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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>Dial ‘M’ for Money</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/11/16/dial-%e2%80%98m%e2%80%99-for-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television channels and newspaper reports claim that Madhu Koda (former chief minister of Jharkhand) has embezzled Rs 4,000 crore. Recent reports point out that transactions worth Rs 650 crore, a small portion of the money, took place in the Union Bank of India.
I am always bewildered by these numbers. How does one carry this amount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Sir’ – a much-abused word</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/10/08/%e2%80%98sir%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-a-much-abused-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While growing up, the word ‘sir’ meant respect for elders, mostly teachers. Of course, it did not mean that we did not make fun of them in their absence&#8230; well, sometimes in their presence as well  
But coming from a smaller town (Patna) and a family of school and college teachers, I almost grew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green shoots? I wonder&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/08/26/green-shoots-i-wonder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the sharp upward movement in the stock markets would indicate that the worst is over, the numbers are not too convincing.
Analysts are clear in their view that better corporate numbers worldwide are more a function of reduced costs, rather than better performance.
As far as India goes, already drought has hit the country pretty badly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inconvenience in progress&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/07/29/inconvenience-in-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traffic snarls are a common feature in Mumbai. Hardly a day goes, when one is not stuck because roads are being dug somewhere, there’s some morcha and if nothing else, some construction work.
I travel by road on the Western line (for non-Mumbaites, the Western line is from Churchgate to Virar, maybe even further now). And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duronto, Ijjot and now&#8230; Boget</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/07/06/duronto-ijjot-and-now-boget/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/07/06/duronto-ijjot-and-now-boget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budgets always invoke a lot of speculation. While a whole bunch of experts believe that it is a non-event, a lot of people keep themselves hooked on to the television. And then, the usual culprits come and demystify the numbers for ‘aam aadmi’.Here are some common features of every Budget.
The opposition will always say that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Saina (not Sania)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/06/23/it%e2%80%99s-saina-not-sania/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/06/23/it%e2%80%99s-saina-not-sania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: Yes, I agree that Sania Mirza has done wonders for Indian Women’s Tennis.
But the comparison ends there.

I have a rather bad habit. Before going to sleep, I watch news. Sometimes, it’s a business channel (yuck to many), but mostly normal tamasha on news channels.
Yesterday, there was real tamasha. Some channels went quite gaga over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is a non-performer?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/05/14/who-is-a-non-performer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/05/14/who-is-a-non-performer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 07:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, whenever companies sack their employees, the standard line is &#8230; “their performance was not in line with our parameters.” Or, something similar. While it may be true in some cases, that argument looks more than a bit stretched in most.
Let’s do a reality check. Not so long so, industry bodies were claiming that there’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The twin trials of Madoff and Raju</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/03/24/the-twin-trials-of-madoff-and-raju/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/03/24/the-twin-trials-of-madoff-and-raju/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 10, 2008 – Former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme discovered by his sons and reported to federal authorities
December 11, 2008 – Bernard Madoff arrested, later put under house arrest
March 12, 2009 – Bernard Madoff confesses to $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Court verdict: Jail and faces maximum penalty of 150 years. Assets frozen and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The irony of Harshad Mehta</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/02/26/the-irony-of-harshad-mehta/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/02/26/the-irony-of-harshad-mehta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met him once in mid-1998. Actually, I tagged along with my bureau chief B Krishnakumar (The Week).
In 1998, the stock market had again started misbehaving. In the first few months, it had shot up, only to crash within days. And some stocks, especially the ones whose promoters were advised by the big bull were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame it on the media&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/01/20/blame-it-on-the-media/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/joydeep/2009/01/20/blame-it-on-the-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joydeep Ghosh</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am angry.
Every time something goes wrong, it&#8217;s the media&#8217;s fault. Just today, I received a mail that read something like this:
&#8220;Attached are the new Sebi guidelines for FMPs. No portfolio, no indicative yield, no exit.
This product just got killed. I hope the media is happy. Every one is going into bank deposits where the [...]]]></description>
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