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		<title>Sri Lanka&#8217;s hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had time to write about this just yet, but you have to check out BBC&#8217;s Hard Talk intervew with the Sri Lankan Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights (sic). Stephen Sackur, the host of the show tears into him, castigating him for his government&#8217;s abominable record on human rights and press freedoms. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=98&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka&#8217;s War of Terror</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few people in the U.S. have paid attention to the island nation of Sri Lanka, and to the decades-long struggle for self-determination by the Tamil-speaking minority community. As the conflict has begun to instensify and make headlines in recent weeks, the Sri Lankan government has done its utmost to control the story being told by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=86&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Mumbai attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TENSIONS ARE rising between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan after Indian politicians accused Pakistan of supporting or tolerating the armed groups responsible for the massacre in Mumbai, India&#8217;s largest city.

The sensational and senseless attacks killed nearly 200 people during a three-day rampage. The operation was reportedly carried out by a group of no more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=84&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of the Kashmir crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sanjay Kak is a filmmaker whose recently completed documentary, Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom) was made over a period of several years in Kashmir. I interviewed him on August 16, days after the mass protests began.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=81&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Appeal from Kashmiris</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received this earlier today.
-LP

APPEAL

 
Civil society calls for international intervention in Kashmir
 
Srinagar, Aug 27: In view of the deteriorating humanitarian situation and the media black out of the events in Kashmir, we call upon the international humanitarian agencies, particularly the UN bodies and world press to intervene immediately to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=72&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the Kashmiri intifada headed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A potentially world-historical event seems to be taking shape before our eyes. Its resolution, one way or another, will have lasting consequences, which will be felt far beyond the subcontinent.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=68&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal and the &#8220;Trust Vote&#8221; Spectacle</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/nuke-deal-and-trust-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIA&#8217;S RULING coalition came perilously close to losing a July 22 confidence motion in parliament as the result of a proposed U.S.-India nuclear treaty.
The crisis began as a result of a falling out between the ruling coalition, the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on the one hand, and its supporters in the Left Front, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=62&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty20, corporate leagues and Indian cricket</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/twenty20-corporate-leagues-and-indian-cricket/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[It worries me that cricket too is morphing into a clone of American sports culture.
Check out this article from the New York Times: it talks about American cheerleaders coming to Bangalore to hold a national cheerleader training of sorts! Don&#8217;t we have enough sexism at home? Do we have to import some more?
The problem is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leftyprof.wordpress.com&blog=1415022&post=61&subd=leftyprof&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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