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	<description>Raising a regional ruckus</description>
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		<title>Open Letter Demanding the Release of Baba Jan Hunzai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 07:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petition for justice in Gilgit-
For the past 8 months Baba Jan Hunzai and four fellow activists have languished in various jails of Gilgit. Twice in this period he has been removed from jail and tortured by military and police agents. He and his colleagues have been charged under Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Ordinance. Baba Jan, however, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmedabad abad</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/05/07/ahmedabad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Meher Ali
&#8220;There is no reason to tell anyone you are a Muslim,&#8221; he promptly declared and added, &#8220;I drink but I don’t tell people I drink.&#8221;
The first broker we met, Samir*, lived in Muslim Society in Navrangpura, a locality that falls in what is called ‘new’ Ahmedabad, or the newly developed part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediafile</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/05/04/mediafile-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chhetria Patrakar
On the third of May, in what the media dubbed a &#8216;historic movement&#8216;, 10 tonnes of newsprint crossed from India to Pakistan at Attari on the Punjab-Haryana border. Its destination: the Dawn and the Jang group of newspaper houses in Karachi. Although this was a trial consignment, the Amritsar-based Khanna Paper Mills, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southasian briefs</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/05/04/southasian-briefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 10:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change in Southasia [Region]
In late-April, KPMG International, an audit and tax advisory firm, in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a British think tank on international development and humanitarian issues, released a Change Readiness Index, the first of its kind. According to the Index, conceived as a way of understanding a country&#8217;s ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediafile</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/04/27/mediafile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chhetria Patrakar
Chhetria Patrakar has learned from a reliable source – but hopes it is not true – that South Asia Wired, a program on Radio Netherlands Worldwide, is closing down imminently. The reason: budgetary discipline (which the BBC never admitted to be a factor when closing down its online South Asia section). This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Harsh Pant</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/03/05/qa-with-harsh-pant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact on Southasia of a potential war in Iran.
Read Harsh Pant&#8217;s full article on India/Iran relations here.
Himal: Does India have a stated position on the possibility of a preemptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities?
India&#8217;s stated position is one of strong opposition to the use of military force against Iran. New Delhi has repeatedly stated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aruna Roy on the Right to Information</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/02/28/aruna-roy-on-the-right-to-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noted Indian Right to Information (RTI) campaigner Aruna Roy sits down with Himal Southasian editor Kanak Mani Dixit to reflect upon RTI&#8217;s rise from a Rajasthani village to the national legislature, and to talk about where India&#8217;s democratic struggles are taking her next. Scroll down for the full transcript.



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Kathmandu, February 20 2012.
Kanak Dixit: We have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the Gujarat riots</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/02/28/remembering-the-gujarat-riots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks 10 years since the tragic events in Gujarat in 2002. The video below, part of a larger memorial project by the Gulberg Society, shows survivors telling their stories of a horrific event that Southasia should never forget.

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		<title>Restructuring the Nepali state</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/02/16/restructuring-the-nepali-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In need of a game changer

by Erik Wilson
Two weeks ago, the State Restructuring Commission (SRC) submitted its report and recommendations regarding state division to Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. The Commission’s report, or perhaps we should say reports (as there was no consensus), unleashed a new wave of protest from ethnic groups who felt that their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trafficking inspectors</title>
		<link>http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2012/02/16/trafficking-inspectors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ruchika Rai
I couldn’t help but compare him to the character played by Tim Roth in the popular American sitcom Lie to me – a professional lie-detection expert, who scans each and every micro-expression of the accused to reach the truth. Janak Chand, a 40 year old human trafficking inspector, who’s been in the field [...]]]></description>
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