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		<title>International Interfaith Harmony award for Yusuf Ali</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a280323.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[NRI business magnate M.A. Yusuf Ali has been selected for the prestigious Interfaith Harmony Award specially endowed with United Nations' Interfaith Harmony Week initiatives and observations.
Ali is one of Kerala's most popular ambassador in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:33:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>India inspired design on sale at Sotheby's</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a280255.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian inspirations will power Sotheby's forthcoming auction 'Inspired by India', which will offer contemporary designs, photographs, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and furniture from May 8-15 in London, the auction house said Wednesday.
The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:09:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Dynasty rooted in Indian political tradition: Writer Zareer Masani</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a280153.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[He grew up in a family that aligned its destiny with the turbulent politics of post-independence India and fell apart for it. London-based biographer-historian Zareer Masani, who courted controversy with a biography of Indira Gandhi, feels dynasty...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:03:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Indian bookscape: New sensibilities emerging in literary translation</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279720.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In Kerala, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is among the most popular novelists - thanks to his translated works in Malayalam. Translations of popular fictions, non-fictions and classics are very much in demand in India and adorn bookshelves in many urban...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:45:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Translations, young India &amp; health on book shelf (IANS Books This Week)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279599.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the bookcart wheels a medley of thoughtful titles on a diverse range of subjects. Browse with IANS.
1. &quot;A Life Incomplete&quot;; Written by Nanak Singh/Translated by Navdeep Suri; Published by Harper Collins India; Priced at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:30:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Baichung gets inaugural Banga-Samman award</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279473.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Legendary Indian footballer Baichung Bhutia was among the 10 luminaries from diverse fields honoured with the inaugural Banga-Samman award by the West Bengal government Friday. The award is in recognition of their contribution to arts, culture,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:15:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>London poet to make his acting debut in Tagore's play</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[London-born poet and translator William Radice, who has transliterated several literary works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, is making his acting debut in 'Raja', a play by the Bard of Bengal.
&quot;This is the first time I would be acting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:39:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Captured: Polymath S. Balachander and his great wars</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279323.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Storming the world of Carnatic music and Tamil cinema with his non-conformist, controversy-creating ways in the 1940s, polymath and veena exponent Sundaram Balachander steadfastly fought many &quot;unholy cultural nexuses&quot;, earning his share of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Lokmat's record news spread of a world record </title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279275.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In what is claimed to be an unprecedented innovation by a broadsheet, an English daily recently produced a full-colour picture and story spread over 16 columns across the front and  back pages to commemorate a Guinness World Record event in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:51:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Ramkinkar Baij colours Delhi's spring canvas </title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279136.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The canvas of spring in the capital has been set ablaze by the colours of Ramkinkar Baij, the founding father of modern Indian sculpture, at a mega retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA).
Featuring 350 art works by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:57:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Lahore's Hira Mandi: a love affair</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279129.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hira Mandi, the traditional red light quarter of Lahore, lives in the popular mindscape through its stories of longing, loss and 'mujras' after the Pakistan government clamped down on prostitution in the 1970s, says noted French writer Claudine Le...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:39:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Goa's carnival festivities in limbo due to polls</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279090.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The March 3 Goa assembly polls have cast a pall of uncertainty over the famed carnival festivities.
A poll official in the state said repeated reminders sent by them to the Election Commission in New Delhi to sanction clearance for one of Goa's most...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:03:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Customs officer pens book on sound recordings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound is 50 percent partner in a film, Commissioner of Customs and Excise A.N. Sharma said during the release of his book &quot;Baajanama&quot; here Wednesday.
The book was launched on the sidelines of the Mumbai International Film Festival...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>American chalk artist to showcase work at Mumbai fest </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American chalk artist Tracy Lee Stum will present her 3D street art at the ongoing Kala Ghoda Arts Festival here, an official from the American Center said Tuesday.
Stum will present her works at the festival Wednesday and Friday.
&quot;Tracy is a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:00:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>E-textbooks knocking at Indian classroom doors</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278642.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones and tabs, e-textbooks are only the next step. But some infrastructure bottlenecks need to be taken care of before that education revolution takes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Painter Antoni Tapies dies</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278593.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Spanish artist Antoni Tapies, who wielded a strong influence on 20th century painting, died Monday, said sources in the Barcelona city government. He was 88.
The painter, born here in 1923, was named first Marquis of Tapies in 2010 for his...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:54:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Braj haveli sangeet on verge of extinction</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278584.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The famed musical tradition of 'haveli sangeet',originating in western Uttar Pradesh's Braj region, is on the verge of extinction in the place of its origin, with no patrons or followers, say musicians and aficionados.
Only a few temples in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Historian Sharada Dwivedi dead </title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278537.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Noted urban historian and author of several books on the history and culture of Mumbai, Sharada Dwivedi passed away here Monday, a family member said. She was 69.
&quot;She suffered from a brief illness, following which she was taken to hospital...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:00:07 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Dickens Inheritance (To go with Dickensian debate: Is Charles still as relevant after 200 years)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278420.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens was a prolific writer, who serialised his novels and interspersed it with short stories... A walk through his bibliography.
Novels
The Pickwick Papers (Serialised during 1836-1837)
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1837 to 1839)
The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:33:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>India celebrates - and debates - relevance of Charles Dickens</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278419.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[He gave us Uriah Heep in &quot;David Copperfield&quot;, the Artful Dodger in &quot;Oliver Twist&quot;, Ebenezer Scrooge in &quot;The Christmas Carol&quot;...characters who live on not just in books but also in the English language itself. As the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:33:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Cuban makes statues using tobacco leaves</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278386.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A Cuban sculptor uses tobacco leaves to create wonderful pieces of art, and has made life-size as well as miniature sculptures of Winston Churchill, Che Guevara, John F. Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Luciano Pavarotti and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With his...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>President Kenendy 'took virginity of intern'</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278330.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Then US president John F. Kenendy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a new book as saying.
Mimi Alford, now a 69-year-old...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:03:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>American comedian talks of life with puppet act</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278235.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Social realities, tragedies, life's profound truths, cynicism, laughter, theatre and puppets made of objects daily used come together in leading American physical comedienne Hilary Chaplain's award-winning signature act, &quot;A Life In Her...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:27:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Indian footprint growing in Art Dubai</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278230.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Art Dubai, one of the biggest art showcases in the Gulf, is seeking to position itself as a crucial international platform for Middle Eastern and South Asian art, with a strong Indian presence at its annual display-cum-trade exposition next...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:09:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Socialism can't resolve all ills: Fidel Castro (Lead)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a278216.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fidel Castro says he now realises it was a mistake to think that socialism can resolve all economic problems.
Castro made the candid admission during the release of a two-volume memoir here, official media said Saturday.
The leader of the Cuban...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:27:01 +0530</pubDate>
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