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		<title>A different kind of VIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I had gone to the end-of-the-year function at my kids&#8217; school. Some performances &#8212; singing, dancing, skits &#8212; were scheduled. There was a delay in the start of the program. A VIP was supposed to make a speech and as usual he was fashionably late. We were told that it was  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/a-different-kind-of-vip" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Need green to go green in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Driving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t use Chevy and <em>Car of the Year</em> in the same sentence. But the Motor Trend 2011 <em>Car of the Year</em> is the Chevy Volt. Unlike the Toyota Prius, the Volt can be used like a plugin-hybrid if you charge the batteries overnight and drive no more than 40 miles (64 km) per day.  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/need-green-to-go-green-in-india" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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, but that does not explain it completely. The elections are round the corner: the incumbents  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/indian-elections-power-to-the-people-literally" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Airport is gone but not the noise</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/noise-pollution-india/airport-is-gone-but-not-the-noise</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noise Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noise pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bangalore Airport has moved to a new location outside the city. But for the residents near the old Airport, the noise has not gone away. The wind tunnel near the old Airport is being operated quite frequently and the sound &#8212; like that of a jet engine &#8212; is deafening; and we are more  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/noise-pollution-india/airport-is-gone-but-not-the-noise" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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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 salary is several times the salary of an entry level employee. <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/satyam-good-news-bad-news" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></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 and a public hospital. The terrorists did not distinguish between poor and rich. They killed  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/mumbai-attacks-media-covered-only-deaths-of-rich-people-arundhati-roy" class="read_more">... read more</a></blockquote>]]></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>
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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 one is pretty bad. If you want to say that the murderers were not state-sponsored,  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/non-state-actors-wtf" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></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 because in the short 60 year time span since Independence, we have had several Prime  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/schools-should-not-declare-holiday-when-a-minister-dies" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing justice &#8212; the Mumbai attacks</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/outsourcing-justice</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Companies all over the world turn to India when they need to outsource business processes or call centers or even cutting edge technical work. We are good at this kind of work.

However, when it comes to kicking butt (literally), we are not good. Let&#8217;s admit it. After all, we have too much of Gandhi&#8217;s  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/outsourcing-justice" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></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 path.

The Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), the country&#8217;s largest Islamic organisation, on Saturday Nov 8, endorsed a  <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/finally-a-fatwa-against-terrorism" class="read_more">... read more</a>]]></description>
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