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		<title>Canadian Medical Caravan Heads to Tanzania</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moshi, Tanzania “This spot here is ringworm,” Doctor Karen Yeates says, pointing at her face and inviting people in for a closer look.  Necks crane curiously to catch a glimpse.  It is mid-afternoon in Moshi, Tanzania, and a large tarp is doing little to protect the 20-odd Canadian members of a week-long medical caravan from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=180&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel and the Art of Compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(First appeared in The Toronto Star, February 21, 2009.  View the story:  http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/589491   The orange vulva my eight-year old has drawn has sprouted grey and orange wings, and he collapses on the kitchen floor in a fit of giggles. After two hours spent touring the Joan Miro museum in Barcelona, and four days tripping through some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=162&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vintage Cycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bicycles, baguettes and bottles of Sauvignon blanc – it doesn’t get any more French than this. It’s 11 am and I’m flying over tree roots and fallen pomegranates, feeling light-headed and carefree in the gentle Mediterranean sun. We’re participating, along with 500 other outdoor enthusiasts, in the region’s first vineyard and epicurean tour à la [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=160&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flush From Embarrassment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First appeared in The Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081018.TRIP18/TPStory/?query=rita+parikh) It didn’t come crashing to a shrieking halt.  Bags didn’t fly missile-like from overhead racks.  And people didn’t tumble helter skelter into the aisles.  Instead, all was calm as the train rolled gently to a standstill.  This is what happens when you pull the emergency stop?   We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=133&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepless in Béziers</title>
		<link>http://globalmasala.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/sleepless-in-beziers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      “You deserve to lose a night’s sleep for that one,” Peter says.    “I already have!”  I whine.  Still, I cringe.    My partner is right, of course – me wanting to pull our son from the local public school, and enroll him in a private one instead, all because the stiletto-teetering, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=120&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Merde!</title>
		<link>http://globalmasala.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/oh-merde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merde!  Just one block from home and I’m already toe-deep in it.  We’ve been in Béziers for only five days, but already my mind and senses are clearly overwhelmed.  Not with the fact of this French city’s 2,700 year-old history, not with the olive and almond trees and sidewalks strewn with fresh figs, not with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=114&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Béziers to Bollywood and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://globalmasala.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/beziers-to-bollywood-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lie on her bed, my arms wrapped around my 10-year-old, pulling her shaking body close to mine. “It’ll be an adventure,” I whisper, “an adventure for all of us.” But she turns her face away, tears spilling helplessly to her pillow. Anjali is afraid and anxious and worried and sad, as much as she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=97&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Community One Lemon at a Time</title>
		<link>http://globalmasala.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/building-community-one-lemon-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a gloriously warm summer afternoon and my daughter, Anjali, and two friends are tearing around the kitchen. Lemon juice and sugar are spilled in equal amounts – on the floor, on the counters, inside drawers, on their clothes. The felt markers and poster paper are scattered across the floor where one of the 10-year-olds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=67&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Ugly Day in New Brunswick</title>
		<link>http://globalmasala.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/an-ugly-day-in-new-brunswick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rita Parikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    First published in The Globe and Mail   “Maman, j’ai une moustache de chocolat,” says my chocolate-smeared seven-year-old with a laugh.  Though he’s been in French immersion for just two years, the words come easily, and his accent rings true.    Sage is the beneficiary of a stunningly-successful experiment here in BC – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalmasala.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4234958&amp;post=40&amp;subd=globalmasala&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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