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		<title>Destiny or Choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 03:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Sheena Iyengar went to Spain, people sometimes came up and asked her for a lottery ticket. “Because that is what blind people do in Spain,” she explains. “They sell lottery tickets. And when I was in Japan, random people would come up to me and take my hands and start putting them on their backs or on their necks because they expect blind people to perform magical massages.”

 These people would have been stunned to learn that though Iyengar is blind, she is a noted researcher, a professor at Columbia and the author of a critically acclaimed book ‘The Art of Choosing’, in which she dissects and analyzes choice - the ability one has to take on destiny - or even competing brands of cola.

 In life, how much can you choose and how much is pre-destined? Can you fight circumstances or is your role pre-ordained?And if you have the power of choice, how do you choose wisely? ]]></description>
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		<title>Chitra Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gossamer web of stories ensnares the reader in ‘One Amazing Thing,’ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel, taking you into distant lands, hidden places in the heart and into the hidden strengths people have.

Nine very different people drawn by chance or luck or destiny into the same spot just as disaster strikes. They are all gathered for obtaining visas to India in the basement of the Indian consulate in an unnamed American city when a powerful earthquake strikes. ALSO LISTEN TO A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH CHITRA DIVAKARUNI]]></description>
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		<title>Gita Mehta and Eternal Ganesha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the writer Gita Mehta was growing up in Orissa, a small ancient image of Ganesha was unearthed in a mound of dirt as the foundations of their family home were being laid. “I’ve always kept the Ganesha which came out of my parents’ home,” confided Mehta when I interviewed her once in New York. “That is the one image that goes with me wherever I go. He came out of the Indian soil so to me he’s like an umbilical cord that connects me to India. So it doesn’t matter where I live – he is my India.”]]></description>
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		<title>Suketu Mehta’s Tale of Two Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bombay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, all the high drama, the tall tales of tall cities like Bombay and New York started on a narrow balcony on a narrow street in Bada Bazaar in an old and densely packed part of Calcutta.]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Verghese&#8217;s Cutting for Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent days Dr. Abraham Verghese has been boarding jets at breakneck speed, shuttling between countless cities and towns in North America, not for medical conferences or research but for that quintessential ritual of an author’s life – the book tour...
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		<title>Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Balladeer of Immigrant Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arranged Marriage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queen of Dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sister of My Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Unknown Error of Our lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vine of Desire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She has put into words what millions of immigrants would find hard to articulate, especially the dilemmas faced by women who move from the confines and traditions of home into the brave new universe outside.]]></description>
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		<title>Kiran Desai: Her Mother&#8217;s Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Inheritance of Loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to my old tape, I found there were intriguing glimpses of what moves both mother and daughter and the perspectives on the world they share, the values that help them create these very real, very imaginary worlds.]]></description>
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		<title>Salman Rushdie: The King of Gup City</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haroun and the Sea of Stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Enchantress of Florence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Midnight’s Children’ freed other young emerging Indian writers to be bold and unleash the Story Waters and be accepted on their own terms by the west. ]]></description>
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		<title>Jhumpa Lahiri: Living on Unaccustomed Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With deft, intricate brush-strokes Jhumpa Lahiri creates characters that are so real you could swear you recognize them, you know them, or at least people like them.]]></description>
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		<title>Atul Gawande: The RX for Excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavina Melwani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To look at his resume is to wonder if it’s the resume of just one man – or several!]]></description>
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