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		<title>Shameless</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Priya Alika Elias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I&#8217;m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adrienne Rich: Where does strength come from?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirthi Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A critical analysis of things as they are, wearing a gender lens &#8212; this is an important feminist  preoccupation. It helps let the community of gender-watchers know what to look out for, what to take a view on and perhaps, also, what to oppose/rebel against. But does it widen that community? It does that to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Solo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shreya Sanghani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT STOPPED ME FROM writing this for nearly five years was guilt and fear. What prompted me to start writing this was an old and sustained rage. A belated realization that telling my story is not only valuable, but vital. Let me introduce myself. I belong to a small and elusive group, and I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The Singh household was, these days, rather precariously balanced on its head. With six females in it, patriarch PP Singh had been feeling for a while that it was losing its male essence. For that is what it was: an essence. A house could be filled with a dozen women but if one man ruled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Female Fasting a Covert Form of Social Violence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dilnavaz Bamboat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I HAD INDEPENDENT CONVERSATIONS WITH two friends recently, about the same topic. Both friends fasted/will fast this week, for Sharad Purnima and Karva Chauth respectively. Since I had never heard of the former and the only knowledge I can claim to have about the latter is a sappy scene from DDLJ, I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dilnavaz Bamboat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; PLENTY OF FEMINIST WRITING is churned out by people actively engaged in an area of expertise/field of work. As a therapist, educator and social worker, I have always had plenty to say, a stand to take and debates to relish. (Note: I am NOT saying working folks are the only ones with opinions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The unbearable lightness of skin colour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Goel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN THE VERY FIRST group of white men landed in India, they must have been regarded with overwhelming curiosity and incredulity; not to mention, awe. Awe, the feeling of wonder and admiration, is the perfect word to describe an Indian&#8217;s perception of the white man. Never before have they set eyes on such pinkish, delicate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming of age</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/04/13/coming-of-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arya Raje</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I WAS SEVEN when my mother enrolled me in a karate class. There were 50 boys and I was to be the only girl. When I complained that girls didn’t do karate, she said  there was no activity or job  meant solely for boys &#8212; or for girls. I went on to become a lover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a bird that contemplates a limitless flight</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/04/06/like-a-bird-that-contemplates-a-limitless-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rheea Mukherjee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOU WANT TO LEAVE the city for a smaller town in the hills, to walk in cooler temperatures and climb roads that meander into valleys. You want to buy a glass of steaming milk from the man who sells his dairy in giant pots that rests on a kerosene stove. You want to sip the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanting It</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2010/07/07/wanting-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dilnavaz Bamboat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[      WERE I 17 AND A POT OF MUSH, “those three words” would mean something entirely different. But as an almost-32- year-old (ooh, how I love announcing an upcoming birthday ) who has seen a bit of life and the world, the three words that get a rise out of me are these: [...]]]></description>
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