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		<title>The Lost American Decade &#8211; 1</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-lost-american-decade-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office released its report on the trends in household income distribution in the United States from 1979 to 2007 this month.  The report, a dour-visaged, smug little document that bursts with tedious detail and persnickety clarification, received front-page coverage.  In previous years the report would have garnered no more attention beyond stuffy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=381&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regroup, Reassess, Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello World! Over the past few months I have been wondering about why I have hit a writer&#8217;s block on my blog, and what I can do to overcome it.  And I&#8217;ve come to some interesting conclusions: One, changing appearance, and other cosmetic changes can add only so much to the overall experience.  Ultimately, output [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=370&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;&#8230;. and back.</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/and-back-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been more than a year.  Far too long. Oceans rose, icebergs melted, and a few hundred polar bears drowned, their bellies churning fat blubber and polychlorinated biphenyl pesticides, their heavy fur dragging them down, the next ice floe too far, their flesh too weak, their spirit too crushed.  Then just for solidarity, the Greeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=355&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>: 291 Vaswani Nagar, North Main Road, Koregaon Park, Pune :</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/291-vaswani-nagar-north-main-road-koregaon-park-pune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pune was a quieter place then.  It was 1997, the year of the last great Pune Floods. M G Road was a one-way road, Deccan looked like a vast campus and Orient Express (since deceased) delivered pizzas to homes. Aundh was a forest, and NDA stood atop a dark and lonely hill in Khadakvasla. There were birds in the lake beyond the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=306&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invictus in the land of the &#8216;Boks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early on in the movie &#8220;Invictus&#8221;, there is a scene when Francois Pienaar&#8217;s father sits around and does a cassandra, while looking at the telly and talking generally, on The State of the Nation. His manner is disaparaging, his atitude pessimistic. As he rails and rants against what he sees as the inevitable collapse of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=299&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>who&#8217;re the three?</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/whore-the-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[3 idiots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 idiots is a movie that was released over christmas in an unprecedented 2126 screens across the world, multiplex screens from Cape town to Canberra carpet bombed with raj kumar hirani&#8217;s latest offering. The film has grossed over 300 crore rupees (thats about $ 70 million) in 19 days, a record in itself, and is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=295&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in the winter of our disconnect</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/in-the-winter-of-our-disconnect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[balasaheb criticises sachin tendulkar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days back, a man called balasaheb thackeray, aging tiger and ailing supremo of the shiv sena made a few snarky comments against sachin tendulkar- cricketing god and all-round nice guy (actually that phrase is more aaccurate the other way round &#8211; &#8220;cricketing nice guy and all-round god&#8221;).  The issue was Sachin&#8217;s comment about how he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=293&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>things the indian people are doing &#8211; 2 :: the mumbai wall project, tulsi road ::</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/26-october-2009-the-mumbai-wall-project-tulsi-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to an ex- mumbaikar: &#8221; see! brilliant idea of bee-emm-cee!   see! hordes of dreamers descend on pipe road, tulsi! ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9822921861#/group.php?gid=9822921861 )   see! a row of dull gray transform into a wall of whimsy and wit! see! lurid bollywood posters of &#8220;gair&#8221; &#38; &#8220;aladin&#8221; plastered all over it!   (as amitabh glowers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=287&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11 of october, 2009 :: things the indian people are doing &#8211; 1 ::</title>
		<link>http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/11-of-october-2009-things-the-indian-people-are-doing-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is inspired by the immensely popular &#8220;stuff white people like&#8221; [read http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/] With significant differences, of course. I&#8217;m not white, for instance.  Neither am I christian (nor is my name Christian, for that matter). And most, importantly, Indians aren&#8217;t white. Other attributes are also that they are not homogenous : scattered as they are across more than a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=280&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2nd october 2009 :: Happy Birthday ::</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama just increased his fan base by another 100 million or so. Amid widespread american disaffection with what they see as selling out to the devil (read republican profligacy and heavy-handedness), this man is looking at other, more friendly shores for his re-election bid. He should come to India, really. Considering the country&#8217;s future options are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1040332&amp;post=271&amp;subd=wiralmenongitis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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