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		<title>Diwali 09 Photos</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/10/19/diwali-09-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lansing temple recently organized a special Diwali program. My daughter Shreya participated in a dance and I, as always, took photographs of the event. Click here or the image below to see all 161 of the photographs I took. 

Enjoy. 
You can also read a poem written by Shreya on Diwali on her blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Diwali</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Happy Diwali 





For an interactive card click here &#8230; .
Remember to turn your volume way up, and click anywhere in the sky
above the Taj Mahal for some environmentally friendly, fireworks.

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		<title>Darwin film can&#8217;t find distributor</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/12/darwin-film-cant-find-distributor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph article titled: Charles Darwin film &#8216;too controversial for religious America&#8217;
How sad is that!
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		<title>The revolution will be twittered</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/06/15/the-revolution-will-be-twittered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent (and ongoing) evens in Iran sadden me deeply&#8230; but also give me hope. The scenes and news emerging from there speak of courage and a need and demand for freedom. What is also amazing has been the use of technology particularly twitter to get news out of the country.
A few decades ago it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Allegory of the Cave</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/17/the-allegory-of-the-cave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave (see Wikipedia entry) illustrates &#8220;our nature in its education and want of education.&#8221; It is maybe one of the most famous allegories in literature and philosophy, a precursor to the kinds of mind-games (think brain in a vat) that philosophers like Dennett engage in today [Where am I? is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The story of Hari &amp; freedom of speech</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/13/the-story-of-hari-freedom-of-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Johann Hari wrote an article defending free speech for everyone. You can read the article here: Why should I respect these oppressive religions?. This article was reprinted in the Indian newspaper, The Statesman. This led to riots, death threats, and the arrest of an editor who published the article!
They have been charged &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to my reading&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/12/responding-to-my-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had written a response to Mohsin Hamid&#8217;s The Reluctant Fundamentalist a while ago (read it here). Yesterday, I received a note from Irfan critiquing my take on the novel. 
This is what he wrote:
Punya, I read the novel and it does not seem to me, as you interpret, that the character decides to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Day &amp; A new Gallup Poll</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/12/darwin-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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Charles Darwin 
12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882

On this day, it is sobering to read the results of the latest Gallup Poll: On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution
On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin&#8217;s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of hernias and hiccups, the evolutionary story</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/01/14/of-hernias-and-hiccups-the-evolutionary-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in Scientific American about how flaws in our biology reveal our evolutionary history. Steven Gould talked about it in his famous essay on The Panda&#8217;s Thumb. 
This is a wonderful argument for Darwinian evolution since it points not to perfection (which the deniers of evolution can point to as well as example of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Days of Christmas, the desi version</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2008/12/18/12-days-of-christmas-desi-flavor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love mongrel culture the mashing and creative remixing elements from different cultures and traditions to construct something new and, hopefully, wonderful. A great example is something my daughter, Shreya, showed me the other day. It is the 12 Days of Christmas with a desi ishtyle! So in keeping with the holidays coming up&#8230; here [...]]]></description>
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