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		<title>Apple iPad and ebook pricing &#8211; disappointing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple recently announced another great design achivement with their launch of iPad. I clearly am a fan of Apple&#8217;s design skills. I am also impressed at the way Apple has ramped up their Supply Chain &#8211; recently a global study &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=260">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Globalisation &#8211; is it really a new concept? And if not what should we learn from the past?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just about to finish reading a rather interesting book about the history of Samurai (The Religion of the Samurai &#8211; A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya.) It talks about how &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=254">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in Career Management from UpMo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this website called UpMo that helps develop a road map for managing ones career and tells how to get there. <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=252">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reservation and the real problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story about the reservation saga continues in India. I am sure this will also whimper down like the Mandal Commission protest in 1991. The problem is that there is a problem in India &#8211; and we are no where &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=246">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A great interview.</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=245</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 13:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in less than two decades India is having the great reservation debate. While no one questions the merits of the need to solve problems faced by the underprivileged in India, I personally do question the case &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=245">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comment Spam</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=244</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 21:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am again hit by comment spam &#8211; so I am closing all comments for the time being. I am sure you will be able to find my email if you have to contact me]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Shakti &#8211; Left me wanting more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday night I attended concert by Shakti at the Basel Stadt Casino &#8211; with John McLaughlin (guitar), Zakir Hussain (tabla), U. Srinivas (mandolin), Selvaganesh (mridangam, ghata and kanjira) and Shankar Mahadevan (vocals). It was a very good fusion music evening. &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=243">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bright idea offers hope for drinking water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiss researchers have developed a biosensor that lights up when it detects arsenic, and have successfully tested it in drinking water in Vietnam. The award-winning breakthrough could improve the lives of millions worldwide who face serious health problems caused by &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=242">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fasnacht Diary from Basel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick from Basel who is an active Fasnachter this year has written a diary about his experience. I found it very good read &#8211; especially as it gave insights to the fun that Fasnachters themselves have. I was lucky myself &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=241">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forts of Maharashtra &#8211; aerial views</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indu has posted some beautiful pictures of forts from Maharashtra. Its very rare to get to see such beautiful aerial pictures from India. I have never been to any of these forts though &#8211; yet! More here]]></description>
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		<title>The growing influence of English as a foreign language</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(and the reduced influence of English as a native language) The British Council has come up with an interesting report on the future of English. Here is the list of major languages used around the world today. No surprises for &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=238">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The coming of internalised Superpowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China and India are the most talked about emerging economies of the world today. China is already the second largest economy in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) and India is close to edging out Japan to be number three. &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=237">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Asha for Education &#8211; Photo Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=236</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently two students from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich visited all the Asha Zurich projects in India and documented the work using photographs. Few exhibitions are being planned across Switzerland of these photographs. More details are here (in German.)]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the day!</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=235</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt]]></description>
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		<title>Getting up early!</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=234</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Pavlina has written a very good article on getting up early. He says: &#8230;&#8230;The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=234">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In pictures: Papua&#8217;s &#8216;lost world&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=233</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: While still quite an interesting find, the whole thing was hyped up. It seems this place was found quite a long time back by some other scientists and now the team was just revisiting the same place. I wonder &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=233">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nach Baliye</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pramod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Nach Baliye was quite a great evening. I enjoyed it every bit &#8211; and from the way crowd was swaying to DJ Chilli&#8217;s beats &#8211; I am quite sure they too did. And then I learned some new skills &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=225">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Very interesting website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this website by a guy based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I felt this is very well done.]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=231">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Children Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Reach</title>
		<link>http://www.pramod.ch/?p=230</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest State of the World&#8217;s Children report by UNICEF has been released. Below is the press release from last month. (You can find previous years&#8217; reports at here.) Abused and Neglected, Millions of Children Have Become Virtually Invisible LONDON, 14 December &#8230; <a href="http://www.pramod.ch/?p=230">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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