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		<title>The Venus Flytrap: New To The Neighbourhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations on your successful relocation. I know you’re feeling a little lonely out here, but the easiest way to settle in is to throw a party. I understand your new neighbourhood is a diverse one, so I’m here to help you ensure that everybody is comfortable and catered for. Start by picking the right time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=775&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview in Sify&#8217;s Stree</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview I gave to Sify much earlier this year has finally been published in Stree, their women&#8217;s section. I quite enjoyed these questions, and find that my answers would be much the same even today. And I thought it was funny how the title has one word, the url another, but at least the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=772&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Storm In a T-Cup &amp; The Language Of Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have posted this up sooner, but here it is. My first post for Ultraviolet in quite awhile,  on thoughts about language and expression after the controversy about Penelope Trunk tweeting about her miscarriage. Read it here.
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		<title>&#8220;Kitschy Cool&#8221;, Said TOI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Versions of this article ran back in March in three of Times of India&#8217;s Chennai supplements. They weren&#8217;t available online, and I&#8217;m not very good when it comes to collecting or archiving press clippings, but I was given a copy at some point, and I&#8217;ve only just managed to scan it up. Here&#8217;s the version [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=757&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Venus Flytrap: The Maladjusted Medium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“These leaves are used in headache ointments,” she said, and handed me a few. They had a interesting, pleasantly medicinal smell. I asked her what the tree was called, but its name is the last thing I remember from that evening.
We were in the playground, waiting for the baby to tire herself out. The woman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=755&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Venus Flytrap: Deactivation Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel inordinately smug when I tell people that I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. The expressions of shock that greet this statement are a testament to the social networking website’s sheer hold over contemporary living. Foraying into Internet hermitude is not just impressive, it’s downright inspiring, it seems: every time I’ve mentioned it I’ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=753&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Venus Flytrap: The Hum of Many Roads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knows what possesses us in those hours between departure and destination. We give ourselves over to it, the road trip, with a reverence we offer few other things, and perhaps because the road trip is so supremely demanding, supremely absorbing, supremely seductive, we cannot help but acquiesce.
Not all journeys are like this. They all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=751&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading This Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asma and Manasi have been holding poetry meets at a private residence in Chennai for a few months now, and I&#8217;m happy to tell you that I&#8217;ll be coming out of my cave  for the first time in six months for a reading this Saturday, October 3rd. I&#8217;ll be reading from new work, as well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&blog=2334623&post=748&subd=sharanyamanivannan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Venus Flytrap: Touché ‘Tache</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Salvador Dali appeared on the 1950’s American TV game show “What’s My Line”, in which a blindfolded panel deduced the professions of mystery guests based on a series of yes/no questions, he was correctly identified by a suggestion one panelist made to another: “ask if he could use his moustache to paint?”
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		<title>The City As Canvas</title>
		<link>http://sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/the-city-as-canvas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a long essay on the aesthetics of the city of Chennai in the current issue of Caravan magazine. Caravan is a journal of politics and culture and is available nationwide at good bookshops, and can also be read digitally here.
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