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		<title>The Daughter of Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The slaying of Benazir comes across as a major blow to the millions of people in the sub-continent who have grown sentimentally attached to the four most charismatic and illustrious families in South Asia. The Nehru-Gandhi family, the Bhutto family, the Sheikh Muzib-ur-Rehman and the Kumaratunga- Bhandaranaike family are there, right in the Top bracket, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/12/28/the-daughter-of-destiny/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Sauce bhi kabhi Tamatar thee !!&#8217; -The Balaji Telefilms story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very few people know this. Balaji Telefilms doesn’t have a scipt writer. They have a computer program that writes(generates) the script.
This is how they do it.
They feed the computer a list of standard entities consisting of the below:

Characters
husband(1 numbers),
wife(1 numbers),
Mistress/souten(1 numbers),
kids(3 numbers),
wives of kids(2 numbers),
Kids of kids(4 numbers),
Kid engaged to shady lady(1 numbers)
Mom-in-law(1 numbers)
Grandmother(1 numbers)
Father-in-law(picture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/10/19/sauce-bhi-kabhi-tamatar-thee-the-balaji-telefilms-story/</link>
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		<title>Coked and Pepsied !!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Pepsi and Coke are now being banned in most states and also in schools and offices, the soft drink companies have started selling the colas to farmers. Farmers are using these colas as pesticides and spraying them indiscriminately in their fields, causing greater concern for environmentalists. Over indulgent mothers are now worried that children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/10/18/coked-and-pepsied/</link>
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		<title>On Islamic Fundamentalism &#8211; Taslima Nasrin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is adapted from Taslima Nasrin’s April 28, 1996 speech at Harvard University, sponsored hy the Humanist Chaplaincy.
&#8220;Gradually men will come to realize that a world whose institutions are based upon hatred and injustice is not one most likely to produce happiness&#8230;. We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/10/17/on-islamic-fundamentalism-taslima-nasrin/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Burn The Burqa &#8211; Taslima Nasrin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother used purdah. She wore a burqa with a net cover in front of the face. It reminded me of the meatsafes in my grandmother&#8217;s house. One had a net door made of cloth, the other of metal. But the objective was the same: keeping the meat safe. My mother was put under a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/10/17/lets-burn-the-burqa-taslima-nasrin/</link>
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		<title>Pesticides, colas and other important things that we should really be concerned about – like our own goddamn LIFE !!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was shocked to learn that colas contain pesticides. I was under the impression that they contained rat poison, Baygon spray, and lead from batteries. But my alcoholic father, on his death bed, convinced me that these were the main ingredients in the arrack he drank. So the colas looked a lot milder. Just pesticides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/10/16/pesticides-colas-and-other-important-things-that-we-should-really-be-concerned-about-%e2%80%93-like-our-own-goddamn-life/</link>
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		<title>CK Prahlad Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had no problem accepting this invitation at all.  This is the best thing we can do in India, to respect and also show gratitude, not just to our parents, mother and father, but the teacher who makes us so.  I am so happy that one place at least we remember teachers, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/10/05/ck-prahlad-speech/</link>
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		<title>A  Good Joke about the Development Cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1) Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month.
2) Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.
3) Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.
4) Client is the one who doesn&#8217;t know why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/07/19/a-good-joke-about-the-development-cycle/</link>
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		<title>Khushwant Singh &#8211; the man, the writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Khushwant Singh is many things to many people. More you read about him, hungrier you get. He is the high priest of journalism and can be said to be India&#8217;s best. he is a free thinker and an international celebrity. Khushwant Singh had become a legend and an icon in his lifetime. He is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/07/14/khushwant-singh-the-man-the-writer/</link>
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		<title>The Four Liquid Stages of Life.</title>
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Thanks K Karthik for this forward
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		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/07/12/the-four-liquid-stages-of-life/</link>
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		<title>For aspiring writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wallace Stegner, Francine Prose, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others offer advice to aspiring wordsmiths.
Francine Prose, an acclaimed author and longtime creative writing teacher, opens her essay in the 2006 Fiction issue with a question: &#8220;Can writing be taught?&#8221; As she sees it, some aspects of writing, such as judicious editing of one’s own work, can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/07/11/for-aspiring-writers/</link>
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		<title>Ascot Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a Saturday late afternoon in Ascot and I am at club grounds watching a practice game since League game on this Saturday afternoon is washed out due to rains .
Every time I visit the club, it takes me back to an evening in summer of 2002 .I had veered into the Ascot Racecourse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bangalore360.com/Editorial/2007/07/10/ascot-days/</link>
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