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		<title>Fear and Loathing in Jaipur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two occasions when I have felt as though I have woken from the dead. The first was, aged 16, after I had an operation on my back, which had required a general anesthetic.
The second was last Friday when I came ‘to’ so to speak following a week off work ill following my trip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2010/02/03/fear-and-loathing-in-jaipur/</link>
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		<title>Blocked toilets, the rich and famous and the wonders of Rajasthani music at Jaipur&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The toilets may have been blocked, the wine in short supply, the queues for food off-putting, and the sound technology terrible, but the range of arts and writing displayed at the Jaipur Literature festival made up for the chaotic infrastructure.
I arrived at the Festival in a rickshaw at 11am on the Friday. I could see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2010/01/27/blocked-toilets-the-rich-and-famous-and-the-wonders-of-rajasthani-music-at-jaipur/</link>
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		<title>The Mumbai gymming culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was 7pm. I was sat at my desk and a whole pile of work was awaiting me. But I felt brain dead. I mulled about attending an art party, or a more attractive option, going home and sleeping. Or a less attractive one: continuing the work over an expresso in Barista.
Then a text appeared. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2010/01/20/the-mumbai-gymming-culture/</link>
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		<title>How to solve the racist attacks in Australia on Indians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write on another subject today, but have just watched a Times Now report on racism in Australia and I feel I have to pen something on it.
I am shocked that the Australian media is now devoting space to trashing the Indian media, claiming it is giving sensationalist reporting to the attacks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2010/01/13/how-to-solve-the-racist-attacks-in-australia-on-indians/</link>
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		<title>The Indian Dream – a reality check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Hindustan Times recently, on the comment pages, Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research at Harvard University, wrote an opinion piece called The Indian Dream. The views expressed were the personal views of the author.
“There is a new brain drain underway, and the direction of this flow is from America to India,” it read.
You can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2010/01/06/the-indian-dream-%e2%80%93-a-reality-check/</link>
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		<title>A white Christmas in England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming home for Christmas is like a predictable film. The same little rituals and squabbles happen every year.  And this year was no different. So, I arrived in my parent&#8217;s home in Somerset and the thatched cottage was tastefully decorated with Christmas cards hanging from the ceiling&#8217;s wooden beams.
The tree lay undecorated, since that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2009/12/30/a-white-christmas-in-england/</link>
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		<title>Mumbai and London: the straddle across two cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the flight landed, I pulled my thermal top, socks, jumper and blue fleece out of my carry-on bag. Within minutes I was transformed from sandals and a T shirt Mumbaikar to girl-about-London in woollies.
I was at Heathrow, returning to the UK for Christmas. Several middle-aged Indian women on my flight were dressed in silky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2009/12/23/mumbai-and-london-the-straddle-across-two-cities/</link>
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		<title>Back at Wasabi and the Harbour Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been many developments on the Mumbai nightlife scene in the past month.
Bars and clubs are launching or reopening all over the place here, and I’m getting invited to launches almost every night - since it’s the season now and the recession appears to be over.
Anyway, here I will write about one reopening that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2009/12/16/back-at-wasabi-and-the-harbour-bar/</link>
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		<title>Is commercial surrogacy in India ethical?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was asked to be a judge at an Indian High Schools debating contest – the Debating Matters Competition – something connected to the British Council. It was quite an unusual task for me to take on as I a) have nothing to do with and never have had anything to do with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2009/12/09/is-commercial-surrogacy-in-india-ethical/</link>
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		<title>The eternal dating and marriage dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been doing some more research on the Indian men/white men vs Indian women/white women dating scene.
I met a female NRI from the States, who now lives back in the Mumbai at the weekend, for a coffee. And my goodness, we bonded.She had story after story about her troubles dating Indian men in Mumbai. So, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/expat-on-the-edge/2009/12/02/the-eternal-dating-and-marriage-dilemma/</link>
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