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		<title>2012 &#8211; Dirty Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually I am pretty optimistic about the new year and also full of opinions on what is going to happen in the next year. It ofcourse never turns out that way (for example &#8211; I can sadly can&#8217;t claim to predict the global financial crisis on the cover of my book)  but since when has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=368&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neutrinos in my head</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/neutrinos-in-my-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watching a programme last night on neutrinos making their journey into CERN at a speed faster than light and as those neutrinos pass through the detectors they make little spikes in otherwise flat lines. While the commentators focussed on how this means that we could go back in time my mind was fixated on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=366&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of it all</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/the-politics-of-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to build more on the political side of this debate from both sides.  After all this is one of the things that politicians do well , in theory, is politics. Even if it is about being self-serving, which most of them are, they still play a lot of politics. I don&#8217;t use the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=364&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Anna debate</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-anna-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the debate on the Lokpal bill there are so many thoughts running through my head. There are so many strands in the campaign for this bill and the implications of this campaign and the bill are far reaching. While the scale and the intensity of the campaign has taken many commentators by surprise, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=361&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ramdev business</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-ramdev-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pace of politics in India sometimes puts the fast-moving consumer good business to shame. There is always some state election or the other on and outside of the election calendar there are all sorts of political movements shaping up. This is one reason why I find UK politics relatively boring, even though some commentators [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=357&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan &#8211; now or never</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/pakistan-now-or-never/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I look back at the events of the last week the title of this post, which takes its name from the Reuters blog on Pakistan, comes to mind again and again. When Osama was killed last week my first thoughts were very cynical on what this will achieve and where does Pakistan and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=355&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me why</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/tell-me-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost the end of another year. I think I have just enough time to squeeze in another post. I ended my last post wishing for a crystal ball and a cheat sheet to decipher the ways of our world. Santa did get me that crystal ball and I have been busy peering into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=353&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kowtow</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/kowtow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word kowtow is an interesting one. It was used to describe the act of bowing to the Chinese emperor which the British refused to do in the Chinese imperial court as this would mean submission to the emperor. Those were ofcourse the heady days of the British colonial empire. These days the British foreign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=349&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncommon wealth</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/uncommon-wealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing commonwealth games in Delhi have raised all sorts of questions in my head for which my traditional paradigms (if i may call them that) which usually suffice for most India related questions. It helps me deal with my own questions and confusions, helps me give sensible answers to people around me who don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=346&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The case for a mosque</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-case-for-a-mosque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am usually an impartial observer to debates which involve religion. My only contribution to the debate is usually to say that we have all come from the same place and we will all end up in the same place. What you call that place and how you think you will get there depends on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=342&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land of the pure</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/land-of-the-pure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news about Pakistan in the past couple of months has gone from bad to worse and just when I think this is the bottom, the country manages to find a new bottom. But in many ways the problems are only a manifestation of what&#8217;s been visible for some time now and the natural disasters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=338&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sonarbangla</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/sonarbangla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in my plush hotel room in Dhaka I am looking out as the monsoon rain pours down into the blue swimming pool below and into this dirty pond further ahead.  The pool has kids taking swimming lessons and the pond has people washing clothes on the edges and some even swimming in it. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=327&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The new special relationship</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/the-new-special-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron last week completed a two-day trip to India along with half his cabinet. I spent some time reading about the trip both in the British and Indian media and for once I sort of understood what both sides were talking about. While on the face of it there hasn&#8217;t been much visible output [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=322&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting in the sun</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/sitting-in-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on a sunny Crete beach some days ago all sorts of thoughts were going through my head.  It was probably because I was trying to read three books and two magazines simultaneously and failing miserably. I was thinking about how my dreams in the night were a strange concoction of the various readings. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=320&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who should I support in the World Cup ?</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/who-should-i-support-in-the-world-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FT publishes a weekly Dear Economist column, where the reader&#8217;s burning questions from relationships to politics are answered using the tools of Adam Smith. Questions are answered by Tim Harford and I look forward all week to the witty questions and even better answers. I thought my burning question from the last post needed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=315&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Game</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started to blog I don&#8217;t think I ever imagined that one day I will be writing about football. But at that time I also thought that I wont get a month of writing and so it goes. The World cup kicked off today and to me this world cup should be no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=313&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish delight</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/turkish-delight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always admired politicians for their multi faceted skills. I always wonder how are they able to speak sense on any topic under the sun for however long they are allowed to speak.  But one thing that I don&#8217;t see too many politicians do is to make connections. They sometimes make connections when it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=309&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Son of a preacher man</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/son-of-a-preacher-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 23:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming back from a meeting at work I found my colleagues huddled around one of the televisions. It was Gordon Brown making his speech that he will leave resign soon. He looked tired and drained out and didn&#8217;t seem too pleased that his political career was coming to an end. From the TV debates a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=305&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A week in politics</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/300/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year ago in an unguarded moment I could have been caught saying that the British media didn&#8217;t have anything interesting to say. But all that has changed now and the knives are out. The media are pursuing their favourites, or in some cases even changing their favourites (Sun changing to Tories from New Labour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=300&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote hangover</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/vote-hangover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something about a good election that gets me going. I love elections in so many different ways and in another life I want to be following elections around the world. Among the many ways to understand a country the best one is sit through an election process. I ofcourse assume that the country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=297&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Class war</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in London the Maoist insurgency in India seems very removed. There are no protests outside India House and I don&#8217;t have to come up with debating points against my Pakistani friends. But then even when I was in Delhi the insurgency seemed really far away. I have never really travelled in these areas and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=291&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Krishna goes to China</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/krishna-goes-to-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of the post sounds like a Tintin comic. Of a big eyed kid making his way into the exotic far east and winging his way successfully through adversity and solving the mystery. As cute that sounds, China is still this exotic east to Indian policy makers. Since the war in the 1960s they&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=287&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Way</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist some issues back talked about the information overload. While it talked more about how the information is generated and that it is now coming in many times more than what was even considered imaginable some years back , it is also getting processed many times faster. I am reading that and thinking where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=285&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The weather man</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/the-weather-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, BBC made this very poignant announcement that they will not be doing seasonal weather forecasts anymore. So no more barbeque summer and &#8216;mild winter&#8217; forecasts. I have never followed the seasonal forecasts and so the announcement is not going to affect me much. But it does serves as a reminder to me on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=282&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is Holi today and I miss being in Delhi around this time. I miss it for a lot of reasons and as I am getting older it is all becoming a distant memory. So before I forget it all, I want to put it down. This is a mixed/confused account from my childhood and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=278&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lets Talk</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/lets-talk-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waking up to a rainy London morning sometimes makes me feel oddly content. Looking out into the grey sky with a big mug of tea I feel at peace and totally incapable of any verbal communication. If I have to talk now I feel I will have to summon all my energy to string words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=193&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Its only love</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/its-only-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I first became conscious of V day in my early teens when someone told me to setup a shop selling red roses outside a girl&#8217;s college. He told me that men pay ridiculous amounts for ridiculously bad roses and then sometimes when they don&#8217;t get to give it they even give it back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=187&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Downwind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was watching this documentary on TV about the internet revolution. The documentary seemed dated and had nothing &#8216;revolutionary&#8217; to talk about. But it got me thinking on the amount of content on the internet in all shapes and forms. There is so much content out there that the mind boggles and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=184&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Midnight express</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/midnight-express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many nights ago I was jetlagged and I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn&#8217;t seem to go back to sleep. As is the case my mind started to run and the conversations, events and people over the last few days started to run through my mind. This went for some time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=178&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sonar Bangla</title>
		<link>http://deepan.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/sonar-bangla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the time I spent in Delhi I spend as much time reading newspapers trying to understand if they are focusing more on international affairs. I also tried to watch news on television but I always found myself switching to BBC World News ! The feeling I always get is that while most Indians I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21275&amp;post=175&amp;subd=deepan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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