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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its Election day tomorrow. With the economy sliding faster than the downward spiral of a ride in &#8220;Great America&#8221;, we are justifiably nervous about the issues that have featured prominently on debates &#8211; albeit not always answered with clarity &#8211; the continuing war, government spending, tax reforms, jobs, education, mortages&#8230;
Sadly, in the Bay Area, even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lunaspace.wordpress.com&blog=2146920&post=812&subd=lunaspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of Missing the Boat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aditi raychoudhury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 1997, Los Angeles International Airport.
I had hesitantly pointed to a &#8220;doughnut&#8221; resting amidst other tantalizing treats behind a spotless glass case that now had been marred by my oily fingerprint. &#8220;A bagel, you mean?,&#8221; the server had politely replied.
Carrying a suitcase full of spices, and $ 200, I was &#8220;fresh off the boat&#8221;. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lunaspace.wordpress.com&blog=2146920&post=81&subd=lunaspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smells Fishy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aditi raychoudhury</dc:creator>
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Vincent Van Gogh. Bloaters on a Piece of Yellow Paper. Oil on Canvas. (1889)
Fish, and seafood are my non-vegetarian sources of protein. I love shrimp. Initially, I cut my consumption, to manage cholesterol, but more, after reading about the environmental damage caused by farmed-shrimp. Recently, a well-wisher was thrilled to find shrimp from India at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lunaspace.wordpress.com&blog=2146920&post=66&subd=lunaspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darfur: Never Again? Or Again, and Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aditi raychoudhury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was engaged in an academic debate recently -“Should the International Community militarily intervene in Darfur?” For me, it was an unequivocal, “Yes!!”
It is that time again in the journey of mankind. The one we call the “greatest humanitarian crisis”, “ a terrible mass atrocity” or some such pitiful phrase. The last century had plenty. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lunaspace.wordpress.com&blog=2146920&post=52&subd=lunaspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home! Home. Home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aditi raychoudhury</dc:creator>
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Me, Ma, Maiji, Dadabhai, Rini. Photo Credit:  Buddhadeva Raychoudhury, 1978.

July, 1987. I was 16. I was leaving home. The only home I had known till then. A small house in Raurkela. A small town in Eastern India, whose name literally means ‘home&#8217;.
I was moving to a wonderful school in a wonderful city, Kolkata, while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lunaspace.wordpress.com&blog=2146920&post=40&subd=lunaspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Death Become The End?</title>
		<link>http://lunaspace.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/does-death-become-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aditi raychoudhury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2,998 lives were lost in the attacks on 9/11.
Nearly 660,000 lives are estimated to be lost as a direct result of the War On Terror.
That’s nearly 220 lives paying for every life lost in the 9/11 attacks.
I don’t question the horror of 9/11. I remember watching the towers, with growing numbness, as they crumbled on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lunaspace.wordpress.com&blog=2146920&post=29&subd=lunaspace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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