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		<title>She Baba is off to be a She Babu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true. God moves in mysterious ways His wonders (blunders?) to perform. I&#8217;ve just quit HT after almost-four intense years, to take up a new assignment for the MEA as Director of a new India Cultural Centre in Bangkok. My new boss there will be our Ambassador to Thailand. So if you&#8217;re in Bangkok, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/07/11/she-baba-is-off-to-become-a-she-babu/</link>
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		<title>Sex and scripture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apropos of the ongoing legal review of homosexuality in India, here&#8217;s what three men of cloth have to say about &#8220;unnatural sex.&#8221;
&#8220;The Quran inherits its views on homosexuality and unnatural sex from its chronological predecessors, the Torah and the Bible. It defines itself as &#8216;Ad-deen-al-fitr&#8216;, the natural law, and imposes restrictions on several things considered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/07/02/sex-and-scripture/</link>
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		<title>Thiruvananthapuram!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in deep withdrawal for Kerala. Just two days this week in Thiruvananthapuram for a National Seminar on Indian Classical Dances hosted by the Kerala government.  But those two days were pure happiness because a) I was in South India, b) it was raining and &#8216;lastly but not leastly&#8217; as we Indians like to say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/06/25/thiru-ananta-puram/</link>
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		<title>Foot-in-mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week my halo slipped a bit. I lost my temper with someone quite unnecessarily and snarled at them. I went back to say sorry and sincerely repented my little outburst. But then I thought of someone quite the opposite, who is actually celebrated for having his foot in his mouth. Here&#8217;s His picture, done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/06/11/foot-in-mouth/</link>
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		<title>Wheels within wheels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been to visit my ancestral deity, Sri Venkateswara &#8216;Balaji&#8217; at Tirupati since I was dragged there as a little girl to have my head ritually shaved.
Of late, I&#8217;ve been feeling wistful about not having gone there since Class Three (merely saw Tirupati from the air once, on a flight to Madras). 
Suddenly, two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/06/04/wheels-within-wheels/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;I have answered three questions…&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes virtue is really its own reward.
I finally got around to cleaning up two ready-to-burst desk draws in office and found a precious lost book. It used to live in my bag for years, so I&#8217;m thrilled to get it back. It&#8217;s an anthology of verse and prose for private circulation made in 1992 by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/05/28/i-have-answered-three-questions%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Fanspan of the Flower and Willow World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all that talk about apsaras I&#8217;m pining to see some good dance and can&#8217;t find any this week in this wretched heat except for a &#8217;sushi platter&#8217; of a two-day dancefest, each day featuring ten-ten dancers in a big medley. You can&#8217;t really register anything in the whirl and I&#8217;m not going. 

Instead, I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/05/21/fanspan-of-the-flower-and-willow-world/</link>
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		<title>If it&#8217;s trite, it&#8217;s right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With election results out and everyone suddenly blessed with perfect 20-20 hindsight, I wonder at the astrologers and soothsayers. Some of my most &#8216;rational&#8217; friends have perfect faith in astrology but it all depends on the nature and skill of the practitioner, they say. Me, I don&#8217;t know.
I mean, there was this really old astrologer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/05/18/if-its-trite-its-right/</link>
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		<title>The Princess who lost her face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever met anybody called Draupadi? I have, just once, two decades ago. She was the fabulous cook-housekeeper to an IAS officer in the Rajasthan cadre, Mrs Kusum Prasad. I lived in Jaipur then and knew almost nobody in town until I met Kusumji.
It was in her house that I first heard an HMV [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/05/07/the-princess-who-lost-her-face/</link>
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		<title>Bring on the Dancing Girls!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time let’s bring on the dancing girls, such an old story but such fun to re-tell.
It’s so peculiar really how all those grumpy old men and their grumped-out patriarchal religions blame women for everything on earth and often treat them like serious lowlife…but also offer them as rewards in heaven. I mean, check out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/she-baba/2009/04/30/bring-on-the-dancing-girls/</link>
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