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		<title>sikhing to learn</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/sikhing-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this morning, a gurudwara in nairobi invited students of arya high school as part of their school curriculum to do a field trip and learn about the sikh faith. these students are studying the sikh faith as part of an examinable gcse exam. we were approached by the gurudwara to assist in making a presentation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=47&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one indian&#8217;s kenyan nationalism</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/one-indians-kenyan-nationalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sikhs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[awaaz]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[if you are looking for an alternative take on kenya’s indian community, speak to zahid rajan, editor of awaaz, a magazine focusing on historical, political, and cultural issues in the south asian community in east africa. the local indian community traces its roots to the late nineteenth century laborers imported by the british to build [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=42&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>kenya – a love letter</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/kenya-%e2%80%93-a-love-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sadness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by mukoma wa ngugi inside looking out, snow is falling and i am thinking  &#124;  how happy we once were, when promises and dreams  &#124;  came easy and how when we, lovers covered onlyby a warm eldoret night, you waved a prophecy  &#124;  at a shooting star and said, &#8220;when the time comes  &#124;  we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=40&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>kenyankalasingha &#8211; raising curiosity already</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/kenyankalasingha-raising-curiosity-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doogoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ex-kenyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kala singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kalasingha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nairobi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ndugu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[having posted on a few discussion boards about the kenyankalasingha website, we were pleasantly surprised to get responses from ex-kenyans who now reside in other countries. it is heartening to notice that despite their absence from kenya for many decades, they still hold a soft spot of their former country of birth / residence. even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=38&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>letter from switzerland</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/letter-from-switzerland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kalasingha]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[simba]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[jambo! jambo, sana! sat sri akal congratulations from me, a kala simba, a swahili-speaking sikh living in switzerland. i have just logged in onto your website and wish you all the very best and chardikala. kama una taka, unaweza kuandika jibu lako kwa kiswahili, kwa sababu (mimi) nasema kiswahili, kijerumani, kizungu, panjabi, hindi na urdu. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=32&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>sanjhi ardas &#8211; a rare event in kenya&#8217;s sikh history</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/sanjhi-ardas-a-rare-event-in-kenyas-sikh-history/</link>
		<comments>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/sanjhi-ardas-a-rare-event-in-kenyas-sikh-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gurbani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ardas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[the sanjhi ardas smagam pulled in the sangat in the numbers rarely witnessed in modern kenya. with over 26 different gurudwaras in the country, for the first time ever, everyone got together and offered a single petition to Waheguru – please, Lord, save our beloved kenya! the sight was one to behold – with over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=33&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>now that&#8217;s a tabla maestro!</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/now-thats-a-tabla-maestro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in this video, check out the flawless way with which this singh changes his tabla. this video was taken at the december samagam held in nairobi last year. the official photos an  reports of this smagam will be uploaded in a week on kenyankalasingha.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=30&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>makhan singh: the forgotten son of two continents</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/makhan-singh-the-forgotten-son-of-two-continents/</link>
		<comments>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/makhan-singh-the-forgotten-son-of-two-continents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Makhan Singh, an unsung Sikh hero of Kenyan and Indian freedom struggles, who has been forgotten by Kenya, India and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), has been portrayed in a play Mungu Comrade (Mungu is a Swahili word for God), by noted playwright Atamjit. Few Indians know Makhan (1913-1973) and other India-born persons who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=25&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;the best way to revenge&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-best-way-to-revenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the article below underscores what mehindi dahya of kisumu (kenya) whose 32 years investment was burnt to the ground says &#8220;i cannot sit down and cry. as long as GOD is with us, we will make it.&#8220; the issue before us is not easy as it looks. in guise, all of us are looking at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=19&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>kenya &#8211; the good &#8216;ol days</title>
		<link>http://kalasingha.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/kenya-the-good-ol-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lakhvir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the good old days seem like distant memories when you begin to get nostalgic in times when nothing now seems the same. how, truly, gurbani tells us that we are living in a dream (guru tegh bahadur ji in his slok mohalla 9 advices us to regard this life like a dream – and that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kalasingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2641382&amp;post=15&amp;subd=kalasingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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