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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>Let&#8217;s get ready for e-cars&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/10/31/lets-get-ready-for-e-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vandana Gombar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Reva is a cute car and I would like to own one of these electric contraptions. It seems like a lot of effort to manage the charging of the car though, especially even if one lives in an apartment on the outskirts of Delhi. And of course, there is hardly any “public” charging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where trains snatch traffic from airlines&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/10/01/where-trains-snatch-traffic-from-airlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vandana Gombar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can a train service compete with an airline service?
The answer is yes.
In what has been described as one of the most lucrative air corridors in Spain &#8212; Madrid – Barcelona &#8212; the high speed bullet train has managed to grab traffic from the airlines.
This is because the high speed train is faster (partly because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mr Pranab Mukherjee&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/07/07/dear-mr-pranab-mukherjee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vandana Gombar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A King shall be diligent….,” you said, quoting Kautilya in your budget speech, and then decided to follow Kautilya’s advice.
But who is the king here, dear sir.
We are living in a democratic country where the government is of the people, and by the people.
It is elected to serve the people rather than rule them.
I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two simple questions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/03/25/two-simple-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vandana Gombar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the reason for India’s declining growth rate?
It is the ripple effect of the global financial crises and the follow-on global economic downturn.
(Read: We are not responsible).
What is the reason for the healthy growth in the first few years of this government?
Here is what finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in his budget speech last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s just do it</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/02/24/lets-just-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vandana Gombar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As every other industry clamours for a stimulus (read bailout) package and intensifies its lobbying efforts with the powers that be (read government), the question that arises is whether there is a superior way to allocate scarce resources.
There is.
How about putting some money back in the individual tax payer’s pocket. Instead of the government collecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramalinga Raju - The no-frown man</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/01/07/ramalinga-raju-the-no-frown-man/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vandana/2009/01/07/ramalinga-raju-the-no-frown-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vandana Gombar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I met Ramalinga Raju for an interview at a time when the company was going through a period of stress. The numbers were not too good as his costs had gone up in an attempt to try to bring Satyam&#8217;s wages in line with industry standards.
Through all the questions in [...]]]></description>
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