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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The pleasures of the short</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/09/30/the-pleasures-of-the-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reading the complete stories of Lydia Davis, and most of them are no more than a page or two long. Some, in fact, last only a few lines, like this one:
In a house besieged lived a man and a woman. From where they cowered in the kitchen the man and woman heard small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controversial essay leads to uproar—or does it?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/08/18/controversial-essay-leads-to-uproar%e2%80%94or-does-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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An article written by a Chinese demagogue for a “patriotic” website has received surprisingly scant attention in India. Zhan Lue (a pseudonym for ‘strategy’) of the Institute for International Strategic Studies has written a widely circulated article that advocates China should work at splitting India into 30 states and take the help of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a hash(mi) of the truth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/08/04/making-a-hashmi-of-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Emraan Hashmi episode — where the actor alleged that he was denied an apartment in a Pali Hill society because he is Muslim — has generated understandable outrage, with the media, the ever-present electronic media in particular, latching on to the case to once again bolster its secular (?) credentials. However, the case, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like chickens with their heads cut off</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/07/21/like-chickens-with-their-heads-cut-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article published in November 2007, Christopher Booker wrote in the Telegraph that the coverage of climate trends “carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about love, not sex</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/07/09/its-about-love-not-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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In the euphoria surrounding the Delhi High Court judgment that decriminalised homosexuality, an important point — one that has some relevance with homosexuality’s wider acceptance in society — is being ignored: homosexuality is not just about gay sex.

The law will come to accept “sexual acts against the order of nature” but what about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning on the job</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/06/19/learning-on-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself grappling with the age-old debate about university education versus work experience when a friend, who could not complete a political science degree with an Australian university (no relation to the recent race attacks there), met me over dinner. The issue was financial, with a hoped-for grant not coming through and his finances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All for a decent education</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/06/03/all-for-a-decent-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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The gory, frightening and distressful pictures of Indian students in Australia being brutally beaten up is a shameful and disgusting outcome of Indian universities&#8217; inability to provide quality education and absorb discerning Indian students, compelling them to seek admission abroad and set the ball rolling for hurt and abuse.
It speaks of the sad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime and monies and glamour</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/04/29/crime-and-monies-and-glamour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Sudhir Venkatesh, professor of sociology at Columbia University, wrote about the life of Chicago drug lords in Gang Leader for a Day, media everywhere lauded his courage at daring to chronicle a positively gritty side of American street life. Well, if Venkatesh was courageous, Roberto Saviano can only be called crazy.
We know how The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last great philosophical quandary</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/03/27/the-last-great-philosophical-quandary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Suicide, it is said, is the last remaining unresolved philosophical challenge. This week, Nicholas Hughes, the son of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, hanged himself at his home in Alaska. He had been battling depression for a long time. Nicholas was unmarried and without children. Some call it the curse of the Plaths. Sylvia put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting past ghosts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/vikram/2009/03/20/revisiting-past-ghosts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vikram Johri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I completed my engineering in Gwalior but attended the first year at Indore&#8217;s SGSITS. This was 2001, the first time that I had stepped outside home. I used to stay in an apartment with two other first-year students. All of us, as unwritten rules demanded, wore to college white shirts whose third button was blue. [...]]]></description>
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