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	<description>A SITE FOR INDIAN FEMINISTS</description>
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		<title>Sidhartha Mallya ne tweet kiya: The sameness of response to molestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 06:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koyel Lahiri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 18th of May the Delhi Police arrested Luke Pomersbach, an IPL player owned by the Bangalore team, on charges of molesting a woman and assaulting her fiancé. This incident was followed by Sidhartha Mallya, ‘director’ of the Bangalore Royal Challengers, tweeting the following: “The girl who is accusing Luke is saying he hit [...]]]></description>
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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>holi &#8220;khelna&#8221;: playing without consent</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2012/05/03/holi-khelna-playing-without-consent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 06:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuli Kaul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, one played holi*. A literal translation from the Hindi “holi khelna”, play could certainly mean to have fun, to fool around, to amuse yourself, to take part in. Playing holi as a child and then as a teenager in my growing up years in Bombay (now Mumbai), that is what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfriendly Bodies, Unfriendly Cities: Reflections on Loitering and Gendered Public Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anindita Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Facebook event page here. You are invited to the Eighth Professor L. B. Kenny Endowment Lecture to be given by Shilpa Phadke at 6 pm on the 28th of March 2012. Tea is at 5.30 pm at the Durbar Hall, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Horniman Circle, Mumbai. Abstract of Talk: In this presentation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Solo</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2012/02/21/going-solo/</link>
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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>Mother?</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2012/01/29/mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shyama Laxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I MISSED MY PERIODS”. Shantanu looked up from his newspaper.” Does that mean you…?” “Possible. Or maybe just hormonal imbalance like the previous time” I cut in without waiting for him to finish. I didn’t want any anticipation to be built up only to be disappointed later. We had been married for five years now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Female Fasting a Covert Form of Social Violence?</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/10/16/is-female-fasting-a-covert-form-of-social-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dilnavaz Bamboat</dc:creator>
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		<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>The unbearable lightness of skin colour</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/08/16/the-unbearable-lightness-of-skin-colour/</link>
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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>How Kerala responded to Thasni Banu</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/07/23/how-kerala-responded-to-thasni-banu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preethi Krishnan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAST MONTH, Kerala witnessed another incidence of violence against women. On June 19th Sunday, Thasni Banu was on her way to work in Kochi on a bike driven by her friend. Oh, how can I forget? Her male friend. And it was 10:30 pm. According to her statement in a Malayalam interview, Thasni was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two poems</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/06/23/two-poems-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shruti Sareen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being Belindas (a response to Pope&#8217;s Rape of the Lock) The mirror hangs before me My long face stares back at me a pointed chin whose rounding I dread A tiny forehead gleaned from the thick mass of black hair surrounding it. At the black hair now streaked with red I oscillate between fascination and [...]]]></description>
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