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		<title>The Gaze</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up The Gaze after listening to a speech by the author on TED talks. I usually give a   book 50-100 pages to draw me in. And the first couple of chapters were bleak. I didn’t quite understand what was happening and where the plot was headed, mostly because I was busy deciphering a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=410&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literature at its shocking best</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 18, I wrote a short story for my college magazine. With a first person narrative, it was the story of a commercial sex worker from a ‘respectable’ middle class background who ‘chose’ to sell sex in an attempt to run away from her boring and rather predictable life. When I wrote it, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=386&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coloured? I am!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have learnt that in Tamil if you hear, “nalla colour da, macchaan” (“good colour dude”), it is usually a comment made by a guy to another guy about the skin colour of a passing lady who is ‘fair’. What a contrast to what ‘colour’ means in the western world of skin tones. In yesterday’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=382&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy for the illiterate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I continue my ramblings on education with Democracy for the illiterate &#160; &#160; &#160; Tagged: PostaWeek2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=374&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Srilanka Travelogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I moved my Srilanka travel diaries to my My Travels page which is on the top right panel of my blog. I promise to finish it this month so do read it. And here, I will continue my disjointed ramblings. Tagged: PostaWeek2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=362&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Javali after my own heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sumanyav</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes! I have a predilection for Javalis. Recently, I saw a kannada Javali called ‘Sako ninna sneha’ where the nayika(heroine) tells the nayaka (hero) ‘enough of all this (show/pretense) of love. Remember, you had a good time with her as well’. The music was in ragam Kapi set to Mishra Chapu talam. Before I rave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=345&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work Monotone(ou)s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wistful monotones emerge from my keyboard I look down to see whats causing them Only to feel silly for, These are my fingers Flying over the keyboard Causing the monotones. Listless monotones emerge from my keyboard. Tagged: beauty, Critiques, Identity, life, meaning, My Creations, Poetry, PostaWeek2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=334&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ranting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sumanyav</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok! This has to be written about. I am fuming. My heart is racing. I feel like I am being choked and stifled. Why? Because the Bangalore Municipal Coproration doesn’t allow me to do the one thing I want to do ( I need to do to retain my sanity) at any other time than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=331&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>सातवाँ खून किस का था?</title>
		<link>http://sumanya.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%81-%e0%a4%96%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b8-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%a5%e0%a4%be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sumanyav</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just  had a wonderfully lazy weekend thanks to Nikki. Our lethargies were in sync and we liked nothing better than to eat huge amounts of macaroni and cheese and watch tv and talk. And that’s what we did. But we did venture out Saturday evening to watch the movie सात खून माफ. Now, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=327&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Peter go back?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rather amazing turn of events in international politics serves as a reminder that even if you are saturated with ideas of revolution and political upheaval, so much so you suddenly yearn for stability when there’s been nothing but simply because you have been thinking about it for ever and you are exhausted, it’s still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sumanya.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6837077&amp;post=322&amp;subd=sumanya&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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