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		<title>Skin off the BJP’s nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a forgotten memory from the not-so distant past but with the RSS much in the news today in its bid to clean up the BJP and give the party new direction, I suddenly recalled their door-to-door campaign in Maharashtra nearly a decade ago (November 2000 to be precise).I worked for the Outlook at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/11/20/skin-off-the-bjp%e2%80%99s-nose/</link>
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		<title>The Third Sex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the Election Commission announced that eunuchs can finally vote and contest elections. They will no longer have problems about their sexual identity – they can write themselves in as &#8220;Other&#8221; and don’t have to be necessarily &#8216;Male or &#8216;Female&#8217;.
Considering the Supreme Court verdict on gays, this was bound to happen sooner or later. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/11/13/the-third-sex/</link>
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		<title>The stars don’t always foretell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, I was fascinated to read my colleague Pankaj Vohra’s account, on his blog, of astrologers and diviners who mostly got it right. But I have not been so fortunate &#8212; I have yet to meet one who doesn’t go wrong!
Perhaps New Delhi has the genuine variety but, in Bombay, I have noticed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/11/06/the-stars-don%e2%80%99t-always-foretell/</link>
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		<title>Mind Your Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up speaking English because that was the common language between my parents – my father’s Hindi wasn’t even half-way as good as my mother’s English. And most certainly not her Hindi. Her Tamil was no match for his Malayalam. So English it was at home.
But that was sheer accident of birth which got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/10/30/mind-your-language/</link>
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		<title>A Happy Chinese Diwali!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;See!&#8221; my sister said, with a good deal of satisfaction that she had proved her point. &#8220;That is why I have been telling you for months that Raj Thackeray is right when he says locals should have first priority at jobs in their own home states. What is your reaction all about now if not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/10/23/a-happy-chinese-diwali/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Bombay&#8217; meri hai!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a television programme last week that was debating the controversy over the use of the term &#8216;Bombay&#8217; by Karan Johar in his film Wake up, Sid and his apology to Raj Thackeray, I said I steadfastly refuse to call the city that has been my karmabhoomi anything but &#8216;Bombay&#8217;.
I was interrrupted by a member [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/10/16/bombay-meri-hai/</link>
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		<title>Send your cow to us ….</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost at the end of yet another election in Maharashtra, I am both saddened and nostalgic.
Sad, because this election proved to me that, after Sharad Pawar and Bal Thackeray, there are less and less real leaders among the men (and women) in politics. And that brought about a deep nostalgia for the past when covering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/10/09/send-your-cow-to-us-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>The happiness of being cheerfully yourself!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is for Raj Thackeray&#8230;.
For the past two weeks, I have been constantly on the road, gathering stories for our State of the State coverage prior to elections in Maharashtra due on October 13.
I have been to remote villages, walked six kms and back through jowar and tuar fields and hilly terrains to reach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/10/02/the-happiness-of-being-cheerfully-yourself/</link>
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		<title>I am just loving it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been on the road all across Maharashtra for the past ten days and I must admit, in typical Hinglish-speak, I Am Loving It!
It is election season in Maharashtra again and my mind goes back to the Eighties when I covered election campaigns in the rural areas, getting to the villages strap-hanging in buses, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/09/25/i-am-just-loving-it/</link>
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		<title>Merry, merry, merry-go-round!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am always amazed by the fact that life always tends to come full circle in various ways, big or small.
Nearly ten years ago, one day, I needed to go from Churchgate to Gaiwadi in the heart of the old South Bombay but every one of the first three cabbies I hailed turned me down. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/singly-political/2009/09/18/merry-merry-merry-go-round/</link>
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