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		<title>How does Doogie Howser always manage to land someone in Jail?</title>
		<link>http://uberdesi.com/blog/2007/06/26/how-does-doogie-howser-always-manage-to-land-someone-in-jail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ An undated photo showing the Doc with his family. From ABC news.
Just like the original Doogie Howser landed Harold in Jail, the desi version managed to land his parents in Jail.
It was widely reported that Dr. K. Murugesan played a video clip to An Indian Medical Association chapter in Tamilnadu last week in an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://uberdesi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/doc.jpg' alt='doc.jpg' /> An undated photo showing the Doc with his family. <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3313576" target="_blank">From ABC news.</a></p>
<p>Just like the original Doogie Howser <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_%26_Kumar_Go_to_White_Castle" target="_blank">landed Harold in Jail</a>, the <a href="http://uberdesi.com/blog/?p=757">desi version</a> managed to land his parents in Jail.</p>
<p>It was widely reported that Dr. K. Murugesan played a video clip to An Indian Medical Association chapter in Tamilnadu last week in an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of World Records. </p>
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<p>His son was apparently performing a Caesarean birth. The sad part is that the baby was born with a lump on the spinal cord and it has been claimed that the defect had nothing do with the surgery itself. </p>
<p>The law might be slow to catchup, but now that it has, I hope this doc gets banned from practicing medicine for the rest of his life and they keep him behind bars for a few years.</p>
<p>Guinness Book have rightly distanced themselves</p>
<blockquote><p>Amarilis Espinoza, a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records, said in an e-mail Guinness does not endorse such attempts because they encourage the practice of &#8220;bad medicine.&#8221;
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		<title>The whole 9 yards and the ugly truth behind it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The dreadful story behind the beautiful sarisimg: via BBCThe town of Kanchipuram/Kanchi/Kancheepuram is well known among South Indians for its temples and saris. Remember those 9 yard Kanjivaram saris, Amma wears for wedding and other special occasions? Most likely they are made in Kanchipuram by laborers like Ashok Kumar, all of 13 years old and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42741000/jpg/_42741397_silk_203.jpg" alt="Kanchipuram"><em>The dreadful story behind the beautiful saris<BR>img: via BBC</em><BR><BR>The town of Kanchipuram/Kanchi/Kancheepuram is well known among South Indians for its temples and <a target=_blank title="Sarees" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchipuram#Kanchi_Silk_Sarees">saris</a>. <strong>Remember those 9 yard Kanjivaram saris</strong>, Amma wears for wedding and other special occasions? Most likely they are made in Kanchipuram by <a target=_blank title="Child Labor" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6505961.stm">laborers like Ashok Kumar</a>, all of 13 years old and who have been working in virtual slavery like conditions since they were 9 or 10.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ashok is now bonded, forced to do this one job. He is not free to leave unless the debt is repaid. And he is paid just 15p (30 US cents) <em>(UberDesi notes: Most likely its 15Rs and not 15Paise as reported)</em> a day, so there is little hope he will ever do that.<br />
<strong>Ashok&#8217;s boss, Muthu Pereumal, can sell the boy to another employer, trade him like a commodity.</strong><br />
&#8220;He will stay here until he is 20 or 22,&#8221; the boss tells me, standing by Ashok&#8217;s loom, &#8220;or until someone else comes to buy him from me. He will never do anything else but this.&#8221;</p></blockquote>


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