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		<title>Freedom of speech, Kamal Haasan, Ashis Nandy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The freedom to say what you think is always under threat. There will always be people who would give up freedom for temporary security (for ten points, complete the saying this sentence alludes to). Two stories interest me from the last week or so. Kamal Haasan has made some movie that talks about fundamentalist Islamic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2693&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and the internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet in India is like a nuclear warhead that's missing the fissile Uranium.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2468&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is not sexual revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am all for promiscuity. I want women to break free of the shackles of societally imposed “modesty”. I am also for easier access to pornography. But let's please label it as such, hmm?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2636&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sane among us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the laws regarding rape need to be re-written. But no amount of policing and jurisprudence will end the tragedy of rape if change doesn't begin at home and on the streets.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2626&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dented and Painted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Christmas day, fifteen of us went trekking at Ananthagiri, a clutch of low hills with some farms and some ponds, about 70 km from TIFR-Hyderabad. On our way down the steepest terrain I have done this sort of thing on, we had to crouch down under the thick shrubbery. At the bottom was a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2612&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On science meeting art, and travel-safe tablas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[C.V. Raman did this work while he was an accounts officer in the British government, and that this work got him elected to the Royal Society.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2589&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night Music &#8212; seriously good music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook friends list that posts some very cool music. It is apparently guitar season on my news feed; my ears aren&#8217;t complaining. I post the two that I liked best. The first one is Joe Bonamassa playing BB King&#8217;s The Thrill is Gone. This is brilliant. HT: Vales. &#60;break&#62; &#60;break&#62; The second [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2582&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linux NooB to World: Can you help me out?</title>
		<link>http://croor.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/linux-noob-to-world-can-you-help-me-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use Ubuntu. I&#8217;m running 12.04 Precise. My laptop has a 64-bit i5 processor with an AMD Radeon 6550 graphics card. Trying to troubleshoot a failed installation of the proprietary driver for the graphics card is another name for the fifth circle of hell. I am not kidding. [Edit: a correction, courtesy Sayash: X is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2576&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books to read in 2012-13</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is for future reference, posted here mostly because I&#8217;ve just realised that Facebook&#8216;s timeline is useless at being an archive. These are all books by good writers, and I recommend them to anybody reading this and willing to listen. I will buy them the first chance I get&#8211;which, with my access to free money, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2564&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh my. Apparently, people don&#8217;t take kindly to pictures of Ganesha with his&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://croor.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/oh-my-ganesha-with-his/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Croor Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a surprising amount of pushback about my posting a link to this The Onion article, and about my surprise that Facebook would censor a post with this link because somebody reported it as, I don&#8217;t know&#8211;obscene, offensive, blasphemous, take your pick. Which brings me back to: oh my. People really don&#8217;t take kindly [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=croor.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2923564&#038;post=2556&#038;subd=croor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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