diff --git a/recipes/chowk.recipe b/recipes/chowk.recipe
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-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class ChowkRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    __license__ = 'GPL v3'
-    __author__ = 'kwetal'
-    language = 'en_IN'
-    version = 1
-
-    title = u'Chowk'
-    publisher = u'chowk.com'
-    category = u'Opinion, South Asia'
-    description = u'Ideas & Identities of South Asia'
-
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    remove_empty_feeds = True
-    oldest_article = 30
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-
-    remove_javascript = True
-    encoding = 'utf-8'
-
-    feeds = []
-    feeds.append(('Chowk Articles', 'http://www.chowk.com/rss'))
-
-    keep_only_tags = []
-    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'content'}))
-
-    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
-                          'publisher': publisher}
-
-    extra_css = '''
-                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
-                a {text-decoration: none; color: blue;}
-                div.pgtitle {font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;}
-                div.wname, div.date {font-size: x-small; color: #696969;}
-                div.wname {margin-top: 1em;}
-                div.date {margin-bottom: 1em;}
-                div.title {font-weight: bold;}
-                '''
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        main, sep, id = url.rpartition('/')
-
-        return main + '/print/' + id