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	<title>Feline Musings &#187; balancing act</title>
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		<title>Random Notes on the Role of the Modern Woman</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2010/02/23/random-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/?p=1393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A confusing scenario; a messy state of affairs – women are supposed to be well-bred, educated and enlightened but at the same time their individual choices and career preferences have to be compromised in the face of pushy social norms. While men have always required women to work side-by-side with them – be it in farmlands, or orchards, or managing entire households and the finances while the men were at war or away on voyage – it is the modern trend of equal financial contributors that has added to the role of the women. In most families today, the burden of loans, lifestyle and spiraling expenses is forcing reliance on double-income and when this trend started more than a decade back, there emerged the concept of DINK – Double Income No Kids. But as women developed work-family life balance, social and familial demands on compliance to traditional child bearing and rearing roles were reasserted.]]></description>
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		<title>In doldrums &#8211; Between Guilt and Fear</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/07/19/guilt-and-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/07/19/guilt-and-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/?p=368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The moment I decide to comply, the boulder of guilt lifts from my heart. I should feel happy and light because I am finally made peace and decided to comply as expected. But I am not happy; I am all the more forlorn, and there is another pressing weight on my heart. The dark clouds of fear engulf me and suffocate me. ]]></description>
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		<title>To have or not to have!</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/06/22/to-have-or-not-to-have/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/06/22/to-have-or-not-to-have/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/?p=340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an age of DINKs &#8211; Double Income No Kids, I am faced with the pertinent question &#8211; To have or not to have &#8211; kids (or a kid, to be precise). Seven months down blissful matrimony, a belated honeymoon, and quite a well-settled household, the attention has been diverted to my aging ovaries. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Multiple Personality Disorder</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/06/18/multiple-personality-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/06/18/multiple-personality-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For an Indian woman, the pressure is emotional as well as social. While she wants to give the best to her husband, by maintaining an orderly house, a daily schedule and hot breakfast and meals served with love, any desire to go lax and easy is ruthlessly subdued by family expectations that you take the best care of your husband. So, if a hot, savory breakfast was the mother’s responsibility (and love) towards her son, the duty immediately falls on the shoulder of the “bahu” to ensure that the son is sent to work with a fully appeased stomach!]]></description>
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		<title>Double(d) Income</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/05/04/doubled-income/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/05/04/doubled-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 06:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/04/04/doubled-income/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Congratulations! I heard your income got doubled.” A friend enthusiastically shook my hand. I gave him a wry look.
I thought he was rubbing salt on my fresh wounds; the abrasion caused by my less than 5% annual pay hike!  
The friend read my confusion, and clarified, “Congratulations on your marriage. Isn’t it the easiest way to double [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once upon a time &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/04/30/once-upon-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/04/30/once-upon-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a story of evasion – the way I try to evade the new beginnings of each day and the way each beginning eludes its own end. It may have been the story of life, alas, only if it had an end! It is then actually a story of quest – the quest for a conclusion. ]]></description>
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		<title>Reading between the lines vs. Reading only the line!</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/04/22/reading-between-the-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/04/22/reading-between-the-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/04/22/reading-between-the-lines-vs-reading-only-the-line/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ A plain, simple, innocent, and not-intended-to-either-offend-or-appease Statement! ]]></description>
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		<title>Options Galore</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/19/options-galore/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/19/options-galore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/14/options-galore/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was July and the night was stormy. I had been immensely delayed in office and by the time I could wind up my work, it was nearly 10:30 PM. I did not want to wait for the office cab, which would take another half an hour to pick me up. I saw a lone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In honor of the significant &#8220;she&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/18/in-honor-of-the-significant-she/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/18/in-honor-of-the-significant-she/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/18/an-ode-to-the-significant-she/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hear the door swish with the push of her hand as she gingerly steps in, and I know its time to come back from la-la land. My husband is already out of bed &#8211; brewing the perfect early morning tea with a dash of ginger, for self and her. We three have our first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She too is a working woman</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/10/she-too-is-a-working-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/10/she-too-is-a-working-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/10/she-too-is-a-working-woman/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She told me it was cold when she was leaving for her house after cooking dinner at my neighbor’s house. I asked her what time does she normally finish her work everyday. She said 9:30 PM. 
“So you cook again when you go home!”
&#8220;Not exactly. I only make the chapattis or heat up the vegetable/curry!”
“Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check Mate!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/08/check_mate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/08/check_mate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/02/14/urban-myths-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ They asked me how much I earn. I shrugged the question aside without mentioning a numeric figure. Their curiosity not satiated, they turned towards my husband and inquired about our salaries. My husband also refused to quote an exact amount. They started guessing and threw in some figures as our combined salaries. No response from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disconnected … because we are connected!</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/23/disconnected/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/23/disconnected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/23/disconnected/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ I carry a mobile, work in an IT company and have a 24-hr unlimited internet connection at home. This implies I have complete access to a plethora of news and information websites, blogs and networking sites and have email accounts and photo albums on most free web spaces. I am connected, virtually. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Male hubris, female humility&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/17/male-hubris-female-humility/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/17/male-hubris-female-humility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/17/male-hubris-female-humility/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It is proven. Psychologist Professor Adrian Furnham, of University College London, analyzed the results of 25 studies on IQ and gender differences and his findings say that men are deluded about the supremacy of their mental prowess. http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1145381
He backs the concept of &#8220;male hubris, female humility&#8221; effect wherein male IQ is not at higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To &#8220;No&#8221; or to &#8220;Know&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/13/learn-to-say-no/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/13/learn-to-say-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>felinemusings</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/03/learn-to-say-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Taken from an article &#8220;Learning to say &#8216;No&#8217;&#8221;by Robin Sharma (author of The Greatness Guide) published on dnaindia.com
Sunday, December 30, 2007 03:31 IST
&#8220;Every time you say yes to something that is unimportant, you are saying no to something that is important. ‘Yes men’ and ‘yes women’ never create anything great. There’s huge value in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is an ocean</title>
		<link>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/07/life-is-an-ocean/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.felinemusings.com/2008/01/07/life-is-an-ocean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I attended an official stress management session by Hans Dholakia (www.hansyoga.com). While it was centered on Yoga and Meditation to beat our daily dose of mental and physical stress, what mainly held my interest in the session was Hans&#8217; reflections on Life. He threw light on many significant aspects of life &#8211; karma, astral [...]]]></description>
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