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		<title>How long does it take to become &#8220;a jaded New Yorker&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, as I was scurrying toward the train station after work, replaying the day gone by in my head and stressing about the next, a young man in nondescript clothing blocked my path, and asked, &#8220;Excuse me miss, are you a New Yorker?&#8221; My mind blanked. I stared at him, confused and perplexed. That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=221&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On grinding as a dance form</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you know me even a wee bit, you know I like dancing. I love dancing, in fact. Whether or not I&#8217;m any good at it is another story altogether, and one that we shall not get into for (my) fear of the verdict. But as a friend recently noted, my &#8220;limbs start twitching every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=199&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you heard the one about Obama being a Muslim?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I posted here, I talked about what I thought was the most bizarre piece of news you would read all year. This time, I have come to outdo myself, even though barely seven months&#8211;full of work, a little laziness and the sun&#8211;have passed since my last post. I don&#8217;t know if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=201&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WTF news of the freaking year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Sikh. Well, technically. Which means that I come from a family that, when it can shake off the 19,342 other things it takes care of, heads to a gurudwara out of habit and familiarity, rather than to a mandir, masjid or any of the other thousand religious establishments that may have sprung up in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=190&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In which she writes in third person</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefob.wordpress.com/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fob is sorry. She has been a lazy and careless blogger. Heck, she hasn&#8217;t been much of a blogger for the past two months (two months?!?! OUCH.) But she has a valid excuse reason, she promises. She now has a job. She is no longer a poor grad student, living off assistantships and working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=184&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While I stare at a silent phone&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has probably never been a better time to rant against the American telecommunications industry. Or the sorry excuse for a telecommunications industry they have here. I just ran out of minutes today. I ran out of onefreakingthousand minutes. For the entire month. Yes, that&#8217;s how much T-Mobile rations out to me for thirty days. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=172&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So you think you can Bhangra?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m from Delhi. My family is from Punjab. I think I know a fair amount about Bhangra &#8212; runs in my blood, supposedly. Also, I am currently living in a country where people are crazy about Bhangra and Punjabi music. I have a reasonable number of enthusiastic friends in Bhangra troupes all over the country. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=168&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mama, I&#8217;m coming home. No, really, I am!</title>
		<link>http://thefob.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/mama-im-coming-home-no-really-i-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In those months before I left home for America, I had to bear The Annoying Conversation many, many times. For the uninitiated, it is a conversation that would take place at a nauseating frequency during that time period, one that I would be a passive party to for the most part. I have since developed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=157&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aaaaaand we&#8217;re back.</title>
		<link>http://thefob.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/aaaaaand-were-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thefob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people suspected that come December, this blog would fizzle out, considering the fact that it started as a class project. Well, I am pleased to announce that the class ended today. And that the blog is back, as alive as ever. Not that it was dead in the interim. Just sleeping. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=143&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind your language</title>
		<link>http://thefob.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/mind-your-language-among-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a footpath; it&#8217;s a sidewalk. It&#8217;s not colour; it&#8217;s color. It&#8217;s not publicise; it&#8217;s publicize. It&#8217;s not encyclopaedia; it&#8217;s encyclopedia. It&#8217;s not fora; it&#8217;s forums. It&#8217;s not a lift; it&#8217;s an elevator. It&#8217;s not a loo; it&#8217;s a restroom. It&#8217;s not a cupboard; it&#8217;s a closet. It&#8217;s not capsicum; it&#8217;s green pepper. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10428112&amp;post=114&amp;subd=thefob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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