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		<title>Two Singhs and a Choi</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/06/17/two-singhs-and-a-choi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeev Milkha Singh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[KJ Choi]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Vijay Singh]]></category>

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		<title>South Asians and Microlending</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/06/15/south-asians-and-microlending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[asheesh advani]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[circle lending]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kiva]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Microlending]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Yunus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nimay mehta]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[premal shah]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tanuj parikh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virgin money usa]]></category>

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Since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microlending has become a buzzword.  And at levels large and small, South Asians have been a driving force in the spread of its popularity.
Yunnus, of course, heads the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Premal Shah is the president of Kiva, a very popular website that connects lenders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Service in Indian Restaurants so Poor?</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/06/11/why-is-service-in-indian-restaurants-so-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Random Observations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[indian restaurants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[model minority]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>

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My wife and I love to go out and eat. We have eaten in restaurants with every cuisine possible: Thai, Mexican, Japanese, American, French, Spanish, Chinese &#8212; you get the point. We have eaten in dives to Michelin 3-stars to everything in between. We love food, and find that most places we choose to go are generally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason to Avoid Shimla.</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/06/03/another-reason-to-avoid-shimla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Top Lists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[katrina kaif]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mcafee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[namita kapoor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[shahid kapur]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[shimla]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At one point in its history, Shimla was a shining Indian tourist destination. Known by the British as &#8220;Queen of Hills&#8221;, the once majestic city has fallen into decay and is now considered by many to simply be a &#8220;concrete jungle&#8221;. Well, there is another reason to avoid Shimla now.
McAfee came out with a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Things to Consider When Naming An Indian Baby</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/06/01/top-5-things-to-consider-when-naming-an-indian-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://theindofiles.com/2009/06/01/top-5-things-to-consider-when-naming-an-indian-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[baby names]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since both of us here at The Indofiles are proud fathers of young children, we thought it would be a good time to impart some valuable knowledge for all expectant desi fathers (and mothers) out there: how to go about the process of naming your unborn child. There are so many issues to take into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G&#8217;day Mate! Unless you&#8217;re brown?</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/29/australian-and-indian-racism-and-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/29/australian-and-indian-racism-and-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[kevin rudd]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[shavran kumar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent white-on-brown violence in Australia has brought on a flood of reaction from the desisphere. Shavran Kumar, the latest victim of an alleged hate crime, lies in critical condition, having being beaten by a group of white Australian kids who simultaneously suggested that he &#8220;go back to India&#8221;. The issue has escalated all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congrats Kavya!</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/29/congrats-kavya-indian-spelling-bee-champion/</link>
		<comments>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/29/congrats-kavya-indian-spelling-bee-champion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 05:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Ok, so maybe Sidharth Chand wasn&#8217;t all he was cracked up to be. When the 2008 runner-up bowed out early in the competition, the road was cleared for a confident Kavya Shivashankar to battle through 16 competitive rounds to the Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship - overcoming the personality-less Tim Ruiter to claim the crown. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bee-lieve It: 7 Desis Advance to Spelling Finals.</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/28/bee-lieve-it-7-desis-advance-to-spelling-finals/</link>
		<comments>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/28/bee-lieve-it-7-desis-advance-to-spelling-finals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then there were 7.
If U.S. boxing has Ali-Frazier, then spelling has Shivashankar-Chand. The two desi wunderkinds advanced easily into the finals accompanied by nine others where they will duel it out this evening in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Seven of the 11 finalists are of desi origin, once again proving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Y-o-u-n-g  I-n-d-i-a-n  A-t-h-l-e-t-e-s</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/28/indians-and-the-national-spelling-bee/</link>
		<comments>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/28/indians-and-the-national-spelling-bee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[akshay buddiga]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian athletes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spelling bees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While it has become marginally customary to hear an Indian name on “American Idol” in the past couple of years, no other event has done more to get Indian names onto the tongues of everyday TV watchers than the Scripps National Spelling Bee.  And no event has done more to underscore the stereotype that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Desi Cities in the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/26/top-5-desi-cities-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://theindofiles.com/2009/05/26/top-5-desi-cities-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 08:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[indian film festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What are some of the great U.S. cities to live in if you are a 20-something or 30-something professional desi? Our esteemed panel (of one), decided to take a shot at it. There is really no criteria other that our personal experience and what we have heard from others. We based our criteria on best [...]]]></description>
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