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	<title>Business Standard Blogs</title>
	<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com</link>
	<description>Blog on to Indian Business</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>True story</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/11/10/true-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late one night in early September this year, a young relative of mine drove to the Delhi international airport to pick up his girlfriend, who was arriving from a Western land. She had threatened him with consequences if he met her without a bouquet of flowers in his hands and sweet words on his lips.
Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officers on the beat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/10/13/officers-on-the-beat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As if there wasn&#8217;t already enough reason to fear and doubt rather than respect the police, this past week offered a fresh bouquet of police crimes. ContentSutra lists four random instances from around the country, two of which happened in the Delhi region.
The website quotes NewsX admin head Veshakha Gulati thus: “Noida local administrators and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to remember</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/09/24/something-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When travelling one is always on a search for the memorable experience. It may be a vista of snow peaks or a moon-sickle of sand, a good meal in warm company or a treasure-filled museum. Whatever precisely it is, it is something you take back with you to your humdrum life and work, and hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaced out</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/08/13/spaced-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowded and bedraggled as it is, there&#8217;s something uncommonly pleasing about Darjeeling. Having spent a few days there recently, I was able to meditate on how beautiful views and cool weather offer ample compensation for narrow, slippery walkways, running drains, taps running dry, and damp and poky accommodation.
Being a condemned Delhiite, my thoughts turned inevitably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tickety-boo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/07/13/tickety-boo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(1) Here in Delhi traffic tickets tend to arrive in the mail at least a month, and often a few months, after the alleged offence took place. On almost every occasion the alleged offence was committed at a time and a place where our car was not. Every year we receive a ticket relating to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smokestacks are hot</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/06/11/smokestacks-are-hot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Surveying the local skyline, such as it is, from atop my favourite local pedestrian railway bridge, one thing is clear: smokestacks are hot.
Looking southeast towards the Yamuna, I can see a variety of official buildings: the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the police headquarters and its neighbour the CPWD building, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all maya</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/05/12/its-all-maya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way home yesterday I paused for half an hour or so atop the pedestrian railway bridge at a minor local station in Delhi. Watching the people below in constant and reassuring motion, and caressed by a gentling, diesel-tinted breeze — now here comes the dreadfully trite thought — I thought: is it possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventors anonymous</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/04/13/inventors-anonymous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[All sorts of technological brilliance has gone unrewarded through human history. Who invented bread? The canoe? Lipstick and eyeliner? The saddle? Hair gel? Catgut for musical instruments? Shoe polish? Cured leather? The belt buckle? Vehicle suspension, which makes road journeys almost comfortable? Gears? Bullets? The list is nearly endless, and patent-free.
It&#8217;s easy to fantasise about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No more sacred</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/03/16/no-more-sacred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the tide rose high at Mamallapuram, the tourist guides told us, small sluices used to be opened to allow sea water into the Shore Temple. Then the reclining Vishnu in the garbha-griha, lit by lamps, would appear to rest on a sheet of water.
That was in 1990, when the temple was still approached across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sultan of sink</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/02/09/the-sultan-of-sink/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/rrishi/2009/02/09/the-sultan-of-sink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rrishi Raote</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a firm principle of primogeniture, Delhi sultans weren&#8217;t very good at establishing dynasties. And many did not last long. Knowing this, one wise sultan took no chances: he kept his son and heir away from the court, made sure the boy was educated well under the supervision of a respected maulvi, and that he [...]]]></description>
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