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		<title>Fault Lines - A brilliant Book from Rajan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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FAULT LINES - Raghuram G. Rajan
I am yet to come across someone who hasn’t lost something in the recent financial crisis and the recession that followed it. Those affected and many others are still wondering as to what really happend and why we did not see it coming. There are several articles, theories, reports and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grease is sticky!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fiscal deficit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, this Greece is sticky too. And this troublesome glue could entangle India too.
Ancient Greece is the cradle of western civilisation. The land of Plato, Pythagoras, Homer, Aristotle, Socrates and many other famous souls, Greece, the land of Olympics, is today in great trouble.  With the largest maritime fleet in the world and the queen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A BETTER INDIA  -  A BETTER WORLD - A Review</title>
		<link>http://vvranganathan.com/?p=66</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Infosys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[N R Narayana Murthy]]></category>

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This book from an iconic entrepreneur, Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy (NRN), is as simple and straightforward as I have known him to be.  This book is lucid, powerful, stimulating and full of candid wisdom. There is honesty in his understandable anxiety to convey his ideas to young minds with a firm zeal that they will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense of it after all</title>
		<link>http://vvranganathan.com/?p=65</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Imagining India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[insurgencies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nandan Nilekani]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nandan Nilenkani  posted his first entry on his blog “ Making Sense of it all”  on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 at 11:01 pm and it is filed under About the book – Imagining India.
Of the 34 Responses to &#8220;Making sense of it all&#8221;, his first blog on the book, by a conspiracy of happy accidents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger, tiger, burning bright &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly an year ago, one of India’s then celebrated entrepreneurs, made a confession that his entrepreneurial journey was indeed “&#8230; like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten”.  His admission on 7th January 2009 that he committed a series of gigantic frauds (more than a billion dollar) shook India and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Price of Gold right? Or is the Oil price wrong?</title>
		<link>http://vvranganathan.com/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Dollar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gold oil and dollar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can Gold prices reach $ 1200 per ounce? Will Oil touch $200 a barrel? These were questions I had put forward in an article “Oh! My God “published on 22 August 2008.   The GOD I refer to is Gold, Oil and Dollar. The less we speak about the last one, the better.
Gold was then at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airline Pilots Glorified drivers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Air India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Captain Gopinath]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cargo Carriers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chennai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indigo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jet Airways]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labour Commissioner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[low cost carriers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Naresh Goyal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Passenger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pilots]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trade Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US Airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is a bit poignant that I have to write about airlines on 9/11 when ground zero is in mourning. Barely some five months ago,  Rajya Sabha MP P V Abdul Wahab from Kerala was accused of calling the pilot of an Air India aircraft a &#8216;glorified driver&#8217;. What followed was such a hue and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal Profligacy – Is it a punishable act?</title>
		<link>http://vvranganathan.com/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[CAG]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eonomic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fiscal deficit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FRMB Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[minsiters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[profligacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[prudence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fiscal deficit in India is a growing monster that can gobble up our peace and put our national security at serious risk. There is a national debate on this. There are men on the fringes including many workers who have no clue about it. It nevertheless affects their life. And when it gets out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Average Indian !!</title>
		<link>http://vvranganathan.com/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 16:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Average Indian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cricket]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Voting Machine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[incredible india]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian Voter]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politician]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[polling booths]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[T.M.Mahaliga Iyer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is not an amusing thought and I reflect on this through the wisdom and sagacity of my once upon a time illustrious neighbour. In the mid sixties and at an impressionable age, I was fortunate to have the Late T.M.Mahalinga Iyer (TMM) as our neighbour. TMM was a mischievously sarcastic scholar who could handle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bluff the People.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V V Ranganathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[bluff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clinton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[enron]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hitler]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nixon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sharon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[singh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If governance is about lies, white lies and statistics, then our political leadership (glibly referred to as government) have a right to bluff the people. But Mr.Jarnail Singh, a Sikh journalist, couldn’t take this bluff anymore and so he responded with his shoes.
Bernard Madoff bluffed his way through with some of the most clever people [...]]]></description>
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