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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Trenches&#8230; But, Not For War Time</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/11/08/trenches-but-not-for-war-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a sight to behold. It was incomprehensible how a road that was just about fine just the previous night now had a trench cut right through the middle like we are prepared for a bombing raid by an enemy air force. It is like all of us are only waiting for the sirens to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted Logic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/26/twisted-logic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The silk industry in India has been complaining of dumping by the Chinese. There are press conferences every now and then by either the industry or the reelers or some other aggrieved party to complain about the cheaper Chinese silk imports.
The Chinese have also been facing flak from across the world for their ability to sell cheap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aging not Welcome</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/20/the-aging-not-welcome/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/20/the-aging-not-welcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those with a cell phone connection are well aware of the numerous calls from many a firm wanting to sell you products and services.
The number of calls from banks and other firms wanting to sell you financial products and services are dime a dozen.
It&#8217;s often a big challenge to shake them off. Most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSR, in style!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/16/csr-in-style/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/16/csr-in-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HR department of a multi-national corporation which is into developing embedded software, decided to get their employees involved in some CSR activity.
The employees were also told they would get credit for participating in the CSR activities. They took time to work on the right kind of CSR activity as they had to first of all get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perils On Way to Being a Super-power</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/09/perils-on-way-to-being-a-super-power/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/09/perils-on-way-to-being-a-super-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders, both business leaders and political leaders, are often seen patting themselves for taking India perilously close to being a super power.
But, not in political terms or economic terms. But, as a super power for providing IT services for businesses around the world. Wealth creation is what the leaders speak of when they speak of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoilt Brats</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/05/spoilt-brats/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/10/05/spoilt-brats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a village near Mavelikera, not very far from Kerala&#8217;s capital Thiruvananthapuram, a village is slowly coming to terms with a few changes in the labour market. The concept of wage is being revolutionised there. In a state already reeling from serious labour shortages, people who don&#8217;t mind physical labour  are the &#8216;lucky&#8217; ones.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H1N1 doesn&#8217;t spare the priest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/09/12/h1n1-doesnt-spare-the-priest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/09/12/h1n1-doesnt-spare-the-priest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
Ashok Kumara Bhatta, a pujari by profession, is now well-versed with the H1N1 virus. Not that he is a part-time doctor or that he has contracted it. But, its fear has hit him where it hurts the most. His income has fallen drastically, to put it mildly. He is finding it difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making it Simple</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/09/12/making-it-simple/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/09/12/making-it-simple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sit down to write a blog. Spend some time on it. I do a spell check, check the blog for errors, and then I click on the upload button. Voila! I get logged out.
I log in again, after the server goes up, to check if the blog has been uploaded. Alas, it was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onam Crosses Border</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/09/01/onam-crosses-border/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/09/01/onam-crosses-border/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All my life I have known Onam as the harvest festival of Kerala, and a day I can throw dietary cautions to the winds. Most often friends and most acquaintances may even have know that it is Onam.
Hey, but this year seems a little different. All over the airwaves, in many languages you have ads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of Shezan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/08/25/in-memory-of-shezan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/praveen-bose/2009/08/25/in-memory-of-shezan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Praveen Bose</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been ten days. And, I still can&#8217;t get over the fact that the restaurant next door is no more. The floor where the restaurant operated is now just an empty, blank space.
The exorbitant rent was too much for the operator to swallow. The land-lord had been trying to evict the restaurant operator for over [...]]]></description>
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