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	<description>A SITE FOR INDIAN FEMINISTS</description>
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		<title>Chennai’s Moral Police</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN CHENNAI, the term “moral police” is too often a literal one. Two relatively high-profile recent incidents cast the city’s police force in a frightening light, as enforcers of a deeply misogynistic worldview who go as far as to violate the law in order to uphold their principles. In the first case, a married woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sporty Conversation on Gender in the Academy</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2010/05/25/a-sporty-conversation-on-gender-in-the-academy/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2010/05/25/a-sporty-conversation-on-gender-in-the-academy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oishik Sircar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERE&#8217;S A PART IMAGINARY, part real email thread of conversations among faculty members at an elite law university in India. Two developments are being discussed simultaneously – one is a weekly cricket match, and the second is the establishment of a women-only Women’s Law Society. The names of participants in the conversation have been changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Independence Day Autocritique</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/08/23/an-independence-day-autocritique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oishik Sircar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANS ACROSS THE WORLD celebrated their independence day with dampened fervour over the past week, to salvage nationalist pride out of the economics of infection and pathology of recession. While all this was happening, two incidents caught my attention. First, was a talk show on CNN-IBN discussing whether independent India is open to homosexuality, aired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Madhu Bhushan (cont&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/01/27/interview-with-madhu-bhushan-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha B N</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS IS Part 2 of the two-part interview with Madhu Bhushan of Vimochana. UB: The feminist movement has always been very critical of militarism and war. Can u tell us more about your involvement with these issues? MB: While Vimochana’s specific concern was and is the socially sanctioned personal forms of violence perpetrated on women [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Same-Sex Love: In Conversation with Dr Ruth Vanita</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/08/18/same-sex-love-in-conversation-with-dr-ruth-vanita/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/08/18/same-sex-love-in-conversation-with-dr-ruth-vanita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meena Kandasamy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DR RUTH VANITA (b.1955), is a renowned academic and author specializing in lesbian and gay studies. Some of her acclaimed books include Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (2002), Love&#8217;s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (2005), and Gandhi&#8217;s Tiger and Sita&#8217;s Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scavengers As Models: Exploitation Chic or Empowering?</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/07/10/scavengers-as-models-exploitation-chic-or-empowering/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/07/10/scavengers-as-models-exploitation-chic-or-empowering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I FOUND this news story about Indian &#8220;sanitation workers&#8221; (scavengers, if we avoid the euphemism) modelling in New York pretty bizarre. I do hope you&#8217;ll read the article before proceeding to comment, but in a nutshell: 36 Indian sanitation workers were invited to a conference as part of the UN&#8217;s International Year of Sanitation. In [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Childbirth and Choices</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/03/29/childbirth-and-choices/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/03/29/childbirth-and-choices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Band</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHILE THE FEMINIST movement may have focused more on the right to abortion than other reproductive rights, there is a growing acknowledgment in the US and elsewhere that women&#8217;s right to safe, natural childbirth is being severely threatened by the imposition of the medical model. In the medical system, pregnant women are treated as &#8216;sick&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of Need and Exploitation: Domestic Workers in Karnataka</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/01/24/of-need-and-exploitation/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2008/01/24/of-need-and-exploitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Usha B N</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘I BEGAN WORKING when I was ten. I used to look after a child for which I was paid ten rupees a month. Today I am almost forty and I continue to work as a domestic maid. The difference is that my bones ache and I do not have the same energy. This is what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Launching Ultra Violet</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2007/08/27/welcome-to-ultra-violet/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2007/08/27/welcome-to-ultra-violet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anindita Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S A TIME of intense and rapid change in India. Women are stretching their wings, exploring new spaces and testing the boundaries of old ones. With more women working, traveling, living on their own or managing high-powered careers, new challenges have emerged. Some women are coping with increased independence or living alone. Others are trying [...]]]></description>
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