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<title>Meter Down  </title>
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<description>Conversations in Hindi with Bombay taxi drivers about migration and home, Bombay and change, taxi driving and life, and some great taxi stories.</description>
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<itunes:summary>Conversations in Hindi with Bombay taxi drivers about migration and home, Bombay and change, taxi driving and life, and some great taxi stories.</itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>bombay, taxi, hindi, interview, urban, oral history, taxi driver</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
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<itunes:email>cubbykabi@yahoo.com</itunes:email>
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<title>idris</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=571836#</link>
<description><![CDATA[irdris is from gujarat. He came to bombay 30 years ago. he lives in dharavi and we speak about its redevelopment, about his life, about films, about undiyo too. <br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
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<title>mohammad khan</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=555956#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mohammad Mustaqeen Khan came to Bombay from UP, a strong 20 year old man from a village, and
started out in haath gadi at Do Tanki in Chor Bazaar area.&nbsp; Twenty-six
years later he has bought more land, rebuilt his home and married off 4
children, all from driving taxi. We talk about street level economics,
how much he used to make and what it bought, how much he makes now and
what it buys.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:keywords>bombay, mumbai, hindi, taxi, taxi driver, oral history, migration, street economics</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>mahadev singh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Mahadev Singh left Jharkhand 20 years ago as a 20-year old youth, it was
Bihar he left. He came with friends who were cooks in homes on Malabar
Hill. He didn't like cooking. He has been driving a taxi for 10 years.
This is his story.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:duration>00:26:21</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>bombay, mumbai, hindi, taxi, taxi driver, oral history, migration</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>vijay kumar</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=518748#</link>
<description><![CDATA[This podcast is a Bombay story told by a Class 3 drop-out who has
poured his sweat into the labouring jobs that build this city and keep
it vital. He calls Bombay home but he doesn't see his place in the
future city.]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:duration>00:24:35</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>bombay, mumbai, hindi, taxi, bombay taxi driver, bombay taxi, oral history</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>ram sanwar</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=501951#</link>
<description><![CDATA[ram sanvar works in new great eastern mill in the day and drives taxi at night and has for 27 years. UP, Bombay, Taxi Driver, Mill Worker. We all contain our multiplicities. Listen to the story of his. please visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com<br _moz_editor_bogus_node="TRUE"/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:duration>00:25:30</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>bombay, taxi, hindi, mills, oral history, taxi driver, mill worker, new eastern mills, UP, </itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<item>
<title>seva lal revisited</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490453#</link>
<description><![CDATA[seva lal was the 4th driver in meterdown podcasts. at that time he was uncertain about his future in the face of the impending cancellations because his taxi was 25 years old. his taxi has been cancelled and he no longer driver kaali-peeli because he can't afford the loan terms. visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com for photos, outtakes from the podcast and a little video<br/>]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:duration>00:19:19</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>bombay, taxi, hindi, taxi driver, taxi cancellation, lower parel, mns</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>rafiq</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=459344#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rafiq has lived in in Jijamata Nagar, Worli, his whole
life. His taxi had been cancelled because it was 25 years old. He has
had this new one for a month. He says it is more comfortable to drive
and he doesnât get as tired but he describes the loan as atyachar, taxi
ka atyachar, and Bombay as a confuse nagari. please visit the blog at meterdown.wordpress.com<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<item>
<title>kadeer</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458236#</link>
<description><![CDATA[kadeer is a reluctant taxi driver. He has had many jobs, has worked in the Gulf. He was born in bombay. listen to us sing a duet. visit the blog at meterdown.wordpress.com for additional audio files and photos]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>mohammad kasab</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458237#</link>
<description><![CDATA[mohammad kasab is from hyderabad but came to bombay when he was 10, with a group of friends. that was 42 years ago. he is the first driver from the south, the first not from a village and the first to have cast a vote for the mns party. visit meterdown.wordpress.com for photos and more audio files]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<item>
<title>sebastian fernandes</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458240#</link>
<description><![CDATA[this is the first podcast after the 26/11 attacks on bombay. sebastian fernandes, born and brought up here, has a lot to say about it. please visit the blog at meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 16:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>jamid ali </title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458241#</link>
<description><![CDATA[This conversation is different. Jamid Ali is my friend and I know his story. I wanted to share it. And listen to him sing his ghazals, his naghmas. Visit Http://meterdown.wordpress.com for photos, small video clip and more ghazals]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>arvind kumar rai</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458243#</link>
<description><![CDATA[arvind kumar rai is an HSC science graduate from UP. how did he end up an educated taxi driver in bombay? please also visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>junaid</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458246#</link>
<description><![CDATA[junaid is from the chiliya community, which means he is from gujarat, not from UP. they were the orginal bombay taxi drivers way back at the beginning. we spoke on a very rainy monday after the bomb blasts in ahmedabad, about them, about 1992, about the city, and about taxi driving. visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>anil chauhan</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458247#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anil Chauhan is 18 years old and its his 15th day driving. He left home the first time when he was 13. All the stories we have heard so far are told from the distance of adulthood and memory. Anil is living these stories now and its at the beginning. Please visit blog at meterdown.wordpress.com
]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 08:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>lal mohammad khan</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458249#</link>
<description><![CDATA[lal mohammad khan and i had the raciest conversation yet, while still staying within the boundaries. HIV/AIDs, safe sex condoms and a wild youth. visit the bog at meterdown.wordpress.com for outtakes, photos and even a video.]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>sagir bhai</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458251#</link>
<description><![CDATA[sagir bhai arrived in 1984 as a 16 year old runaway who had just failed his 10th board exams. he speaks to us of 1992, raj thackeray, film shoots, one room dwellings and bombay uska jaan. visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>nabob bhai</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458253#</link>
<description><![CDATA[nabob bhai and I had a very filmi conversation; favourite heros, heroines and songs. But he also responds, as a Muslim and a bhaiyya, to the communal and chauvinistic voices of bombay. please visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>lallan singh</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458254#</link>
<description><![CDATA[lallan singh comes from jharkhand. He tells us of his place in this new city of bombay of malls and towers and explains how high dahej can affect the education of the girl child.    visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com ]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>mushtaq qureshi</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458255#</link>
<description><![CDATA[mushtaq qureshi is president and founder of city taxi union. he gives us a different  point of view in our kaali-peeli ki kahani. Visit the blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>abdul wahid khan</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458256#</link>
<description><![CDATA[abdul wahid khan is full of stories. he tells us of his life in bombay, his pride in his son and the tensions of this years 12th board exams, and his own faith in Khuda. for photos and podcast outtakes visit --&gt;
http://meterdown.wordpress.com        ]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>subash chand</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458257#</link>
<description><![CDATA[subash chand arrived in bombay from UP and slept on the footpaths of grant rd. he now owns his own taxi and wants to work in saudia. he tells us his story and desribes his life and dreams. meter down blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com  blog now in hindi also. my email: cubbykabi (at) yahoo (dot) com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>seva lal jaiswal</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458259#</link>
<description><![CDATA[seva lal jaiswal talks of his taxi union, sex and kissing in the back seat, how he handles fare who dont want to pay, and as he tells his story, he discloses something personal. Meter Down blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com  Transcript available there in Hindi]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
</item>
<item>
<title>guptaji</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458261#</link>
<description><![CDATA[guptaji has been driving taxi since 1967. 40 years. he speaks of bombay in the time of the mills, the fautlines that have appeared in the our city post 1993 and he tells us his story. meter down blog at http://meterdown.wordpress.com]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>babu</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458263#</link>
<description><![CDATA[babu describes his 25 years in bombay, and the travails and future of taxi driving. he also has a story about raj kapoor.

visit http://meterdown.wordpress.com
for shownotes, photos and more audio snippets]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:21:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Hari Lal Yadav</title>
<link>http://cubbykabi.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=458266#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hari Lal Yadav describes his home in UP, his home in Bombay, his family in both places. He tells some taxi stories and he explains the machinations of the new taxi fleet owners with the driver and their union over taxi licenses and what the future might hold.

visit http://meterdown.wordpress.com
for shownotes, photos and more audio snippets]]></description>
<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>kabi </itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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