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		<title>In Continuation&#8230; Happiness: A Work in Progress…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness: A Work in Progress… 2 In continuation… December 31st, 2011 To understand happiness we have to explore our relationship with unhappiness. Like everybody else DG’s relationship with unhappiness began very early in childhood. Out of the womb into the world of new faces what does a baby know? Poo, pee and scream for feed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1272&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness: A Work in Progress…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness: A Work in Progress&#8230; December 13th, 2011 Yes, DG has again done the Houdini act for no apparent reasons. She was gone for 3 months and three days. While she was gone GGTS turned two on October 16th and a week before that it hit the 100,000 hits mark. Few health debacles and travel trips [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1262&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once Again Words Lost Meaning&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/once-again-words-lost-meaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bashir Badar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chitra Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firaq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghalib]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jagjit Singh]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/?p=1253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every morning lazy DG rises, turns her computer on and goes to brush her teeth. Nothing great about it everyone does that but the only difference is her teeth take thirty minutes or more to brush. With brush in her mouth she reads her emails, check GGTS and news. She wants to hate gmail for it burned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1253&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Fathers: Super, Lesser and Some in Between</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, DG is still alive. Yes, it’s been a long time to be exact 3 months and 20 days since she last posted on GGTS. What did she do all these days? Not that busy readers are interested in her not so happening life. Her basement apartment flooded and she literally survived electrocution. One Saturday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1248&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Parenting: Cycle of Generational Dysfunction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/?p=1215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, lazy DG is still alive and counting her blessings. Previous post elicited a very interesting comment. Glacier and sexantheindiancities answered it appropriately I know it’s naive to ask this question, but if it is so obvious that many parent-child relationships in India are abusive and based on the control game, why are they often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1215&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Sons,Victims of Their Mothers II: Modus Operandi</title>
		<link>http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/desi-sonsvictims-of-their-mothers-ii-modus-operandi/</link>
		<comments>http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/desi-sonsvictims-of-their-mothers-ii-modus-operandi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is in continuation from previous post. Original comment is here. The bold, CAPs and italicized is addition from DG. Thank you DG. My post was not against parents, I loved them and still do but I cannot see them because of the actions they took and think they were right in doing them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1202&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DG is usually accused of gender bias towards women&#8217;s oppression, her detractors have failed to notice how vociferous she is about the nature and actors of violence in intimate/familial relationships. Many bloggers have lamented based on their personal experiences about desi men&#8217;s failure to draw a balance between their mothers and spouses. Some marriages have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1197&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Parenting: Daughter vs DIL</title>
		<link>http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/desi-parenting-daughter-vs-dil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 23:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DG often jokes about the definition of a desi daughter-in-law, an enemy brought home with marching band and fanfare. Other bloggers have blogged about failure of married men to draw a balance between their two prime relationships, female parent and wife. A statement made by a psychologist posted by IHM attracted DG&#8217;s attention, &#8220;&#8230;Your mother [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1179&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Sisters:  Nemesis of Brothers</title>
		<link>http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/desi-sisters-nemesis-of-brothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anuradha and Sonali Behl]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    The word “sister” conjures all kind of beautiful memories of growing up; running around and fighting for sweet nothings with siblings. Desi folk lore celebrate siblings in so many beautiful ways irrespective of region or religion. Hinduism has specific rituals celebrating brother-sister bond, in the form of rakshabandhan and bhai dooj with regional variations. In Bengal women celebrate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1163&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Life: Log, Martyrs and Selfishness</title>
		<link>http://girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/desi-life-log-martyrs-and-selfishness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anuradha and Sonali Behl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desi menatl health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Families of Alcoholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male rape fantasies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness in India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noida sisters starvation death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all are aware of faceless strangers called “log” we have debated and lamented their existence. We can point all fingers to this collective called log but at individual level we have no names and faces to point at. Have we done anything to identify and eliminate these nasty mites that control our lives? Guess [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsguidetosurvival.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9945917&amp;post=1152&amp;subd=girlsguidetosurvival&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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