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		<title>A latitudinal challenge to religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science and religion don&#8217;t often tread he same path, and when ever they do, there is some astronomy involved in a rather teasing manner. Practising muslims observe fast in the islamic month of ramadan, in simple words they don&#8217;t eat anything while the sun is out on the horizon.  Islamic calender is a lunar one. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=122&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An identity recognition away from home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The present escalation of protests in the Indian controlled Kashmir definitely has a lot to do with a seperate identity for Kashmiris. That seems to have been achieved for now, far away here in the English Midlands. I went to register at a local library run by Birmingham Council a couple of months back ( [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=118&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rich man&#8217;s olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it only me who gets a feeling everytime I watch winter olympics, that they could easily be called rich man&#8217;s olympics. A sort of a feeling that attaches them to something elite, private schoolish, like rugby, while summer olympics is sort of working classish. Thats probably, because majority of participation in these games is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=116&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulam Nabi Azad&#8217;s inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian central health and family welfare minister recently came up with a wonderful solution for the country&#8217;s population crisis. He was of the opinion that India&#8217;s population crisis can be addressed with one magic pill &#8211; no not the i-pill or unwanted-72, which I am told by the media are two of the best performing products [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=107&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leave no stones unturned !</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Leave no stones unturned&#8217;. Thats the golden rule when it comes to territorial claims and the related propaganda war. DD News, the state owned 24 hours news channel, includes Gilgit and Chitral in its city/town weather report in its telecasts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=104&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The blue marble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bumped into this at a souvenir shop on Swanston street in Melbourne. A map where southern hemisphere is on top, with the prime meridian criss crossing through Australia, Papua new guinea, Japan, Russia etc.  Looks completely different, contrary to our view of the world.  Mercator would be proud of this.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=102&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Following reality show from down under</title>
		<link>http://ratnakar.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/following-reality-show-from-down-under/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 03:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Away from the action down under in Victoria, getting a broadband internet connection to follow the indian general election results, was numero uno on my things to do this morning. Thanks to my hotel, that was easier than making Maggi. Interesting one, it might be this time, as we may see Dr Singh getting one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=98&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Godly cash flows</title>
		<link>http://ratnakar.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/godly-cash-flows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People think that the credit crunch is a creation of the 21st century. However, like the religious fundementalists say, all things are there in the scriptures. The Gods of India have a practical example of how individuals with low credit ratings are forced to accept loan terms which are frankly usurious. In contrast, we shall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=95&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looks like recession is really here !</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Took some time to realise and more importantly digest the same, but some reasons to believe recession is here definitely. 1. The pantry on my office workfloor used to stock badam powder, instant coffee powder, tea bags, Filter kaapi dicaution and of course fresh milk to mix with any of the above ingredients. A fortnight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=88&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE Reality Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People tend to forget that long before Endemols and Alvas were wearing short pants, Nirvachan Sadan brought reality shows into India in 1952 itself. Common, what can be more real than a billion (discount the billion to what ever amount it was in 1952) people voting  across the country. And a point worth noting is that, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratnakar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=174556&amp;post=74&amp;subd=ratnakar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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