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		<title>Interesting, Changing Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The times they are a changing… We certainly live in interesting, changing times – stagnant economic output in the developed world coupled with high levels of debt not seen since 1970s in the UK; high unemployment; rising inflation; fall in real incomes and living standards; largest gap between rich and poor in decades; negative real &#8230;<p><a href="http://shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/interesting-changing-times/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28286692&amp;post=35&amp;subd=shantaacharyablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Guardian— Poem of the Week: Beware</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol Rumens features &#8216;Beware&#8217; as her &#8216;Poem of the Week&#8217;. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28286692&amp;post=27&amp;subd=shantaacharyablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perception &amp; the Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Oxford I attended a poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg where he spoke at length about India. His India was quite different from my India. By then I had learnt there were several ‘Indias’ just as there were several versions of ‘England’, ‘the West’ or ‘Vilayat’ that had been depicted to me, unsolicited, by various well-wishers and friends before I left India in 1979. Most of these individuals had never left India. In Oxford, I discovered my ‘West’ along with other people’s ‘East’ and their ‘Indias’ as they attempted to establish a means of communication with me, though they too had never been to India! Ginsberg had at least spent some time in India.<p><a href="http://shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/perception-the-self/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28286692&amp;post=18&amp;subd=shantaacharyablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Riots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one reconcile a peaceful vigil in a north London suburb turning into the worst riots in England for decades? Mark Duggan, 29, was killed on Thursday, 4 August 2011, in Tottenham, after police officers stopped the minicab in which he was travelling to arrest him. At the time of his death he was &#8230;<p><a href="http://shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/reflections-on-the-riots/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shantaacharyablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28286692&amp;post=11&amp;subd=shantaacharyablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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