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	<title>Over the top &#187; Culture</title>
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	<description>Raising a regional ruckus</description>
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		<title>ta-thei-thei</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2011/09/02/ta-thei-thei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>himaladmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sophia Furber
 Dancing Kathak in London
 
Mahalakshmi Vidya Bhavan, a Hindu temple in London suburbia, is an unassuming white building that sits on top of a hill, next to an Anglican church. Apart from the red and yellow flags on the roof, there is little to suggest that this building is a temple; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let a thousand flowers bloom</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2011/07/26/let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>himaladmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Amit Julka
 
Years ago, when I was staying in Kolkata, I used to enjoy having long conversations with my driver Khan. I was learning Urdu at that time, and Khan would often help me out on this regard. As time passed, the nature of our conversations went beyond the confines of Urdu, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music sans frontiers</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/08/20/music-sans-frontiers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>surabhip</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serendipity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Surabhi Pudasaini
The idea of organic conversations and collaborations across Southasian borders is a warm and fuzzy one. The reality, however, is far colder, with such exchanges uncommon. There is, of course, immense scope for joint efforts, especially in fields with shared or overlapping historical trends. Music is one area that comes under this category. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamara Osama</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/07/22/hamara-osama/</link>
		<comments>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/07/22/hamara-osama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laxmim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tere Bin Laden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fake bin Laden provides some laughs along with a sharp comment on the “war on terror”, the media, and US policy on Afghanistan.
By Laxmi Murthy

A spoof about the US &#8216;war on terror&#8217;, the Pakistani desperation to emigrate and a satirical take on the media’s obsession with &#8216;Breaking News&#8217; could go badly wrong in hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I eat god, I drink god, I sleep on god&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/22/i-eat-god-i-drink-god-i-sleep-on-god/</link>
		<comments>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/22/i-eat-god-i-drink-god-i-sleep-on-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sushmaj</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaipur Literature Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211;Guest Blogger Sushma Joshi
I eat god,
I drink god,
I sleep on god…
It is the first day of the Jaipur Literature Festival and Girish Karnad, who is supposed to give the keynote lecture, along with heavyweights like Wole Soyinka and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., are missing in action. They are possibly lost in the Delhi fog, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Mile High Meeting between Dada and Krishna</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/19/secret-mile-high-meeting-between-dada-and-krishna/</link>
		<comments>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/19/secret-mile-high-meeting-between-dada-and-krishna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nepalidada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been leaked to the general public that a senior level member of the Nepali Dada Party had a secret meeting with Arjun Dada&#8217;s driver in the bathroom of a 737. The Nepali Dada Party agrees and accepts that this secret meeting happened. It also acknowledges that a separate account of a senior Nepali [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A statement of respect to professionalism in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/15/a-statement-of-respect-to-professionalism-in-nepal/</link>
		<comments>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/15/a-statement-of-respect-to-professionalism-in-nepal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nepalidada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nepali Dada Party is proud to represent a growing mass of working professionals in Nepal that are incompetent, illiterate and basically retarded.
Let me offer a description &#8211; the Nepali professional is a breed that will work for money, but will be equally comfortable not working for the money. It is not be trusted, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Intelligence Policy and India&#8217;s Political Culture</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2009/12/02/us-intelligence-policy-and-indias-political-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2009/12/02/us-intelligence-policy-and-indias-political-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijay Vikram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Despair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading two very interesting documents that provide an insight into the worldview of the American intelligence community &#8211; the CIA&#8217;s Strategic Intent (2007) and the National Intelligence Strategy of the United States (2009) that is published by the Directorate of National Intelligence. The latter, charged with coordinating the vast intelligence apparatus of the [...]]]></description>
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