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		<title>Confronting Unethical Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In the beginning was “Malayala Manorama”, the leading daily of Kerala, renowned for spreading venomous propaganda. It churned the waters of Periyar vowing to demolish the Mullai Periyar dam, and fixed the spurious “time – bomb” in the minds of Keralalites, through its article entitled “Mulla Periyar is about to explode” (1978).  Then there came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=175&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misrepresenting Periyar and his legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions can be raised either to put forward one&#8217;s own preconceived answers or problematize existing paradigms. The author of the article &#8220;Questioning Periyar&#8217;s legacy&#8221;(12.03.03) Mr. Ravikumar M.L.A has done it the former way and it has to be questioned in the latter manner. Periyar The author has been raising the same &#8216;questions&#8217; &#8216;rigorously&#8217; for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=168&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a Salesman &#8211; Jyoti Basu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 19, 2010 truthdive.com “Outside the hall there were members of an organisation called the Indian Progressive Study Group. They were handing out free pamphlets with a bold front page slogan bannered in red exhorting readers to: Expose and denounce the crime steeped lackey Jyoti Basu enemy of the Indian people. The pamphlet itself was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=156&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communist Party of India (Manuwadi) &#8211; CPI(M)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 19, 2010 truthdive.com Champions of secularism, vanguards in the struggle against communalism, vehement crusaders (note: no jihadis) fighting America’s nuclear deal, uncompromising patriots – this is the self image that the CPI(M) often projects about itself in its political rhetoric. But, in spite of such proclamations, when it comes to core issues of democracy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=148&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War crimes turned to war games in the Sri Lankan election campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 9, 2010 truthdive.com Sri Lanka has once again come under international pressure to submit to a war crimes investigation in the wake of United Nations authenticating the video showing the brutal murder of prisoners by the Sri Lankan troops last year. Earlier, mid – December, the British daily The Times confirmed the video authentic, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=140&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media India grabbing on Australian stabbings!</title>
		<link>http://southasianperspectives.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/media-india-grabbing-on-australian-stabbings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 5, 2010 truthdive.com The stabbing and subsequent death of 21 year old Indian student Nitin Garg, in Australia has again provoked hues and cries, raising the specter of racism from the Indian media. The minister of External Affairs S M Krishna was quick to issue a statement to the effect of reprimanding the Australian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=130&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculture turns ‘exotic’ with science</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 8, 2010 truthdive.com Note: This “story” – as its is called in journalistic jargon &#8211; was ‘covered’ for “Dainik Bhaskar” the No. 1 Hindi Daily in the North Western states. It is published here with permission from “Dainik Bhaskar”. The Hindi version of the article can be read here: page 17, Jaipur e-paper edition, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=112&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ruchika case: legal loophole or bureaucratic blackhole?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 13, 2010 truthdive.com The Ruchika Girhotra case, has finally got some break through, with the arrest of Gajender Singh, the kingpin of inter–state vehicle lifting gang by the Haryana police. It may be reminded that, Ruchika’s brother Ashu was implicated falsely in an auto theft case in 1993, on the basis of Gajender Singh’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=96&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; Top 10 events!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 31, 2009 truthdive.com Note: The author of these futuristic observations is neither a political analyst nor an astrological adviser to any senior or junior politician. Hence, the readers are requested to take these random reflections on future events in their own spirit – damn seriously. 1. January 15. Our beloved Chief Minister of Tamil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=76&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valarmathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This review article was written in 2003. A more elaborate version in Tamil was published in a Tamil little magazine. It is the same phenomenon. It is the same drama acted all over again, everywhere. The same avantgarde, by virtue of not being in touch with the masses. The same felt obsession with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southasianperspectives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8148125&amp;post=26&amp;subd=southasianperspectives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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