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Blogs

Emergic: Rajesh Jain's Blog
• Blog Past: Train, Trek and Temples
• Weekend Reading
• A Summer of Travel
• A Nation Adrift
• Three Thrillers
• A Refreshing Change at Mumbai Airport
• Madras Cafe
• Blog Past: Writing
• Weekend Reading
• Shadow Cabinet

WSJ.com: The Informed Reader
• Informed Reader Signs Off
• A Global Warming Skeptic Is Challenged
• How the U.S. Gave Iran the Upper Hand
• As Glaciers Melt, Can Artificial Ones Fill the Gap?
• Iraqâ€™s Policewomen Are Again Allowed to Carry Guns
• Some Nuclear Secrets Need to Be Shared
• A Novel Way to Cut Waste: Lose the Cafeteria Trays
• Can the Novella Save Literature?
• Why Technology Didnâ€™t Help Find Steve Fossett
• Why Doesnâ€™t Acid Hurt the Naked Mole Rat?

Indiblog
• Pakistan sponsors terrorism, USA sponsors Pak â€“ India caught between a rock and a hard place
• Nightclubs closed for the night â€“ deadlines stifle Indian parties
• Have you ever bribed a public official? [Poll]
• Indians should send Aid flotilla to Gaza, as should rest of the world
• Dirtiest Indian cities, even the cleanest are not clean enough
• A Suitable Boy: Tantalizing, get sucked into a magical world
• Discount Designer Brands shopping online in India
• Arundhati Roy lambasts USA for waging war while miming peace
• My Name is Sham!!!
• When Michael Jackson Rocked Mumbai
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• Insensitive ruckus over decriminalization of gay sex in India
• Moral police â€“ Rise of the Hindu Taliban
• Anti-sodomy law invalid: 1500 animal species practice homosexuality
• Karunanidhi criticizes Hindus because India is secular â€“ whatâ€™s the logic?
• Wrongly blaming Indian Muslim backwardness for terrorism
• Dangerous Rise of the Religious Right in India
• Ministries wrangle over the law against homosexuality
• India-US relations under President Barack Obama
• Nuclear deal: India defied domestic pressure, now faces international pressure
• Masks and protests mark Indiaâ€™s gay pride parades
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Just a little something
• The North beckons!
• A monsoon ride to Linger
• Thursdayâ€™s tidbits
• Saluting an invisible population
• Hello India in Bangalore!
• The Namesake(s)
• Girls on the Run: Second edition
• No cycles please; weâ€™re a star hotel!
• Sun behind the Clouds
• Tuk-tuk calling!

Selective Amnesia
• Stuart Prior, on top of Ladder, Berkeley, Gloucester [Flickr]
• Igne Barkauskaite, mid swing, Bristol [Flickr]
• Neythal
• The Church of Everywhere, England [Flickr]
• The thirtysecond Chennai PhotoWalk
• Translation, re-interpretation, the authorâ€™s voice and Bharathiyar
• Karna considers Yuanfen in Tamil
• (Untitled) [Flickr]
• à®¤à¯€à®°à¯à®¤à¯à®¤à®•à¯ à®•à®°à¯ˆà®¯à®¿à®©à®¿à®²à¯‡: The pain of separation
• * crackle * * tinkle * * splat * and the 31st Chennai PhotoWalk
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• Balanced [Flickr]
• The thirtieth Chennai PhotoWalk
• Red earth and pouring rain
• More Aural pleasure
• On things
• Links for 2009-12-15 [del.icio.us]
• Links for 2009-11-25 [del.icio.us]
• Links for 2009-11-16 [del.icio.us]
• Links for 2009-10-18 [del.icio.us]
• Links for 2009-09-07 [del.icio.us]
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Amardeep Singh
• Changing Blog Host: Electrostani.com
• SALA Conference Program 2009
• From "Pinocchio" to "Astro-Boy": Fairy Tales and Sci-Fi
• Nose-Piercing, Utah, and a Big Oops (Not Mine) [Updated]
• New and Forthcoming Publications
• Fall Teaching: "Global English" and "Converts and Rebels"
• "I Wanna Be Like You": The Jungle Book, Revisited
• Guest Post by Narayan: More on Madras, Elihu Yale, Hiram Bingham
• "Victory Becomes the Defeat of the Good": Ram Narayan Kumar
• Vinay Lal, "The Other Indians"
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• A Little on Gauhar Jaan
• "Intellectually Black and Socially South Asian": Michael Muhammad Knight
• The Sort of Book You Actually Want to Write: â€œBig Sidâ€™s Vincatiâ€
• Shameless Literary Tourism in Dublin: Bloomsday 2009
• 'I Hope You Feel Better Soon': Hello From Ireland
• Review: "Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance"
• Review: Amit Varma's "My Friend Sancho"
• Mimicry and Hybridity in Plain English
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: A Few Reflections
• Two "Lucky" Films
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In Search...
• Raavan â€“ In defence of the saint and sinner
• Essaying a career
• The notion of peace
• Two movies: One take
• OMG, Change can be disastrous.
• Destroying the Buzz
• We are like this only!
• Idjits
• A hard dayâ€™s workâ€¦
• Meeting the Maldivians