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		<title>Islam, Gender Relations, and Women’s Agency Workshop &#8211; India contributions needed</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/11/19/islam-gender-relations-and-womens-agency-workshop-india-contributions-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam, Gender Relations, and Women’s Agency A two-day international workshop exploring Islam, gender relations and women’s agency in terms of India–Indonesia connections and comparisons 17–18th December, 2015 (9am-5pm) Room 1.04, HC Coombs Extension (Building 9), Australian National University This workshop will investigate connections, comparisons and contrasts between Muslim cultures in India and Indonesia, with a particular [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of Indian census data</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/09/24/the-politics-of-indian-census-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kumar, Vikas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[census]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vikas Kumar Indian governments spend enormous resources to collect data — including 12 billion and 22 billion rupees on decennial censuses in 2001 and 2011, respectively. Yet they appear reluctant to release it. The latest decennial census data on religion, for example, which were released on 25 August 2015, were collected almost half a decade ago in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tigers and Goats  A quick report on the World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok 2015</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/08/03/tigers-and-goats-a-quick-report-on-the-world-sanskrit-conference-bangkok-2015/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 07:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southasiamasala]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McComas Taylor Western Marxist Orientalist scholars are chewing up Sanskrit as a tiger would devour a goat, digesting what is needed and excreting the remains. So said well-known Indian fire-brand Rajiv Malhotra at the opening of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference in Bangkok on 28 June 2015. Many of the 600 or so attendees were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Pakistan Studies: a relook</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/28/teaching-pakistan-studies-a-relook/</link>
		<comments>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/28/teaching-pakistan-studies-a-relook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southasiamasala]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maqsudul Hasan Nuri Pakistan Studies is taught as a compulsory subject in schools, colleges and universities in Pakistan. However, teaching of the subject leaves much to be desired. It needs to transcend its present narrow unimaginative and stodgy content and to go beyond the narration of mere facts and events within a repetitive ideological framework. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy still taking root in Bhutan</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/24/democracy-still-taking-root-in-bhutan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southasiamasala]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Turner Bhutan was a latecomer to democracy. The small Himalayan kingdom joined the ranks of democratic nations only in 2008 when the first national elections were held and its constitution approved. But since then, how is democracy developing in the country? Elections are the most visible symbols of democratic rule. There have been two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Realising India’s economic potential</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/19/realising-indias-economic-potential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2015 06:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nishankmotwani]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[land reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narendra Modi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Drysdale India is a very large labour-abundant economy with a rapidly growing workforce and its manufacturing sector might be expected to be the primary driver of its economic growth. In fact, the manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining, as recent OECD analysis points out. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Seminar: Tobacco and Heart Disease: Countering the Global Threat</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/10/public-seminar-tobacco-and-heart-disease-countering-the-global-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southasiamasala]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presenter: Professor K. Srinath Reddy, President, World Heart Federation and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) When: Wednesday 22 July 5.30pm to 6.30pm Where: Legislative Assembly Reception Room, London Circuit, Canberra City (Opposite the Canberra Museum and Gallery) Having trained in cardiology and epidemiology, Professor Reddy has been involved in several major international and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Pakistan need soft power? Challenges and prospects (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/03/does-pakistan-need-soft-power-challenges-and-prospects-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2015 06:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southasiamasala]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maqsudul Hasan Nuri Pakistan lies at confluences of east, west and Central Asia. Although it has good relations with the Arab world it is intrinsically South Asian. Ties with India have to normalize as it is dragging both countries down. Since the 1990s, India has made a shift from hard power to soft power. Pakistan [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Pakistan need soft power? Challenges and prospects (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/07/02/does-pakistan-need-soft-power-challenges-and-prospects-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southasiamasala]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maqsudul Hasan Nuri Non-traditional security has become more salient since the end of Cold War. Multiple issues, such as stagnating economies, adverse effects of climate change, energy crisis, repressive governments, cronyism and corruption, poor governance, cross-border interventions, refugees and internally displaced people, drug and criminal mafias &#8211; all necessitate revising the traditional security paradigm. Pakistan [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep foreign hands off Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2015/06/22/keep-foreign-hands-off-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nishankmotwani]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabriela Marin Thornton and Arwin Rahi For much of its history, Afghanistan has been a battlefield for conflicts over regional influence in what has been called the Great Game. Now a weak state with deep ethnic divisions, located in a challenging security environment, Afghanistan is a key front in the pushback against terrorism. Once again, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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