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	<title>Lapses of lingy...</title>
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		<title>Treasures from the village</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/27/treasures-from-the-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[handicrafts from india]]></category>
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COUPLE of months back I stumbled upon a website called Villcart, which sells handmade products online. I read about it on a site called The Better India (TBI), which chronicles stories of progress – initiatives by Indian people that have led to social impact of some sort.
Interestingly, TBI itself could be considered as an initiative [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Birds and the bees</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/17/birds-and-the-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal lovers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT gives me the most pleasure during my morning stroll is clicking pictures of my feathery, furry friends. This one time I spotted parrots and peahens pecking away, and they were sharing their meal with the squirrels. Some pigeons were waiting in the wings. They seems quite oblivious to a human presence until a hefty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love from Washington DC</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/16/love-from-washington-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dcthrumyeyes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sudeshna]]></category>
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		<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>Paradise ailing</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/11/paradise-ailing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A JOURNO once quizzed the big bully of Goan politics, and the latter rattled off a quick retort. “On what grounds?” the journo probed. “On Fatorda Grounds,” the minister smugly responded, a pun on the venue, which used to be a fairground where theatre, sports and well, fairs, were frequent happenings.
In 1989, a stadium was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goa diaries II &#8211; Isle of hope&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/09/down-by-the-riverside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hunkleberry finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ilha de rachol]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
THE SHENANIGANS of lil&#8217; Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn sprang to mind as we travelled down to the ole’ riverside of Ilha De Rachol, located a stone&#8217;s throw away from my native village Raia in Goa.
“In the 1600s, our ancestors who lived here, ran away to escape the plague,” my father shared as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goa diaries I</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/08/08/goa-diaries-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[karvy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nandan Nilekani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
     HAVE any transgender folks come to register yet?” I asked the young girl screening the UID applications at the Karvy outlet in Margoa. She smiled coyly, shaking head vigourously.
Ahh. Only men and women, it seems have frequented their office at the rate of 60 to 70 a day. You [...]]]></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>

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		<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>Money and spirituality &#8211; where the twain meets</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/26/money-and-spirituality-where-the-twain-meets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/26/money-and-spirituality-where-the-twain-meets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[daily gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wes hopper]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.merrildiniz.com/?p=1352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[words of wisdom by wes hope, the guru of daily gratitude...]]></description>
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		<title>Girls just wanna have fun&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/24/back-to-school-behind-the-scenes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.merrildiniz.com/2011/07/24/back-to-school-behind-the-scenes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merril</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[career planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Careers360]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rajat rao]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A COUPLE of months back I visited a school on the outskirts of Noida. The address didn’t mention a sector number, which made it tough to locate as people in Noida are now programmed to think in sectors. “What do you expect? This is a poor community,” the principal said. My experience culminated in an [...]]]></description>
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