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	<title>Eternally Dissatisfied</title>
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		<title>Shailesh Gandhi kisses your privacy goodbye</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/shailesh-gandhi-kissed-your-privacy-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Right to Information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I blogged about an important dispute related to the Right to Information Act. The dispute dealt with two issues 1) that of hard copy verus soft copy data 2) protecting the privacy of students.
Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi ruled on this issue. The good news: IITs have to provide a soft copy of the data. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=287&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why should I care about Jaimat&#8217;s resolutions?</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/why-should-i-care-about-jaimats-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Mr. Kanchan Gupta:
Posting here since I can&#8217;t condense this in a tweet.
Groups and individuals have a fundamental human right to express their opinions. You have a right disagree with their views publicly.
You have been relentlessly tweeting about their resolutions. I am wondering what makes you *so* worked up. I am sure there are so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=272&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Important RTI dispute involving the IITs</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/important-rti-dispute-involving-the-iits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi is going to hear an important dispute relating to the Right To Information act. Prof. Rajeev Sharma, a computer sciences professor at IIT Kharagpur has filed an RTI application seeking test scores of all applicants who appeared in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination in 2006. The JEE exam board is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=268&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On climate change, &#8216;Glenn Beck types&#8217; (Sagarika Ghose) descend on Indian TV</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/on-climate-change-glenn-beck-types-sagarika-ghose-descend-on-indian-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: I am not the only complaining. See Shoddy journalism by Sagarika Ghose on Global Warming.
Sagarika Ghose is currently a senior editor on CNN-IBN. I am not particularly a fan of her. To be fair to her, I might be misrepresenting her by taking issue with a couple of occasions where she has been, let&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=264&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statues make for better judges in India&#8217;s Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/statues-make-for-better-judges-in-indias-supreme-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[India&#8217;s founders could have installed statues in the Supreme Court to function as judges and these statues would have done a better job than India&#8217;s current crop of judges in the Supreme Court. For one, these statues wouldn&#8217;t be able to hear any stupid cases. Like the one about Mayawati and her statues.
I am absolutely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=263&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s police state in Manipur</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/indias-police-state-in-manipur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fake encounter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I very briefly mentioned about Indian Government atrocities in Manipur, while talking about the abject state of civil liberties in India.
On July 23rd this year calm unarmed Chongkam Sanjit, a 27-year old was murdered by Manipur police.  Here are a series of pictures that document Sanjit&#8217;s murder.  Shoma Chaudhury&#8217;s excellent story from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=261&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are morons&#8221;: Gujarat State Government</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/we-are-morons-gujarat-state-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gujarat state government banned Jaswant Singh&#8217;s book &#8220;Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence&#8221; and had this to say:
Jaswant Singh&#8217;s book questions role of Sardar Patel during the partition   of India as well as his patriotic spirit. This is an attempt to tarnish   the image of Patel who is considered the architect of modern united [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=258&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Indian outrage over Khan&#8217;s questioning justified?</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/is-indian-outrage-over-khans-questioning-justified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A couple of days ago, the leading news story in all of India&#8217;s news channels was that of actor Shahrukh Khan being questioned by US Customs and Border Protection at Newark Airport. A brouhaha was raised (I can&#8217;t tell by whom). But from this screenshot from NDTV, one might conclude that the entire country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=256&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My thoughts on the ruling against Sec. 377</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/my-thoughts-on-the-ruling-against-sec-377/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am really happy today over the Delhi High Court ruling parts of Section 377 unconstitutional. The ruling is available in PDF format here. The entire judgement is awesome. The judges did not restrict themselves to narrow legal issues, but spoke overwhelmingly about broad constitutional issues such as privacy, dignity and equality.
In the run up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=255&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India not too late in decriminalizing homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/india-not-too-late-in-decriminalizing-homosexuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Delhi High Court stuck down discriminatory provisions of Section 377 which criminalized homosexual behavior. This is not too late, compared to what happened in the United States. It was only six years ago, on June 26, 2003, that United States Supreme Court struck down sodomy law in Texas. The case is Lawrence v. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&blog=5794233&post=254&subd=mssnlayam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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