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	<title>Lapses of lingy... &#187; Relationships</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
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		<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>Goodbye old life&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/11/27/934/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[barkha dutta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typed on November 26, 2009:
Last year, on this very day, I was headed back to Mumbai post accepting a job offer in Delhi, Noida to be more precise. The previous night I remember watching on TV (in the days when I used to watch telly), bullets flying around at Leo’s in Colaba. I presumed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking up is easy.</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/11/21/breaking-up-is-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vince vaugh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new good friend who shared some insights on the modern-day marriage. She crossed over (to the dark side) eight years back and drew an analogy between the characters of the 2006 film, The Break-up and the stakeholders of her own marraiges, and tried to explain why she and hubby work as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Rules</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/09/02/new-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/09/02/new-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher’s New Rules, a collection of his politically incorrect commentary, denigrates everything from Bush to celebrity flashers to terrorism to virginity pledges, with a dash of humour, lots of audacity and at least one reference to some aspect of popular culture.
It fuels my liberal leanings with a flourish, and inspired by his observations, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dilli Way</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/08/18/the-dilli-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has finally dawned upon moi &#8212; trust no one, and be nice to no one, unless you have good reason to. You can be polite of course. But nice&#8230;I would ask you to wait a wee bit before extending niceties to the average Jo.
Even if people seem nice, ask yourself very objectively: are their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Or White</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/07/25/black-or-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[photographer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all have a certain &#8220;type&#8221; we are attracted to. A twenty-something single Indian male friend shared,&#8221; I want to date a woman who is either very, very fair, or very, very dark.&#8221; 
No cliche there. I pondered a bit and then it struck me. He&#8217;s a photographer who only takes pictures in black and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy &#8216;n&#8217; Gay</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/07/03/gaypeople/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/07/03/gaypeople/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the way to work this morning, I voraciously combed the paper for all dope on the HC&#8217;s judgement to decriminalise homosexuality. My eyes grew moist, as I thought about all my friends in the gay community.
Yesterday’s high court judgement was long overdue. But a colleague observed with scepticism, “I doubt it will change the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Friends &#8216;n&#8217; old friends</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/06/14/new-friends-n-old-friends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/06/14/new-friends-n-old-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Noida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr Jo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ode to Dr Jo]]></description>
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		<title>THE DARNEDEST THING!</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/05/09/the-darndest-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2009/05/09/the-darndest-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A close friend of mine said the darnedest thing to me the other day; if the circumstances were different he would have pursued me and asked me to marry him. Apparently he thinks my personality is very appealing. I inquired about these circumstances, and he refused to comment.
And so, insightful, nosey me, I elaborated for [...]]]></description>
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