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		<title>Bangalore theater operators: Do they care about children or the law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">In the US, MPAA assigns ratings like G, PG-13, R ratings to movies. In India, the censor board assigns ratings of U (Universal) and A (Adult).</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">In the US, when you go to a movie with a G</div>&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Elections: Power to the people &#8212; literally</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typically, at this time of the year, you will have to endure frequent power cuts. However, this summer in Bangalore, power cuts have been rare. It&#8217;s possible that the demand for electricity has gone down because of the slowing economy,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Airport is gone but not the noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Noise Pollution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wind tunnel near the old Airport is being operated quite frequently and the sound --- like that of a jet engine --- is deafening; and we are more than a mile away from it.]]></description>
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		<title>Satyam &#8212; Good News, Bad News</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/satyam-good-news-bad-news</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good News: Only 42000 Satyam employees are worried about their jobs and not 55000, as reported earlier.

Bad News: The 13000 phantom employees were giving their salaries to ex-CEO Ramalinga Raju.

Gives a new meaning to the term, a CEO&#8217;s&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Mumbai attacks: Media covered only deaths of rich people &#8212; Arundhati Roy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Guardian article titled <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy">Mumbai was not our 9/11</a>, Arundhati Roy says:

<blockquote>If you were watching television you may not have heard that ordinary people too died in Mumbai. They were mowed down in a busy railway station</blockquote>&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Non State actors &#8212; WTF?</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/non-state-actors-wtf</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The murderers who attacked Mumbai have been called by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukerjee and Secretary of State Rice as &#8220;Non State Actors&#8221;. Imagine telling the victim&#8217;s family &#8220;Your father was killed by a non-state actor&#8221;. As euphemisms go, this&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Schools should not declare holiday when a minister dies</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/schools-should-not-declare-holiday-when-a-minister-dies</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The practice, of declaring a school holiday when a minister dies, should be discontinued. The only exception &#8212; if one is required &#8212;  is when a sitting Prime Minister or President dies in office.

This happens more frequently in India&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing justice &#8212; the Mumbai attacks</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/outsourcing-justice</link>
		<comments>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/outsourcing-justice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, when it comes to kicking butt (literally), we are not good. Let's admit it. After all, we have too much of Gandhi's --- show the other cheek --- blood coursing through our veins to be good in this department. All we can do is to wipe the blood off the counters/stalls/rooms, reopen the shop]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Fatwa against terrorism</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/finally-a-fatwa-against-terrorism</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the &#8216;silent majority&#8217; is no longer silent, it is very good news as nothing else can more effective &#8212; in this case, curbing terrorism. It should make it lot more difficult to entice/recruit youth to go on the wrong&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>West Bengal or West Bandhall?</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/58</link>
		<comments>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Bangalore were renamed Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai and Bengalooru respectively.

Why not rename states? With bandhs happening in the state at frequent intervals why not rename West Bengal as West Bandhall?
]]></description>
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