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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 33 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=360&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The year gone by . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another year passes by, as it always does, in rapid succession. Looking back from the events that have formed the crux of the previous year, it has been a year of mixed emotions, of trials and tribulations, of waxes and wanes, crests and troughs; and a myriad of experiences. January &#8211; [to March] 2011 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=358&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Poopist Chronicles :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know how creativity is fed sometimes by sheer frustration. Here is one more example I present from my experience to substantiate the previous statement. The list that follows is a compilation of all the negative energies, the formidable frustrations, the amiable curses, the rhetorical cusses of the three of us – Tanmay, Rohit and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=349&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Devo(id)tion, Amen!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hindustan &#8211; The land of the Hindus. A name referred to India even today in some languages. Great name. Strong name actually, for a country that has openly declared itself as a secular and socialist republic in its constitution. For a religion that almost 80% of India’s populace follows, Hinduism has well stood the test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=343&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Outcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He stared at the vast expanse of the ocean, mulling over the time they had spent together. There had been memories, memories that were full of hope, exhiliration, intensity and soul. Memories that would make him the person he would be. Memories of events that he thought would never happen. Memories that would stick with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=341&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Customers and Customer &#8216;Cares&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have already spoken about the pitiable state of today&#8217;s consumer in one of my previous posts &#8216;Confusemerism&#8216;. This post is in continuation to that, to showcase the apathetic treatment that is meted out to customers today. The text that follows below is the mail I sent out to the customer care of the DTH [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=334&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,800 times in 2010. That&#8217;s about 7 full 747s. &#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=331&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musings from a cubicle . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when your conscious mind is doing something mechanical and your subconscious is left completely jobless? The result is the waking up of the many rusted neurons and getting them to work, as follows, resulting in the understanding of the seemingly simple things in life – all of this, from a cubicle! Well; Abhishek [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=324&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enthiran &#8211; The Invincible!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object” - The Joker in “The Dark Knight” This best describes what happens when Rajni and Shankar come together. Rajni, the unstoppable force that he is, going strong at 60. Shankar, the immovable object, sticks to his style of filmmaking, and continuously reinvents himself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=314&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Indian dream &#8230; a Mirage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[15th August, 1947 “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” That was the day of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashwin35007.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4288545&amp;post=300&amp;subd=ashwin35007&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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