<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[My Site 9]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Site 9]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:50:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[RSS and the Idea of Instruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[History is  humanity’s perpetual  memoir whose plot carries a subtext of irony. The indignation of New York’s anti-Semitic mayor Zohran Mamdani towards Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat, the sixth and current Sarsanghchalak of the RSS addressing Indian-Americans is imbued with deep irony. This resentment of Mamdani, a practising Muslim, duplicated a profound dislike of the RSS, which the global liberal-left apparatus casts as the embodiment of exclusion. Bhagawat’s New York script does not fit into this...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/rss-and-the-idea-of-instruction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9cf9b9790d45d6480cafda</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:28:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face the Facts]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE FACE OF THE STATE: How One Man’s Image Became the Machinery of Modern Indian Democracy There was a time when the Indian government announced a scheme. Today, the government often announces the man who announced the scheme. Open a newspaper and there he is. Watch television and there he is. Look at a government billboard, railway station, or welfare programme advertisement and the familiar face appears again: Narendra Modi, looking directly at the citizen—sometimes smiling, sometimes...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/face-the-facts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a97e634a4202c62182a5b3f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:03:52 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Onam That Never Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was touched by a post someone sent me on WhatsApp. It stirred nostalgia and a bit of sadness. There was a photograph in my grandmother’s house in the village of Manali. It’s the kind you see on Instagram but is a real one, yellowing at the edges, taken sometime in the early 1960s. In it, she stands in a mundu, its border gleaming burnt gold, and her hair dark against the jasmine flowers. Behind her, the Onam pookalam is a riot of colors: reds and yellows and whites arranged in spirals. It...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/the-onam-that-never-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a96fb76a4202c62182a3b2e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:59:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Altitude High, Attitude Higher and  No Seat Belts for the Middle Class]]></title><description><![CDATA[The IndiGo implosion is far more than a flurry of flight fiascos. It lays bare a deeper disease of monopoly muscle and sarkari selfishness. It is also the latest chapter in a very old Indian story: our political and corporate establishments share a quiet, well-honed disdain for the ordinary Indian’s time, dignity and rights. From colonial salt taxes to nationalised bank queues to modern telecom blackouts, Indian institutions, both public and private, have long shared the belief that ordinary...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/altitude-high-attitude-higher-and-no-seat-belts-for-the-middle-class</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6940dbf6a5912a76c36a9321</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:12:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_c116f79d765e48259a605d95d8258d86~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_637,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal India United by Differences]]></title><description><![CDATA[India’s problem has never been difference. It has been the sudden urge, every few decades, to pretend that difference was a clerical error. That if we just revised the rolls, corrected the names, purified the lists, the noise would reduce to a chant. This fantasy returns with remarkable regularity. Empires tried it. Reformers tried it. Colonisers perfected it with files and forms. Postcolonial states inherit it with better software and worse patience. The temptation is understandable....]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/eternal-india-united-by-differences</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69402b71a5912a76c36a4640</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:39:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_c2c646c9327440fabe04bb04f54ff3c1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE GHOST OF A KERALA RIVER AND HOW TO SAVE IT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drive through Palghat at dusk, and you’ll find a Kerala that still remembers itself. The paddy fields stretch in emerald sheets, their...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/the-ghost-of-river</link><guid isPermaLink="false">685e69c2d99c65dd82f715fd</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:52:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_719954337fd04e148062d747e9b3ea71~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_685,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HAIR AND WAR; ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought about hair and betrayal when I first read about Israel bombing Iranian nuke factories. There was a time when India could have...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/hair-and-war-all-you-need-to-know</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6852787f05d47c18c4676fe8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:30:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_e4e566ab87c84dcaaddd31d5f4df043e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_724,h_724,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[a unique pastoral retreat in himachal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don’t leave it too late. Places like this don’t stay forever. They return—softly, without complaint—to the earth that birthed them. Back...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/a-unique-pastoral-retreat-in-himachal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">685127500ae8e37d9a003df5</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:32:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_bdea3e9e620d477dace946cc5aa0313c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_575,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE UMRI: A MOUNTAIN POEM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hidden gems aren’t found, they’re felt— in a change of wind, a hush in the trees, a turn in the road that seems to remember. One such...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/the-umri-a-mountain-poem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684fc5bb133a911f20702a21</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:21:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_70fafcbdc06440d5b232ea8305443fda~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECLAIMING A LOST MUSSOORIE]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a few quiet years, I lived in a cottage in Mussoorie with my three dogs. It was built in 1864 with the typical corrugated tin roof...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/reclaiming-a-lost-mussoorie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684eb197e9bc8e7af05141a1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:45:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_c3ea144fb8e042dbb467f2a950c1bbd0~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kahuta, Betrayal, and the Cost of Indian Obedience]]></title><description><![CDATA[History may one day judge that the single greatest failure of Indian strategic thinking wasn’t the loss of territory or the delay in...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/kahuta-betrayal-and-the-cost-of-indian-obedience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684d6e205a220fb24054a63e</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:42:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_c16cf9ec789b4154bfe963cb0026b44d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bomb and the Beard: Why Israel Was Right to Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[“We no longer live in a world,” said President John F. Kennedy during the white-knuckled hours of the Cuban Missile Crisis, “where only...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/the-david-bomb-and-the-beard-why-israel-was-right-to-strike-iran-s-nuclear-sites</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684bd6215a220fb24050b8f2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:47:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_ed299cfa9816405bbcebd5df0dcee3c9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Woke Mirage: Greta Thunberg and the Optics of Selective Outrage]]></title><description><![CDATA[By now, Greta Thunberg’s name is less associated with climate data and more with a kind of messianic performance activism—where outrage...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/the-woke-mirage-greta-thunberg-and-the-optics-of-selective-outrage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684a68a327a8bd11cba7d2b4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:44:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_01bcf9faf3bf42a5aad8d58a15f01900~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[LOVE, MURDER AND OTHER THINGS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Love, that primal force, is both a sanctuary and a battleground. It promises transcendence but often delivers tragedy. Passion fuels its...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/love-murder-and-other-things</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684932f07b3c69bcd5e27fba</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:52:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_d761e9cfd09c407db7fe5027a0ffdce2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Republic of Fragile Feelings]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a meme can land you in jail, what’s the real joke? Last week, an angry Bombay High Court yelled at the Maharashtra government which...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/the-republic-of-fragile-feelings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684806b33f9d19c967109218</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:27:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_4aa13ed008374638b83b7c916e527089~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[WHY MUSSOORIE IS DYING]]></title><description><![CDATA[This blog is written by ChatGPT and edited later. But not much. Mussoorie, the charming hill station located in Uttarakhand, is a popular...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/why-mussoorie-is-dying</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63f06c65c8577e2e5fd798f5</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 06:22:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/5c3438_41ae93c5ce794cd2ae1dd6f592df3e30/1080p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOING TO THE DOGS]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am a dog person. But I'm not an all kinds of dog person. I don't like small dogs because they can be insecure, or think they are bigger...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/going-to-the-dogs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">610a42b0402ee60015f89fa3</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 07:33:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_651ee6d8756e4dd4bab6b2d98c1e6b6e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_970,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PEGASUS GAS]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is something disreputable about snooping. Like the cloying smell of old laundry that lingers in the air after sweaty assignations...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/pegasus-gas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60f696bcabba1500158b38eb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:31:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_6a667201a2ec419b96f6ff5cd39601fd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_711,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PLAYING MISTY FOR ME]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mist gets a lot of bad press. It is associated with vampires, other denizens of the night, murderers and highwaymen and all sorts of...]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/playing-mistry-for-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60ec08d2d623740015a6f5b6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:06:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_c3ea144fb8e042dbb467f2a950c1bbd0~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SPRING VIEW IN YOUR STEP]]></title><description><![CDATA[People with a taste for butter chicken and dal makhni usually gravitate to Mussoorie town and the hostelries in and around Mall Road....]]></description><link>https://etteth1960.wixsite.com/my-site-9/post/spring-view-in-your-step</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60e70c63def0460015e443a3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:53:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5c3438_94f31eb0445a459eb92e9b77479c5ff1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_864,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Ravi Shankar Etteth</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>