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	<title>Business Standard Blogs</title>
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	<description>Blog on to Indian Business</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What an idea</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/aanand/2009/08/13/what-an-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aanand Pandey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noble laureate Amartya Sen, whom The Economist refers to as an ‘economist who thinks like a philosopher’, one who can &#8216;theorise without oxygen at any height’, recently released his latest book, The Idea of Justice.
On August 5, Sen delivered a lecture in Kolkata drawing upon the premise of his latest book. Media reports of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nilekani’s first day in office</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/aanand/2009/07/17/nilekani%e2%80%99s-first-day-in-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aanand Pandey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani will take charge as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UDAI) project next week. That is when he will move into his new office. (Currently, he is sitting in the Planning Commission office, a Business Standard report said today). One can’t help but think of an imaginary scenario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology to the rescue</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/aanand/2009/06/02/technology-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aanand Pandey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the auctioning of third generation (3G) and Broadband Wireless spectrums sometime during this year, we will reach closer to the dream where telephony and internet connectivity could become ubiquitous in rural areas. And everyone in our remote and scattered villages can access essential services such as distance education, health care and mainstream commerce. 
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking of laughter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/aanand/2009/05/04/laughter-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 12:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aanand Pandey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday was World Laughter Day. Laughter, true to the term, is a funny word. Add the letter ‘S’ to it and it becomes slaughter.  Slaughter makes me think of the swine. Utterance of the word swine could bring someone &#8212; someone in uniform perhaps &#8212; to minds of security people today who have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dance of the spirits</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/aanand/2009/03/30/the-dance-of-the-spirits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aanand Pandey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited Mehendipur last week. Located around 100 km north of Jaipur, Mehendipur is a small kasba off the Agra-Jaipur highway. You must thank your stars if you haven&#8217;t heard of this place. Mehendipur houses a shrine that draws millions of people every year who come there to exorcise evil spirits.  
A vast number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The young and the clueless</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/aanand/2009/03/02/the-young-and-the-clueless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aanand Pandey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Economy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Business Standard editorial piece published today suggests that India’s GDP growth in the fourth quarter of FY2008 will likely be slower than the 5.3 per cent growth recorded in the preceding quarter of the fiscal.
Hang on, there is more bad news.
In his latest column published in ToI’s Sunday edition, Swaminathan S Ankelasaria Aiyar ventured [...]]]></description>
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