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	<description>Lefty Locus, Desi Focus</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 12:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 12:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Champion of freedom?</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/champion-of-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BENAZIR BHUTTO was hailed by many in the Western media as Pakistan&#8217;s last hope for democracy and a crusader against the military dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf. Her assassination, consequently, has been talked about as a blow to Pakistan&#8217;s hopes for democracy and stability.
The media, predictably enough, was following the U.S. government&#8217;s lead. Soon after Bhutto&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With &#8220;communists&#8221; like these&#8230; (TINA is back!)</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/with-communists-like-these-tina-is-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s sonorous declaration of TINA&#8211;There Is No Alternative (to capitalism)? Well, TINA is back!
Many moons ago (October 5, 1995, to be precise), back when Jyoti Basu was still the official party boss of the CPI(M), he had declared in very erudite terms to a New York Times reporter, that although &#8220;[a] debacle has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, and yes I am still alive (and barely kicking)&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/hello-and-yes-i-am-still-alive-and-barely-kicking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[sporadic blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; in the blogosphere, I mean. Yes, I have been in hibernation through the Fall semester. And now that it&#8217;s winter, and the squirrels are scurrying back to their little cubby holes in my neighbor&#8217;s roof, I am back. Well, not really&#8211;I am still very busy with some deadlines at work, and my posts are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faiz on Freedom</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/faiz-on-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Independence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This one comes from Pranav Jani over at ScarletGuju. He writes:
 &#8220;Subh-e Azad&#8221; (&#8220;Dawn of Freedom&#8221;) by the brilliant Urdu Marxist poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, best expresses to me the sense of tragedy and possibility of 1947 for ordinary people caught in the worldwind of historical events: an independence brokered through ethnic cleansing, refugee crisis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts on 60 years of independence</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/random-thoughts-on-60-years-of-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Independence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yasin Malik]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whose Nation? Whose Independence?
What, to the dalit, is the 15th of August? What, to the adivasis, have these sixty years brought? What, to working-class men and women, do today&#8217;s celebrations mean?
In 1841, the anti-slavery crusader and abolitionist Frederick Douglass asked of his white American audience, &#8220;What, to the Negro, is the Fourth of July?&#8221; In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;India Shining,&#8221; indeed</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/india-shining-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poverty and inequality continue to plague Indian society, even in these days of corporate partying. While India&#8217;s fabulously wealthy rulers are busy acquiring luxury cars and private jets, (not to mention the fact that some of this wealth comes dripping with blood) hundreds of millions continue to languish in poverty and misery.
&#8220;Oh come on, Mamu,&#8220; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good newspapers, shoddy news</title>
		<link>http://leftyprof.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/good-newspapers-shoddy-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even newspapers like The Hindu sometimes screw up. Blogger Vivek shows us why it is important to not blindly accept everything you read in the papers in a recent post.
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