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		<title>Why Can&#8217;t Women Own Land?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Wikigender and the Land Portal had organized an online discussion on ways to secure women&#8217;s rights to own land [for more click here].  Women may constitute approximately 50% of the human society (not counting India and China that are trying to push that percentage to zero!), however they own less than 2% of the &#8230; <a href="http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/why-cant-women-own-land/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12675527&amp;post=406&amp;subd=ritabanerjisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up On Dickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But what David Copperfield eventually became to my life is harder to describe.  I sometimes call it (him?) the measure of my life's growth.  Over the last 30 years, I have read David Copperfield many times.  And each time, my reading would be different, from the first time when I read it at 10.  And I realized that each time, my reading was a reflection of my growth in time, of where I was in life.    <a href="http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/growing-up-on-dickens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12675527&amp;post=393&amp;subd=ritabanerjisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Hate About The Book Fair I Love!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year the book fair organizers decided they will dole out thousands of pouches of free drinking water.  But for some reason they did not think to ask "And where will the public dump the empty pouches?"   <a href="http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/what-i-hate-about-the-book-fair-i-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12675527&amp;post=383&amp;subd=ritabanerjisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pot-luck Christmas Parties!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Banerji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this comes 2 weeks late, but that is the intention! Because this is not a post about the recently past Christmas, but about the many Christmases I celebrated as a child, many years ago, and how much I miss them as I watch the Christmases of today. As a child Christmas was perhaps &#8230; <a href="http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/pot-luck-christmas-parties/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12675527&amp;post=376&amp;subd=ritabanerjisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding &#8216;I&#8217; in Spanish Accents and Wind Chimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Banerji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But for me, the truly marvelous experiences in life, have been those that I was never exposed to growing up.   Things that are unfamiliar, and unknown, and yet, they resonate deeply with me -- like somehow we belong!   <a href="http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/finding-i-in-spanish-accents-and-wind-chimes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12675527&amp;post=316&amp;subd=ritabanerjisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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