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        <itunes:subtitle>A podcast covering social justice, sustainable living, multiculturalism and universal humanism</itunes:subtitle>
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            <title>237 Debal Deb Part 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Debal Deb talks about his early education, and his work towards preservation of hundreds of varieties of indigenous rice that are fast vanishing from the land under the unsustainable onslaught of mono-culture and chemical dependent industrial agriculture.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Debal Deb on forest rights act, preservation of forests by the indigenous tribes in India and Menominee people in Wisconsin in north America, as well as agroecology, ecoforestry and ecological economics and preservation of bio and cultural diversity.]]></description>
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            <title>235 Talk with Ravi Kuchimanchi</title>
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            <title>234 Death of a waterfall</title>
            <description><![CDATA[An article by Madhusree Mukherjee alerts us of possible humanitarian and ecological disaster unfolding in a remote jungle in India, threatening flora and fauna of an unique eco-system and an indigenous jungle tribe under onslaught of surface mining.]]></description>
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            <title>233 Meera’s marriage, and Chithi of 26-9-53</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Reading Prashanta Pal’s Rabi Jeebani, 5th volume, on marriage of Meera Tagore with Nogen, Kanyadaygrostho Tagore and his views on religious rigidity. Anjana Sen recites Santiniketaner Chithi of 26-9-53. Songs by Sudeshna Bose, Paromita Das, Anjana Sen.]]></description>
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            <title>232 Santiniketaner Chithi 9 Sept 53</title>
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            <title>231 Shyamali Khastagir</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Covering talks of 7th August 2011 between Tonu in Canada, Tapas Basu in UK, Piyali Palit in Mauritius and Chitra Palchoudhury in Kolkata, India, about everything under the sun. Songs by Tamojit Ray, Sugata Sen, Suchitra Mitra and Kanika Bandopadhyay.]]></description>
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            <title>229 Rural Reconstruction efforts of Tagore</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tonu reads out his blog analyzing why Tagore’s rural reconstruction program failed, and how that the ex-students and teachers are collectively responsible. Songs by Mohan Singh, Sinjini Majumdar, Indranil Sen and Florda Ahmed.]]></description>
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            <title>228 Madanmohan and Piyali</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tonu talks about his blog KMG-6 on Kalimohan Ghosh, but specifically about Madanmohan Ghosh and Piyali Palit, both of whom had new information to pass about Kalimohan Ghosh. Songs from Basabi Dutta, Ankhi Bose, Vikram Singh and Rajeswari Dutta.]]></description>
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            <title>227 Tan Lee and Leena Chatterjee</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tan Lee and Leena Chatterjee remembers folks from their younger days in Santiniketan – Subhomoy Ghosh, Anil Chanda, Mukul De, also books by Sir Perceival Sykes. Songs by the young folks from Vancouver and surroundings, and Mohan Singh and Santideb Ghosh.]]></description>
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            <title>226 Free Doctor Binayak Sen</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Jonathan Fine, founder of PHR, USA, and co-founder of International Federation for health and human rights organisations, the Netherlands, speaks on Binayak Sen. Songs by Purnadas Baul, Pramita Mallick, Sasha Ghoshal, Arudhuti Hom Chowdhury.]]></description>
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            <title>225 Indo Aryan controversy revisited</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Covering a 150 year old question on the  origin of Harappans, Indo Aryans, and the origin of Vedic people – with new study of  genetics. Songs by Chandraboli Rudra Dutta, Sharmila Roy, Rajashree and Shromona Mukherjee, WB Sangeet academi, Shompa Kundu]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Reading two notes from Piyali, and about Mahasweta Devi's book “Aranyer Adhikar” covering India's tribal people's struggle against destruction of forests. Songs from Sugata Sen, Ramkumar Chatterjee, Pulak Dutta, Pramita Mallick, Chitralekha Chowdhury.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Reading from 3 books : Tagore's ambivalence by Hogan and Pandit, Economic Exploitation of India in the Victorian Era by Dutt, and Root of Environmentalism by Guha. Songs by Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Kanika Bannerjee, Indranil Sen, Sandip Tagore and chorus]]></description>
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            <title>221 Chaitanya and the Vaishnavism movement</title>
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