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		<title>We have moved. Don&#8217;t Mind It!</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/dont-mind-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do? There is a new a new sheriff in this curry western and he&#8217;s wants all ranters in one place. He needs our help. We have orders to mind it, and a new location. We are like this only. Don&#8217;t mind it. Tagged: quick gun murugan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=111&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing of Birthing</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/outsourcing-of-birthing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://208rants.wordpress.com/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In some ways, childbirth is a no-brainer. In most cases, a woman gets pregnant and fast forward nine months later, a child is born. With few exceptions, the process is universal. The stuff that happens leading up to and immediately around the event of childbirth is also mostly universal, with a few exceptions. Outside the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=101&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have all the cows gone?</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/where-have-all-the-cows-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hello, Bunty beta, this is your mummy.&#8221; &#8220;Hi Mummy, what is the matter? Why are you calling this late?&#8221; Groggy. &#8220;Beta, I tell you all the time, don&#8217;t be American and say hai hai all the time. It is so inauspicious. Say hello to your mummy like a nice Indian boy.&#8221; &#8220;Sorry mummy. Namaste mummy-ji. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=75&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mummy, mummy. The big bad white man is saying nasty things about Indians</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/mummy-mummy-the-big-bad-white-man-is-saying-nasty-things-about-indians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parody of the multitude indignant responses to Joel Stein's recent article in Time<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=55&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian newspapers – reach for those chopsticks</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/indian-newspapers-reach-for-those-chopsticks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://208rants.wordpress.com/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ve probably reached the end of the internets more than once. That&#8217;s the feeling you get when you have exhausted every blog, newspaper and crappy sites with &#8220;popular&#8221; stuff guaranteed to kill a few gray cells. That&#8217;s when I turn to online websites of Indian newspapers. That&#8217;s also when I reach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=33&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why aren’t I Asian?</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/why-arent-i-asian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure this happened to me at school.  Teacher: &#8220;Class, say &#8216;India is in Asia.&#8217; Now everyone repeat five times&#8221;. Rote learning is designed to stick and I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d remember if India wasn&#8217;t a part of Asia. According to Wikipedia, Asia starts at Turkey and extends all the way to the tip of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=14&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joel Stein got your panties in a bunch?</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/joe-stein-got-your-panties-in-a-bunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about every US desi&#8217;s (boat and confused versions) got their panties all in bunch over  Joel Stein&#8217;s article. Let me get this right: a white dude who grows up in Edison, NJ, really doesn&#8217;t have the right to comment on the transformation of his town just because it got a shade darker? Is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=10&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awful desi Engish</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/awful-desi-engish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awful desi English seems to be just about everywhere (email, FB, you name it). The pundits say it started with SMS messaging &#8211; us cheap desis trying to squeeze more information into a text message to avoid paying for one more message. Its convenient, the proponents say, like a code, it&#8217;s shows your personality. Yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=6&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>White House Diwali – Yey Secularism, Nay Hindu Tradition</title>
		<link>http://208rants.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/white-house-diwali-yey-secularism-nay-hindu-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Destroyer of Evil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First the good stuff: I like Penn Masala. They&#8217;re have real talent, brand awareness, etc. I also like Kalpen Modi. Great actor. Does desis credit. And I like Obama, apple pie, etc. Credit goes to Bush (the nucular version) for celebrating Diwali in the White House, although he didn&#8217;t attend himself. Obama did, and 2009&#8242;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=208rants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14675970&amp;post=28&amp;subd=208rants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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