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		<title>&#8220;Whoring after English Gods&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asmokescreen.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/whoring-after-english-gods/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lovely title, isn&#8217;t it? Perfectly describes the English-speaking minority in India. Not my genius - alas! - but that of the poet R. Parthasarathy.  The relevance will become crystal further down.
This is a first &#8230; blogging in the space of two days. The reason for this (rather pointless) productivity is that I&#8217;m disturbed. I could of course ventilate with the spouse and the kid. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving gay its due</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is this friend of mine who always introduces himself thus: &#8221;I&#8217;m &#8212;&#8211; and I&#8217;m gay.&#8221; A &#8217;straight&#8217; acquaintance once asked him, &#8221;If being gay is as natural as being straight, why do you have to announce it? I don&#8217;t tell the world I&#8217;m straight!&#8221; I have no idea what my friend said in response; the question was rhetorical anyway, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you say &#8220;Please&#8221; in &#8216;Indian&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://asmokescreen.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/how-do-you-say-please-in-indian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my pet theories (and there are many, though this one is teacher&#8217;s pet!) is that there is really nothing truly pan-Indian. Paradoxically, when speaking of India or Indians you often need to make pan-Indian generalizations, take recourse to stereotypes. Because it&#8217;s easier to speak of stereotypes than of vast, individual differences, isn&#8217;t it?  Allow me to elaborate.
One of my favourite urban legends, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from &#8230; er &#8230; nowhere</title>
		<link>http://asmokescreen.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/back-from-er-nowhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know. The blog has been silent for over a month. I offer only my stunningly original philosophy as explanation: I blog when I have something worthwhile to say, not because I have a blog. Ha!
It was vacation time last month and I was generally, languorously, indulging my latent laziness. That explains a lot doesn&#8217;t it? But there was work, too. Trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postscript (How Indian is my English?)</title>
		<link>http://asmokescreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/postscript-how-indian-is-my-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of e-mails the earlier post on Indian English prompted inspires this postscript. 
If speaking a language means speaking a culture, then what culture does Indian English reflect? Probably that of the elite, western-educated, upper classes.  Not very nice baggage for a language to be carrying, is it?! (This language-culture nexus, by the way, has its roots in the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.)
Indian [...]]]></description>
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