an intimate gathering of friends, what a hostess might describe as &quot;casual&quot;?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Men who tell stories]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In this column last fortnight, I wrote about a film - Lessons in Forgetting - that centred on a protective father and his free-spirited daughter, with the latter&#39;s personality brushing against stereotypical ideas about &quot;good Indian girls&quot;.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The unchaste page]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The reading was at a sedate mela; literature was tucked in sideways, in between the food stalls and the sellers of heavy machinery.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reformatting social attitudes to sex]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is depressing to scan the morning news and be greeted by a raft of stories about horrific sexual assaults.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 22:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The unbearable lightness of let-down]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As we struggle through nearly two months of intense summer before the monsoon arrives in right earnest and brings relief, an undercurrent of excitement is running through the family - hugely underplayed, totally unstated, but real nevertheless.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The granny dentist of Tilonia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Whenever I used to think of dentists, tall males with impressive degrees, grimly doing their worst, oblivious to one&#39;s screams of agony, would come to mind.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spoilt for choice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It starts as breakfast is being laid.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bayern rises in India]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With the Spanish Inquisition being thwarted and punished this week in the world of football, May 25, 2013, will mark a unique Champions League final where the two dominant teams of Germany face off at Wembley stadium.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The third voice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The comment that our normally mild-mannered and scholarly prime minister was reported to have made in an interview with Science magazine, that &quot;There are NGOs [non-governmental organisations], often funded from the United States and the Scandinavian countries, which are not fully appreciative of the development challenges that our country faces&hellip;&quot;, continued to ring in my head for several months.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-third-voice/514636/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A is for Apple where universities fail]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Back in my day, which was of course when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Delhi University suffered from a serious case of envy.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Help yourself to get filthy rich]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the most inventively original novels of 2013 is called How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Penguin, Rs 499) by the Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/help-yourself-to-get-filthy-rich/514032/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Treasure hunt]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A news report finds that over 9,500 kids who should be safely with their families in Delhi are missing, according to police records.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[An era ends at Barca?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What an incredible seven days in the world of club football.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brown rice and Bluetooth]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Many of those who visited my craft shop in Santiniketan had been asking for &quot;brown&quot; or &quot;hulled&quot; rice.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The biases we miss]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;You need to learn to think like a fox,&quot; writes Nate Silver, New York Times political forecaster.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-biases-we-miss/513238/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[When social media goes wrong]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The news has been surreal, moving beyond the mundaneness of Iraqi suicide bombers and Delhi child rape-murders.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/when-social-media-goes-wrong/512921/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[IPLs insouciant charm]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Recently, Ricky Ponting and Mahendra Singh Dhoni squared off against each other as captains of rival teams in a limited-overs cricket match.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Poila Baisakh is doing fine]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Journeying across the country in search of livelihood, you take pleasure in the ability to integrate, assimilate.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Solar engineers, Barefoot style]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It was a dusty stone building, not unlike many that one sees in the desert.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Man and superman]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Men, poor pets, throw them a bone now and then and you&#39;ll have them eating out of your hand,&quot; Samira was sharing her views with her monthly support group.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How to write about the poor He knows he won&#39;t get very far if he thinks about them as &quot;the poor&quot;, or as &quot;them&quot;.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/anthropology/512061/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Were two Iron Ladies too many?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Indira Gandhi&#39;s Emergency was at its paranoid peak in 1976 when Margaret Thatcher, leader of the British Opposition, arrived in Delhi.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/were-two-\iron-ladies\-too-many/511763/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[And now for something completely different]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There&#39;s been so much noise in the last couple of weeks about NaMo versus RaGa, so much noise about MaBa (I guess), and her TMC goons, so much noise about JaTy (why not) and the dark cloud over his role in the 1984 Delhi riots &hellip; so much noise in so many different forms of professional and personal media, that there&#39;s not much left to say.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The charge of the Red Brigade]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Picture this.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Working at bed rest]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The hair stylist wanted lights, mirrors, reflectors; he demanded fresh towels, damp wipes, white damasks; he&#39;d carried scissors, combs, clippers and other paraphernalia but required warm water, gels, ointments and assorted unguents.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mocking filmi-ness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sai Paranjpye&#39;s Chashme Buddoor, a light-hearted and mild-mannered comedy which also gave us an unforgettably sweet romance between a bespectacled, padhaaku Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval as the irresistible but real girl next door, was recently restored and re-released in theatres alongside a new David Dhawan remake.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Out of India]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Last winter we spent three months in India,&quot; John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in 1957.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The unchanging Delhi Press Club]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It had been over 10 years since the waiter and I last set eyes on each other, and both of us had aged considerably.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Schooling, not schools]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&#39;s ironic that April, with its scented breezes, sudden showers and languorous days, heralds the coming of a season of discontent for so many.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The motorcycle diary - redux]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For most people, there comes a time when they realise that the only adventure they&#39;re going to have is deciding whether they want to dine al fresco at an Italian cafe or more formally at a five-star.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[All but sport]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For anyone who has followed and enjoyed the Indian Premier League (IPL) since its inception in 2008, the latest edition might be a bit jarring thus far.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Joy and hope in Kochi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I went to Kochi for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, an incandescent string of art exhibits put together by the passion and energy of two artist friends, Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wave Writing about the unimaginable]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Grief stalks the first written story known to the world, The Epic of Gilgamesh.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dreaming in Dharavi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There are good arguments for and against throwing Sanjay Dutt in the clink for possessing weapons.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The real costs of land]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ever since I came to Santiniketan, some acquaintances involved in real estate dealings had been telling me to invest in land.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keeping the home fires burning]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Well, darling, are you missing me?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Laughter and politics]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Italians are trying to laugh their way out of despair they feel at the way things are in their country.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Achebe and the war of stories]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One day, when Chinua Achebe was a young boy, his teacher took the whole class outside for a change.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/achebethe-warstories/508358/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Consent vs civilisation]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Tourists on their first trip to India are often surprised by the way street abuse focuses on the sex lives of female relatives.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/consent-vs-\civilisation\/508039/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monumental blindness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Chawri Bazaar in old Delhi, just opposite the dilapidated mansion that once belonged to a paper merchant of great wealth, on the second floor of an undistinguished building, is a mosque of quite extraordinary beauty.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/monumental-blindness/508043/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[In heavens gateway]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Haridwar keeps sprawling out, but lives round its core - the Ganga.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/in-heaven\s-gateway/508040/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the slumdogs]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Mumbai last week, I had occasion to ponder over theories of urban planning while stuck in traffic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Familys day out]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[My wife pushed aside an elderly man, elbowed out a middle-aged auntyji, refused to give way to a newly-wed spouse, all of it to lay claim to the title of musical chairs champ on the family day organised at our son&#39;s office.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/family\s-day-out/508054/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:33:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reading the word of God]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;In the beginning was the Word, and it was inscribed upon ye parietal lobe.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/readingwordgod/507106/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shades of old Lucknow]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If you want a blast of new Lucknow, you can arrive at the swank new modern airport at Amausi, then drive through wide boulevards with massive stone railings, monumental parks and memorials created by Mayawati on a scale that would make Lutyens eat his heart out.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/shadesold-lucknow/506776/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Italian job]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Their pictures in the papers stop you dead in your tracks - ripped bodies, tailored shirts, aviators, styled hair slick with gel.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-italian-job/506778/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[More power to the people]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The other day, my 14-year old and I were discussing the issue of migration before his economics exam.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/more-power-topeople/506785/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Italy we hate to love]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our jars of sauces and dips from Genoa had served us well, though we&#39;d been out of pesto for a while, attempts by my wife to sneak in substitutes from INA Market having been foiled by our daughter.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-italy-we-hate-to-love/506786/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Royal mistake]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By now, we in India are inured to news channels throwing the most controversial statements of the day in our faces ad nauseam, without context or perspective.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/royal-mistake/506781/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:33:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Rumer???s Raj - the return of a classic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the sun set over the British Empire, you could mark the slow fading of the Raj by the stacks at the pavement booksellers.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-rumers-rajreturna-classic/506111/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Subir Roy What price progress?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There was a twinge within when I read the news that the Fiat or Premier Padmini taxis of Mumbai were almost on the way out.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/subir-roy-what-price-progress/505780/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vikram JohriLincoln</I>, personal and political]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The release of Lincoln has engendered much discussion in the press about the continued relevance of the film's political themes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/vikram-johri-lincoln-personalpolitical/505782/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Geetanjali Krishna A heaven for women]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just as I was pondering over these, my cleaner Anita walked in.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/geetanjali-krishna-a-heaven-for-women/505799/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kishore Singh The family in the doghouse]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The dog trainer gave notice a week ago.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/kishore-singh-the-family-indoghouse/505800/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Devangshu Datta One small step ...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The past few years have seen some promising developments that bring us closer to discovering the holy grail of an AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) cure.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/devangshu-datta-one-small-step-/505611/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Calcutta and Kolkata - Open city]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Census of India, 1901, the civil servant A K Ray offers &quot;a short history of Calcutta&quot;.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-calcuttakolkata-open-city/505096/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sunil Sethi Smelling a rat on the train]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a dreadful old doggerel that came to mind the day the Railway budget was presented this week with new offerings of luxury coaches with designer toilets, instant reservations and gourmet menus.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sunil-sethi-smellingratthe-train/504760/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mitali Saran Send in the clowns]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Left field is getting weirder by the day.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mitali-saran-send-inclowns/504762/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keya Sarkar My chefs choice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[My friend, who had been out of Santiniketan for sometime, texted me while still on her return journey by train.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/keya-sarkar-my-chef\s-choice/504773/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kishore Singh One for the road]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How much wine is too much?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/kishore-singh-one-forroad/504774/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Desh Gaurav Chopra Sekhri Moral due diligence]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The one certainty from the Oscar Pistorius incident is that sponsors, fans and sports bodies have been put on notice to invoke higher standards of ethics from their emerging and established superstars.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/desh-gaurav-chopra-sekhri-moral-due-diligence/504775/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:24:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crorepatis, kal aur aaj]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Old Hindi cinema had an impressive line-up of billionaires (but let's adjust for inflation and allow them to be mere crorepatis).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/crorepatis-kal-aur-aaj/504736/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Gods in the brain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is unwise to mock Scientology for its beliefs.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-gods-inbrain/504005/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ajit Balakrishnan Unpacking Hindutva, etc]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Three concepts are used very frequently in our media: Hindutva, corruption and press freedom.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ajit-balakrishnan-unpacking-hindutva-etc/503433/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Booklessness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the wishing tree outside the Hindu Lit for Life festival, blue and pink cards flutter on long strings, carrying hopes ranging from the pious&nbsp; world peace, harmony and brotherhood&nbsp; to the particular&nbsp; More money, says one succinctly.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-booklessness/503057/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mitali Saran Tough job, but somebodys got to do it]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I wrote that anyone wanting to survive what Salman Rushdie calls India&rsquo;s&nbsp;&ldquo;cultural emergency&" will have to adopt the brace position &mdash; that is, agree to resist what has come to be seen as inevitable and not worth the trouble.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mitali-saran-tough-jobsomebody\s-got-to-do-it/502680/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Geetanjali Krishna Of <i>chanas</i> and gas chambers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m always amazed by the sudden turns that my conversations with people sometimes take.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/geetanjali-krishna-of-chanasgas-chambers/502699/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kishore Singh Dirty picture, same difference]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Seventeen years after she last visited Kolkata &ndash; once her home and the repository of her childhood memories &ndash; my wife says she&rsquo;s disoriented there now.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/kishore-singh-dirty-picture-same-difference/502701/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:08:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A cautious optimism]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The couple that walks into the gallery has been &ldquo;collecting&" art &mdash; though &ldquo;buying&" might be the appropriate term in their case &mdash; for some years now, unmindful of spending a lakh or two on paintings that they like.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-cautious-optimism/502686/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:10:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Another public letdown]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How is it possible for one so high to fall so low so quickly?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/another-public-letdown/502674/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The original flight plan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[J R D Tata (1904-1993) received his pilot&rsquo;s licence in February 1929, and set up India&rsquo;s first airline, Tata Airlines, in 1932.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-original-flight-plan/502679/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Invitations to a hanging]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, the streets of Delhi echoed with the cries of &ldquo;Phansi do! Phansi do!&" Teenagers as young as 17 and 18 called for death to rapists, holding up hand-drawn posters that showed shaky, childishly scrawled gallows.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-invitations-tohanging/502058/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sunanda K Datta-Ray The unsung revolutionary]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A little-known hero of the Emergency died in Kolkata the other day.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sunanda-k-datta-ray-the-unsung-revolutionary/501685/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Devangshu Datta When corruption is healthy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When an Indian wishes to enter a long-term relationship with somebody, he or she initiates a process that can be termed &ldquo;due diligence&".]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/devangshu-datta-when-corruption-is-healthy/501671/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Subir Roy The lost art of entertaining at home]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[My friend Deepak has been round the world in a lifetime of service for a leading MNC, sampling an incredible array of cultures.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/subir-roy-the-lost-artentertaining-at-home/501674/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kanika Datta Betting on a great divide]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The football betting scandal with its epicentre in Asia has surprised those who closely follow the business of football in one respect only.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/kanika-datta-betting-ongreat-divide/501682/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Geetanjali Krishna A magicians tricky life]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A pair of hypnotic dark eyes looked into mine.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/geetanjali-krishna-a-magician\s-tricky-life/501692/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kishore Singh Custom-made for masterji]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I was in my neighbourhood tailor&rsquo;s shop, a place I&rsquo;d been hundreds of times, and now he was telling the customer ahead of me, &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve put on weight, this jacket won&rsquo;t look good on you.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/kishore-singh-custom-made-for-masterji/501693/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Age of Aquarius]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The only real-world advantage to being born in February is that once, in 1982, a furniture store in Switzerland held a sale where anyone born in February got a free office chair.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-ageaquarius/501648/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:16:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Alokananda Chakraborty It is okay to procrastinate]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Delaying a decision or a response until the last possible minute is not such a bad idea after all.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/alokananda-chakraborty-it-is-okay-to-procrastinate/501045/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:45:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Freedom for the thought we hate]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The problem with this country&rsquo;s vast throngs of would-be censors, from the genuinely easily offended to the professional provider of threatening mobs, is that they don&rsquo;t co-ordinate their schedules.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-freedom-forthought-we-hate/500973/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sunil Sethi Republic of bad ideas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If you asked many of the thousands thronging the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) last weekend what exactly the row over Professor Ashis Nandy&rsquo;s comments on corruption was, chances are you would draw a blank.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sunil-sethi-republicbad-ideas/500736/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:48:44 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mihir S Sharma SRK, HM]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You know what I fear?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mihir-s-sharma-srk-hm/500726/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:46:24 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mitali Saran Adopt the brace position]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie found the perfect phrase when he said, during a recent television interview, that India is experiencing a cultural emergency.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mitali-saran-adoptbrace-position/500737/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:40:28 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keya Sarkar Garbage in, more garbage in]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There are two distinct parts to Santiniketan &mdash; one that houses the Visva Bharati University and the students and teachers who live around it, and another, where those who are not connected to the university live.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/keya-sarkar-garbage-in-more-garbage-in/500727/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:38:24 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kishore Singh Four-door suitcases]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Hurry up, call now,&" my wife insists in a peremptory tone.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/kishore-singh-four-door-suitcases/500723/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:37:16 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[J Jagannath Cant see the lit fest for the sessions]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When taken on a tour of the University of Oxford and on being shown the colleges, playing fields, libraries, museums and so on, the foreign visitor supposedly asked, &ldquo;But where is the university?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/j-jagannath-can\t-seelit-fest-forsessions/500733/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:35:18 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mud in the greens]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At a time when Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson are among the most revered and highly compensated athletes in the world, it&rsquo;s easy to forget that professional golf was once considered the province of rogues and ruffians, its reputation shadowy enough that in the late 1950s Jack Nicklaus seriously considered remaining an amateur.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mud-ingreens/500759/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:09:34 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pick of the lots]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago &mdash; a lifetime in Indian art, according to some &mdash; Amrita Jhaveri started collecting modern and contemporary art somewhat more seriously than most, becoming one of the earliest specialists with a calibrated eye for picking art works that represented the best of each generation&rsquo;s artists.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pickthe-lots/500750/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:08:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beti and beti jaisi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It sometimes happen that you think you know a beloved old movie song really well &mdash; based on memories of listening to it on the radio or seeing it once or twice on Chitrahaar &mdash; and then you watch the full film and are struck anew by how well-crafted the scene is and how well it works within a larger context.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:07:49 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nilanjana S Roy Bastions of expression]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan is one of the last bastions of the exotic left to writers.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-bastionsexpression/500219/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Subir Roy The state of the republic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The grounds of Victoria Memorial Hall have seen a remarkable makeover in the last few years.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/subir-roy-the-statethe-republic/500012/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:43:25 +0530</pubDate>
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