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		<title>July 14 2010 Suitable for Indian Conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d make a post about some of the practical things I&#8217;ve learned here from experience. I&#8217;ll tell you about the experience in some cases&#160; and hopefully some of it will save some anguish or at least inconvenience for your next trip to India or a similar country. I am not some kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=377&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 7, 2010 A Quick North Indian Meal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 09:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what we had last night to eat. It&#8217;s pretty easy and quick to make. I&#8217;ll give a veg. and a non-veg. method. This is enough for 3-4&#160; people depending on appetites.(maybe 5 if some are kids) It&#8217;s all pretty cheap to make and tasty.&#160; It also stores well if there&#8217;s left-overs. Sometimes you&#8217;ll see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=368&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 15, 2010 Thinking About Jackals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather blurry pictures of jackals from Bharatpur in Rajasthan in 2002. They were hunting in a pack in the tall grass at the bird sanctuary. For the past few nights I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of jackals howling. This is fairly common and I rather like the sound. It&#8217;s not like a wolf or a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=362&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jan 30 2010 Full Wolf Moon and Calendar Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 30, 1:18 a.m. EST &#8211; Full Wolf Moon. Amid the zero cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. It was also known as the Old Moon or the Moon after Yule. In some tribes this was the Full Snow Moon; most applied that name to the next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=351&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 5 2009 Meeting Mr. Tran</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[4AM Indira Gandhi International Airport Delhi India. Got through check in,  immigration and security in less than an hour.  Waited and walked for 2 hours. Bought a book. Checked email on the airport wireless network. A hassle to getting signed in.  Needed my cell phone to get a text message with a password. Security issue. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=345&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 24 2009 OK I Behaved Like a Jerk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was one of those days when everything just sort of tensed up and I freaked out a little bit. OK I admit I was something of a jerk. What led to this admission were numerous things.  We planned to have supper at home but Manoj didn&#8217;t do the purchasing for it so we had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=343&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 18 2009 The Carp Comes for a Surprise Visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for Divali we gave some sweets to the other folks who live in this 4-plex. This includes the landlord and his family, the downstairs neighbors who run the dhaba and Mr.BA and the Carp. I am now going to call Mr. BA the Grouse. So the Grouse and the Carp. I went into her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=340&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 17 2009 Divali</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divali is the festival of lights to honor the goddess Lakshmi. Here are some photos from the evening. We had a good meal. Lots of sweets. Glad I was feeling OK by evening. Had a fun bout with Norwalk virus-if you&#8217;ve never had it don&#8217;t get it! for about 24 hours previous to the evening. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=339&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 9 2009 Accident With an Unknown Mammal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Shrew &#8211; more info on these here I killed one of these the day before yesterday. I didn&#8217;t realize it until today when I smelled the decomposition smell coming from behind a big trunk. Last week a black one ran in under the front door and I chased it around for a while until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=330&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 5 2009 List of Necessary Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I come back to India from Canada there is a half a suitcase dedicated to anti-homesick stuff or just stuff I miss when I am here. It is not unlike those Indian travellers that put 4-5 jars of mango pickle and a lot of masala packets into their bags when they go abroad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2891860&amp;post=323&amp;subd=monsoondiary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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