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		<title>My grandmother and the apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was showing my grandmother (that&#8217;s me and her above) and aunt my kindle when my aunt asked me whether it was made by Apple. &#8220;Apple, apple,&#8221; my grandmother (who has never used a computer before) said, &#8220;I know that name. The man who discovered the first apple just died. I read about him in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=568&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A sad little story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been carrying around the paper that had this sad little story in it for the past four days now, but I&#8217;ve been traveling so much that I did not have a chance to post it. Now, I&#8217;m finally sitting in my grandparents&#8217; house in Trivandrum and drinking coffee and listening to my grandpa do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=562&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>best protest I&#8217;ve ever seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now comes news of an amazing protest in rural Karnataka. I always wondered why people didn&#8217;t do this more here &#8211; if the authorities don&#8217;t give you a toilet like they were supposed to, just take a shit on their doorstep! Via the Times of India: &#8220;Toilet protest to wake up authorities&#8221; Basavaraj F Kattimani [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=559&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who writes these headlines?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s article is here largely because of the awesome headline. Seriously. It tells you everything you need to know about this story. Read the original here at the Times of India, Mumbai edition: &#8220;MEN BEHEAD WIVES, WALK WITH HEADS&#8221; (Yes, that&#8217;s right folks, that&#8217;s plural MEN, WIVES and HEADS!!!!) &#8220;Guwahati: An autorickshaw driver killed his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=553&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the prankster from Ambattur</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close readers of my blog (translation: my husband, hi!) will notice that the tagline has changed. The change came about for two reasons. First, it seems I don&#8217;t have enough urban musings to fill up a blog (i&#8217;m busy!). Second, I read a lot of news in Chennai, and I *love* it. English journalism here, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=550&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planner AND Critic? Maybe not&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about dance on this blog before, but I was recently asked to review a couple of dance performances for the New Indian Express. A copy of the edited version of the article is here. My unedited version is included below. Weirdly, even though I really enjoy writing about dance, I&#8217;m not sure I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=542&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bragha Bessell at the Dasyam festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year Mohiniattam dancer Gopika Varma puts on a festival at the Ananda Padmanabhaswamy temple in Adyar where she invites dancers to present programs of pieces composed by Swati Tirunal, the Travancore king-turned composer. The program is usually a mixed bag, with many younger dancers who struggle through the new Swati Tirunal pieces they learned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=536&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I was kind of&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#8230;annoyed at the president, but then I saw this. Awwww!!! Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=529&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We returned from a trip Bombay on Tuesday and we walked out into heat so intense it was like stepping into something solid. It makes everything and everyone move slowly, like the air here is made of molasses or something equally viscous. This actually mirrors our political situation: we in Tamil Nadu are waiting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=522&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strange times fly by</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose this is a strange day to start blogging again. After breakfast, we learned here that Osama bin Laden had been finally killed. He was hiding out in a mansion on a hill 35 miles from Islamabad. We watched the crowds around DC and New York celebrating on television at the office, and although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theviewfromchennai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5669190&amp;post=516&amp;subd=theviewfromchennai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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