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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; XV</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-xv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jukto koro he shobar shonge Our present house in Kanpur situated in Azad Nagar (named after Chandra Shekhar Azad, a freedom-fighter), is a long way from MacRobert Gunj. It is in the neighborhood of the old area, called Nawab Gunj. Returning there has always had the taste of homecoming. Leaving the railway station you usually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=118&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mesdi Reminisces</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/mesdi-reminisces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Recollections of Dadu I saw Dadu from a distance and rarely had any meaningful conversation with him. Still I knew him as the big banyan tree, under whose shadow we were safe and secure. Dadu was short, not muscular but had a solid body. He was a believer in Gandhijee’s ideology of Swadeshi. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=117&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; XIV</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-xiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Father&#8217;s Presence  Among the earliest images in my memory, there’s one showing a ride in a tanga. It’s late in the evening – the tanga is driving down the road towards Brijendra Swarup Park. But wait! I am not yet old enough to have the least idea about that park or, of any destination at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=116&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asit Reminisces</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/asit-reminisces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Dadu-stories these, Baba&#8217;s and mine. I will tell the way stories are told. Didi, thank you for the thinly veiled and thought provoking reference. A part of it I told you earlier and the rest I seem to have saved up for today. The cheel noni episode that Mesdi has described is probably in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=115&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; XIII</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dadu Those of you who remember our Dadu know that he was a communicative person. He needed to understand what was going out of order in the machine, where it hurt, and why – all such things had to come out and be stated. When he had a worry about something on his mind, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=113&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Kalyan&#8217;s (Dada) Diary</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/notes-from-khokon-da%e2%80%99s-diary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Didima After the grand start made by sister Umu (Urmila), Didi (Saraju) has been tracing our roots &#8211; of people, places, and events that shaped our family. One of the portraits is of Didima (Suniti). May I add a few lines to that… I remember, to us children she was  like a matriarch who could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=111&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; XII</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-xii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buro Dadu and Dadu P.S. to previous article: At the end of their rolling bath the Kali Megha - boys were offered water to drink and a piece of ‘gur’ as sweet in recognition of their performance. About Buro Dadu I know very little; his dates of birth and death are also unknown to me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=109&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; XI</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-xi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kali Megha And Dadu On a hot summer day, I saw two men, barefoot, with just a mini dhoti around the waist coming into our front yard. They were not sadhus, nor did they look like ordinary mendicants. One of them, dark and stout seemed to be the ‘captain’, let us say. He came forward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=107&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; X</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little Girl Behind The Door It has taken me years to understand to some degree the outstanding personality that was our maternal grandmother, my Didima, and the strength of mind in that fragile body of hers. If I have written ‘my’ Didima, it’s not a random slip of typing. It’s as though, she belonged to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=104&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; IX</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-ix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mesdi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christ Church College]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cawnpore Before Independence Kanpur was spelled &#8216;Cawnpore&#8217;. Its population had a well balanced variety of people from different regions of the country, as well as a number of Englishmen occupying posts in the administration, among managerial staff, as foremen or supervisors in the factories, many of whom had families. There were few missionaries of European [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=103&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; VIII</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mesdi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allen Forest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baba&#8217;s Fishing Trips In the mid 1930s Kanpur was a flourishing township. Situated on the bank of Ganga, the place offered a rich potential for industry with its resources in cotton and sugar-cane, leather, and wool. The development of the town included besides factories, where a large number of workers found employment, also many schools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=101&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; VII</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-%e2%80%93-vii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; VI</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/notes-from-saraju%e2%80%99s-diary-vi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Struggle For Independence We’ll leave to scholars of history the task of writing the long and complex story of the struggle for independence of India with its ups and downs – complex, because of its interconnections with the industrial and political developments in Europe, where two devastating wars were fought. The world saw the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=92&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; V</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Swaraj is my birthright!” All over India groups and movements for the independence were taking shape. The Indian National Congress was already an organized body elaborating its strategy to achieve independence by parliamentary or democratic means. On the other hand there were many patriots in different provinces who were organizing an armed resistance against the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=88&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When I became five years old my mother got my ‘hate khodi’ done (a ritual where the priest helps the child to write the first letter of the alphabet on a slate with a chalk) and sent me to Bijoy Pondit Mahashya’s Pathshala. He was a man of good built, fair complexion and wore a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=86&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baba Comes To Calcutta Time passed and Baidyanath went to the village school where his intelligence didn&#8217;t go unnoticed. The headmaster encouraged him to pursue his studies in Calcutta after finishing school. Thus the idea of higher studies made its way in his mind. But at home the atmosphere was different, there were responsibilities to be shouldered. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=85&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju’s Diary &#8211; II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dvariknath We have to go back to follow Dvariknath who went to stay at his brothers-in-law&#8217;s house as ghar-jamai (a live-in son-in law), and with Thakuma had three other children (already introduced in this Post). But living together with his in-laws wasn&#8217;t a situation in which he could feel comfortable &#8211; he aspired to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=84&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Saraju&#8217;s Diary &#8211; I</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Saraju’s pensieve - Tracing The Family Tree It is well known that man descends from Hanuman and Hanuman descends from the tree. And so it happened that in the nineties of the last century, while I was living in Santiniketan in West Bengal, working in the Visva Bharati university, the urge to know the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=81&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves Sundays. I loved them too but for a very special reason. That day we got to drink tea from Baba&#8217;s tea shop. Morning cuppa had not become a habit in our house. I guess the reason was that gas cylinders had not entered kitchens in Kanpur. Lighting the coal ovens was a cumbersome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=80&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McRobert Gunj settlement was a pathetic sight when I visited Kanpur recently. I heard that our neighbourhood situated on the main road had been sold out to the builders.   I remember the days when Lal Imli Woollen Mills was still managed by the British. Our bungalows used to be so well maintained. A mali used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=79&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pujo is not quite the same without Bulbul. It was she and her infectious enthusiasm that pulled us into pandal hopping. We gave onjuli together, stood in the long snaking queue to get bhog, enjoyed performances in the evening and came together as a big family on Bijoya Doshumi.  Pujo is one of the times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=78&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Bijoya Doshumi. Yesterday was Nobumi. Nobumi was the day when Ma started preparations for Bijoya Doshumi. Ma always made narkol sandesh and jhuri gouja for Bijoya. While I collect inspiration from Azadnagar for my next post, I leave you with Ma&#8217;s recipes. Shobaikae shubho bijoyar aantorik preeti, subhechya o okek onek bhalobasha. Narkol [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=74&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (11th) is Mahalaya. It makes me very nostalgic about that special day when the house woke up to the rendition of Mahishsur Mardini, that soul stirring, immortal creation in the voice of Shri Birendra Krisno Bhodro. Ma or Baba, helped by the alarm set up the previous night, would wake up at that early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=65&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/autumn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Durga Puja]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clear blue sky, golden sunshine, a nip in the morning air and the sweet fragrance of shiuli phool tell us that shorot kal or autumn is here. The trees after being bathed in the monsoon showers look majestic with their lush green foliage, swaying their branches to the gentle breeze. The air is pregnant with expectation and preparations for the coming festive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=60&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roots</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to devote a full post to answer questions about the origin of Kulins and our roots. It also gave me time to do some reading on it. My main source of information is Shri Krishna Kripalini&#8217;s Biography of Dwarka Nath Tagore. Shri Kriplani was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1974 to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=59&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes When I Try Hard to Look Back</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/sometimes-when-i-try-hard-to-look-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mesdi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jasmine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanpur]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I try to remember the very early years of my childhood nothing comes to my mind except for some faded memories of events and incidents. Or maybe these incidents affected me so strongly that I retain their memories even today. Like Shyam Singh the Sikh carpenter who spent many days in our front yard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=57&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Baba Wed Ma</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/when-baba-wed-ma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calcutta University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Marriages are often divine interventions   and when the Gods conspire, it always   happens for the good.   Our Thakuma had promised a childhood   shoee (saheli or friend) that she would   accept her daughter as her daughter-in-law. But Gods had willed otherwise or why else would they have arranged a meeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=50&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thakuma</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/thakuma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mesdi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[24 Parganas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baduria village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bengal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bengali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calcutta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ganga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kumbha Mela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parmat Ghat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social reformers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I had known that I would be writing about Thakuma one day, I would have gleaned a mine of information from her. She loved to talk and reminisce about the days gone by. She was also a storehouse of anecdotes and folklores. She often talked about the Jatra parties which visited her village, Khemta [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=49&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bechari Urmila Rani</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/bechari-urmila-rani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[chapatti]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fasting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another embarrassing experience of my MacRobert Gunj school days was when I was in class IV, which was considered to be a senior class and by which time I think I had gained some amount of self assurance.  My day started with the loud wake up call given by our school maharagin. She used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=44&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machhi Khani</title>
		<link>http://mesdi.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/machhi-khani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mesdi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bengali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bong]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lal Imli Woollen Mills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacRobert Gunj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neighborhood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Uttar Pradesh in a Bong family was a unique experience in itself. Unique – because I learnt from my surroundings that I was different from others. Ours was the only Bong family in our neighborhood of MacRobert Gunj, which could also be called a settlement for all levels of workers of Lal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=38&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing up in MacRobert Gunj</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mesdi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Makar Sankranti]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neem trees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We grew up in MacRobert Gunj. Our neighborhood was like a big joint family. There were girls of my age in each house &#8211; Lallo, Munni, Nirmala, Shashi, and for every sibling in our family there was a match in these families. gfgfg Munni’s mother used to invite all the girls when she performed Kumari Puja on Ashtami [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=32&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mesdi turned Blogger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today when I look back at my childhood and those years of growing up, I find them to be so ordinary, but so real - with their pains and exhilarations, agonies and ecstasies &#8211; seemingly fetterless. The boundaries stretched not just up to my immediate neighborhood but up to the last walls of MacRobert Gunj - the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mesdi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1531069&amp;post=12&amp;subd=mesdi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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