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		<title>Top global jazz musicians to play in capital (With Images)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94656.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Jazz lovers in the capital have an exciting weekend in store. The 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 Saturday and Sunday will feature some of the biggest names in international jazz.
Saturday's headline act will be a performance by Beatlejazz featuring...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:33:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Of art, memories and new interpretations (With Images)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artistic memory is spreading itself beyond the brain, says noted Mumbai-based poet, art critic and curator Ranjit Hoskote, whose show "Retrieval Systems" in the capital, featuring five leading contemporary artists, deals with the "nature of memory...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:36:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Fan's collection of 10,000 Asterix figures keeps growing</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94390.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Asterix, the world's most famous Gaul just turned 50, bringing all of Europe into a fever about the comic book hero.
Well, all of Europe aside from Volker Pallapies of Minden, in northern Germany. He was way ahead of everyone else, he says, having...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:11:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Bin Laden's son wants to join the UN to promote peace</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94298.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The son Osama bin Laden favoured to carry on his work says he would like to work for the United Nations instead -- as a peace campaigner.
In a magazine interview published Thursday following launch of a book about him, Omar bin Laden - the fourth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Climate change photo exhibition shows peoples' resilience</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94288.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a photo exhibition on climate change, but instead of the negative impact of the phenomenon, it showcased how people in rural India are coping with changes in climate and evolving new ways to cope with it.
Organised by international NGO Oxfam...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Philip Roth in Bad Sex Award shortlist for depiction of threesome</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94277.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Acclaimed American novelist Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Bad Sex Award, alongside fellow-literary luminaries Amos Oz and Paul Theroux.
The Pulitzer Prize winner was shortlisted for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009 for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:51:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Dalai Lama to speak at Delhi University</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94197.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will give the valedictory address at a conference on Tibetan history and culture at Delhi University Saturday in which more than 40 scholars from across the world are participating.
Dalai Lama will return to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:32:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Santhali literature is booming, but needs government help</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94138.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary Santhali literature has taken off in a big way since it became an official language of Jharkhand in 2003, but it has not come of age because the government has not added it to the list of official Indian languages, says a pioneer of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:29:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>With art and grit, she helps women in Maoist badlands (Feature with images)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94133.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Deep in the heart of Maoist country in Jharkhand, a young woman is reviving ancient artistic genres to "bring new meaning into the lives of tribal and backward caste women" whose husbands and kin have taken to arms.
Reshma Dutta, the daughter of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Dalrymple, Brown continue to dominate bestseller charts</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a94117.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA["Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India" by William Dalrymple continued to retain the number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list for the fourth consecutive week while Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" topped the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Thousands throng to Palin as she begins book tour</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Sarah Palin fans thronged to the opening of her book tour as the former Republican vice presidential candidate embarked on a campaign that appeared to be as much about relaunching her political career as selling copies of her...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:34:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Transgenders and Shankaracharya come together on canvas (With Images)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93860.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[South Asian theatre, traditional Kathakali dance, a festival of transgenders and Adi Shankaracharya's text "Saundariya Lehri" (Waves of Beauty) fuse in Chennai-based artist George Kuruvilla's works, now on display in the capital.
The exhibition of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Ancient Chinese characters come together at new museum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The full range and history of Chinese characters, one of the world's most archaic writing systems which is still in practice, came together Monday when China's first museum for sinograms opened, Xinhua news agency reported.
The museum is located in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:23:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Palin hints at presidential ambitions as memoir goes on sale</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's widely touted memoir, "Going Rogue", went on sale Tuesday as the former Republican vice-presidential candidate gave her clearest hint yet that she may take part in the 2012 presidential race.
"My ambition is to help our country in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:56:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>After Tagore-Yates union, Indian and Irish poets to meet in India</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93762.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a century after the Irish poet W.B. Yeats helped launch Rabindranath Tagore to global fame, some of Ireland's most distinguished poets have teamed up with their Indian counterparts to celebrate a week-long festival of languages and culture in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:20:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Joint show of Dhaka, Kolkata artworks in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93647.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Works of prominent artists from Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state are on display here in a rare show of artistic bonhomie.
Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts and Art Trust, Kolkata has organised a group art exhibition, featuring the works of a team...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:35:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Goethe Institut to organise year-long cultural fest in India</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93526.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[To promote and strengthen bilateral ties, Germany's cultural arm Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan plans to organise a year-long festival at 15 locations across India in 2011.
"The idea is to bring together a comprehensive and authentic picture of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:26:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Anonymous ex-call girl blogger revealed to be British scientist</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93290.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The anonymous author of three bestselling autobiographical books on a student turning to prostitution - themselves the product of a notorious blog - has been revealed to be a British research scientist.
Dr Brooke Magnanti, a hospital researcher from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:26:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>New Google Books settlement restricts scale of project</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93161.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has reached a new, more limited agreement with the US publishers over the Internet search giant's project to make millions of digitalised books available online.
The new Google Books settlement, following months of negotiations, restricts the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:23:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Youth theatre festival begins Sunday in Delhi</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93074.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Theatre lovers in Delhi are in for a treat as the five-day new age theatre festival begins Sunday.
The Youth Theatre Festival is presented by the Atelier's Theatre Society and Rock Castle Nov 15-21 across several venues here. It will be supported by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:19:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Cultural shows, trips, campaigns mark Children's Day celebrations</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a93013.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultural programmes were held in several schools, NGOs took street children on a trip to the zoo and distributed warm clothes to brave the winter chill - Children's Day was celebrated in a variety of ways in the capital Saturday to commemorate the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:38:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Pakistan releases book on 'humour' in Sindhi</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a92959.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistani author Imtiaz Abro's book 'In a lighter vein' - the first book on humour in Sindhi language after a gap of 15 years - has been released by the Matiari provincial government.
The societal characters such as grooms, brides, poets, writers,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:25:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Warrant against Anoushka Shankar's blackmailer</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a92875.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A Delhi court Friday issued a warrant against the man who allegedly blackmailed sitar player Anoushka Shankar, saying he should be produced before it Nov 27.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja issued the warrant for Mumbai businessman...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:25:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Penguin India leaps into digital future - with 3D promos</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a92850.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The next time you are at the Delhi airport, look around for a 3D high-definition plasma screen. Coming out of it will be super sleuth Feluda and his trusted companion Topshe in hot pursuit of a criminal - in images taken from Penguin's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:24:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Cuba art auction falls short of expectations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An auction of 69 lots of Cuban plastic and decorative art raised some 400,000 euros (about $600,000), less than half the expected total, organisers said here.
Wednesday's auction of works by acclaimed painters such as Mariano Rodriguez, Rene...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:28:01 +0530</pubDate>
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