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		<title>TOI iDiva: &#8220;Are women now becoming unafraid of controversy?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/toi-idiva-are-women-now-becoming-unafraid-of-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question posited to me was “are women now becoming unafraid of controversy?” My short response is straightforward: “when have we ever been?” Afraid, that is. To look to the likes of the poses and performances of Veena Malik and Vidya Balan as signifiers of a bolder, less diffident womanhood is woefully ignorant of historical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1269&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem In Barely South Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem, &#8220;Hanuman&#8220;, in Barely South Review.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1266&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story In Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think every story that finds its way into the world has at least four arrivals. Its arrival in the author&#8217;s mind/heart/vision. Its arrival on the page or screen, in completed form. Its arrival &#8212; and this can take a long time, as it did for this story &#8212; in a publication. And then its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1263&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Goddess And The Nation: Mapping Mother India by Sumathi Ramaswamy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abanindranath Tagore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of nationhood (or, say, the idea of empire) is predated by a long, animistic history of the idea of the earth itself as a fertile, maternal source. The emblematic figures (Britannia, Mother Russia, Marianne among them), almost always associated with revolutionary or consolidating eras, that have been taken to represent these motherlands are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1261&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joshua Muyiwa: Sex, And Yes, The City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This was written during the Poetry With Prakriti Festival, December 2010, and was meant to be published in The New Indian Express&#8217; &#8220;Sexualities&#8221; column, which was discontinued shortly afterward. This year&#8217;s Festival reminded me of the article. Some of the information may be out of date, but I hope that as a profile of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1103&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Cat&#8217;s Table by Michael Ondaatje</title>
		<link>http://sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/book-review-the-cats-table-by-michael-ondaatje/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until somewhere near its midway mark, Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table – the story, primarily, of a boy’s voyage on a ship from Colombo to England in the 1950’s – proceeds with a certain deceptive simplicity. The boy, named like the author as Michael but known to most of his fellow passengers under the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1252&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Many Lallas: An Interview With Ranjit Hoskote</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ranjit Hoskote’s I, Lalla recasts the poems (vakhs) of the 14th century mystic Lalleshwari as the collaboration of many authors over six centuries. Excerpts from a conversation during the Poetry With Prakriti Festival. You’ve entitled your book of translations as “I, Lalla”, and believe that although there was a historical figure (a poet and mystic) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1250&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Poems in Melusine, or Woman In The 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three poems &#8212; &#8220;Tesserae&#8221;, &#8220;Prelude&#8221; and &#8220;Nocturne&#8221; &#8212; in the new issue of Melusine, or Woman In The 21st Century. Read them here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1248&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Poems In Cura And A Pushcart Nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three poems &#8212; &#8220;Interior&#8221;, &#8220;Winter in the City Without Exits&#8221; and &#8220;Echo&#8221; &#8211; appear in CURA. Also, I&#8217;m happy to share that Rougarou has nominated my poem &#8220;I Will Come Bearing Mangoes&#8221;, which they published in their Fall issue, for a Pushcart Prize. Read it (again?) here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1245&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Excerpt From Constellation of Scars in Pratilipi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve waited a year to be able to share this with you. In Pratilipi, the first new excerpt from Constellation of Scars, my novel in progress, to be published since 2007.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2334623&amp;post=1240&amp;subd=sharanyamanivannan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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