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	<title>Lapses of lingy... &#187; Delhi</title>
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	<description>...and all that jazz</description>
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		<title>Fish with a hobby</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/22/fish-with-a-hobby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fish eating dead skin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fish pedispa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garra rufa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EACH time I walked passed the pedispa at one of these Delhi malls, I would think &#8220;Mmmm&#8230;that could be interesting&#8221;. So, one day, I found myself immersing both feet in a trough of water and garra rufa fish.
The fish were swimming at leisure but human toes seem to pique their interest. Soon they were nibbling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love from Washington DC</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/16/love-from-washington-dc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/16/love-from-washington-dc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dcthrumyeyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postcard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sudeshna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[washington DC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ON a bleak Monday morn in Delhi, I received a lovely postcard from Washington DC. I think of DC as the New Delhi of US, and what DC is to Delhi is what New York is to Mumbai, except that everything is cleaner. Suddenly it was a bleak Monday morn no more! My friend Sudu had sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little artists</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/28/little-artists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/28/little-artists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puppies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ALWAYS considered myself to be hopeless with kids (unlike with puppies and kitties). But perhaps I am not as hopeless as I anticipated. The two rascals who live above my office did something so sweet – it put smiles on my face and a spring in my step. I walked into office one morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cities changing people</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/09/cities-changing-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new delhi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it a coincidence that two people on the very same day relate how the city over time, has altered the fabric of their personalities?
“Delhi has made me a really, really mean person,” fesses&#8217; M, the soft contours of her face turning jagged as she explains how this sweet girl morphed into a hard-nosed woman. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal care internship</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/08/animal-care-internship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/08/animal-care-internship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal lovers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattarpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red paws rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sai ashram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteers with animal shelters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MY four-Sunday internship with Red Paws Rescue kicked off last week, and though I have been planning to blog about it, I have procrastinated all week long! Of course, this has nothing to do with my motivation levels for the internship itself, which was a both a learning experience AND an eye opener about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two faces of the wife thrasher</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/12/08/two-faces-of-the-wife-thrasher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/12/08/two-faces-of-the-wife-thrasher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I WAS single-mindedly focused on work, yoga and helping sis settle into life in Dilli, when this self-indulgent reverie was nipped in the bud by the sounds of a woman in distress. She was being thrashed by her husband, a night watchman by profession, and was being called foul things like “badmash aurat” and “gundi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delusional ideas about the calibre of poor children!</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/07/31/poor-children-have-a-poor-caliber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/07/31/poor-children-have-a-poor-caliber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ameeta watsal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnad goswami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bethany high school in bangalore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I switched on the news recently and there she was – a parent whose child studies at Bethany High school (Bangalore), saying something to this effect: “How can you place two types of children – poor and rich – students of different “calibre” alongside in the same class?” The assumption was that the calibre of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are you scared of a Muslim?</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/06/14/single-muslim-career-girl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/06/14/single-muslim-career-girl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muscat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burqa ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A COUPLE of weeks back a close friend from Mumbai popped down to Delhi for a work trip. Right off the bat I noticed she wasn’t sporting her pristine white Hijab; she donned it some years back as an experiment, felt comfy wearing it. It was here to stay. Or so we thought.
Sadly, this pristine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay night out!</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/03/31/gay-night-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/03/31/gay-night-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WHEN a gay fashion designer invites one for the opening of his new signature store, be ready for both drama and surprise. Not that all gay people are dramatic. Some folks are subtle, and prefer maintaining a low profile (such as my friend Sunshine).
But coming back to the evening, post working the zombie hour for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eggetarian days</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/03/27/eggetarian-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2010/03/27/eggetarian-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bullfighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetarianism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I AM giving eggetarianism a serious shot. It’s not a health and fitness decision, but an emotional one (as my Editor pointed out); I realise that I can no longer suffer the cruel methods used to butcher animals in this country (maybe others, too).
One of the worst killing rituals I have witnessed is the excruciatingly [...]]]></description>
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