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		<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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, this site has been on unofficial hiatus for the last few months. A host of life changes including pregnancy, a move from Bangalore to Mumbai and huge amounts of work have left me short on time and more importantly, on mind space. My sincere apologies to those who have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Bora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<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'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>
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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>
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		<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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anindita Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, this site has been on unofficial hiatus for the last few months. A host of life changes including pregnancy, a move from Bangalore to Mumbai and huge amounts of work have left me short on time and more importantly, on mind space. My sincere apologies to those who have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1963</guid>
		<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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sharanya Haridas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Bora</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1930</guid>
		<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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		<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'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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1919</guid>
		<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/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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1979</guid>
		<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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		<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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<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'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>
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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/2012/01/29/apologies-and-a-request-for-help/</link>
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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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<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'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>
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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>
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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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		<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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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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>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<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'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>
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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/2011/10/16/is-female-fasting-a-covert-form-of-social-violence/</link>
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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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		<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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<title>How Kerala responded to Thasni Banu</title>
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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>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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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>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<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'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>
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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/2011/09/09/strawberries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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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>Apologies and a request for help</title>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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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		<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>Two Poems</title>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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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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		<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'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>
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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/2011/08/19/half-year-of-the-hausfrau/</link>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1930</guid>
		<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>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
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		<title>The unbearable lightness of skin colour</title>
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		<title>How Kerala responded to Thasni Banu</title>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Kerala responded to Thasni Banu</title>
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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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		<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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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anindita Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, this site has been on unofficial hiatus for the last few months. A host of life changes including pregnancy, a move from Bangalore to Mumbai and huge amounts of work have left me short on time and more importantly, on mind space. My sincere apologies to those who have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Extract: The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/11/06/book-extract/</link>
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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>
		<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>Two Poems</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/10/04/two-poems-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Haridas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to escape a Skinner box Electronic relationships are the easiest to erase Reject all phone calls, Blacklist the number, Block him everywhere Just hit the ‘delete’ button and it’s all over Go without talking to him this minute and you can Go the next and the next and for every minute after that As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberries</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/09/09/strawberries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Bora</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a mistake. You didn’t expect this glitch. This vanishing point of a private murmuring city. This fumbling in a void of spreading formlessness (they told you it would be a flower, not a slit). Greedy mouth, how many fingers can you swallow? In the movies, you would unzip her out of her dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-year of the hausfrau</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/08/19/half-year-of-the-hausfrau/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/08/16/the-unbearable-lightness-of-skin-colour/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/08/16/the-unbearable-lightness-of-skin-colour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki Goel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1925</guid>
		<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'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>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/07/23/how-kerala-responded-to-thasni-banu/#comments</comments>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Bodies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being Belindas (a response to Pope'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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