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		<title>&quot;Amu&quot; : India&#039;s Wakeup Call to the 1984 #Rapes and Killings of #Sikhs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lessons from the Coconut in My Garden!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher ~ Gertrude Jekyll A coconutty breakfast this week – straight from my garden to my breakfast table.  I am lucky to have a garden, even if tiny, in this very polluted and congested city.  We are even luckier that there are many fruits in this garden – coconut, guava, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12675527&#038;post=954&#038;subd=ritabanerjisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plum Cakes and Jewish Immigrants in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Banerji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month David Nahoum, the owner of Calcutta&#8217;s last Jewish bakery, passed away.  It&#8217;s a store that has many fond memories for the families that belong to this city. For three generations, every Christmas, my family went to Nahoums &#38; Sons to get their rich plum cake.  I didn&#8217;t grow up in this city, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12675527&#038;post=941&#038;subd=ritabanerjisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Goddess Worship in India Have a Feminist Underpinning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the worship of goddesses in India have a feminist under-pinning?  This is one of the questions I was looking at while researching for my book Sex and Power. The answer to my question I found, was both ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’  I discovered that there were two main streams of religious thought that had completely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12675527&#038;post=928&#038;subd=ritabanerjisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holi: India&#039;s Forgotten Valentine&#039;s Festival!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Banerji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from The Sex and Power Discussion Blog: Unknown to many, the festival of Holi is actually a celebration of  India's ancient Valentine's Day! It was called 'The Festival of The Love God,' and was celebrated to coincide with the arrival of Spring (symbolic of lust and life) just as the western Valentine's Day is! [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12675527&#038;post=927&#038;subd=ritabanerjisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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