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      <title><![CDATA[Beware of thy neighbour]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:30:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The neighbourhood watch is bringing in strange news. The Army reports that in July, the Chinese carpet-bombed Indian soil with tinned food. A mistake, apparently - no one really knows where the border is supposed to be. And meanwhile, on our other border, the Pakistanis are in the throes of a change of guard that&#39;s as quaintly archaic as the one at Buckingham Palace.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[The neighbourhood watch is bringing in strange news. The Army reports that in July, the Chinese carpet-bombed Indian soil with tinned food. A mistake, apparently - no one really knows where the border is supposed to be. And meanwhile, on our other border, the Pakistanis are in the throes of a change of guard that's as quaintly archaic as the one at Buckingham Palace.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[On his own terms]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:30:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite his huge popularity and iron grip over Andhra Pradesh, Y.S.R. Reddy was probably not known that well beyond the confines of his own state. But the man, who defied skeptics and the dares of anti-incumbency to deliver 33 Lok Sabha seats in this election, may have ironically preferred it that way. It&#39;s this that made YSR an unusual politician for his times. Though sudden, violent death almost always gives birth to treacly and over-sympathetic obituaries, he was important for what he represented.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Despite his huge popularity and iron grip over Andhra Pradesh, Y.S.R. Reddy was probably not known that well beyond the confines of his own state. But the man, who defied skeptics and the dares of anti-incumbency to deliver 33 Lok Sabha seats in this election, may have ironically preferred it that way. It's this that made YSR an unusual politician for his times. Though sudden, violent death almost always gives birth to treacly and over-sympathetic obituaries, he was important for what he represented.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strike hard, tread softly]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:30:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[At a time when the US is mulling increasing the boots on the ground by sending additional troops to Afghanistan - and Gordon Brown is urging a restive Britain to stay the course - despite plummeting support back home, a Nato air strike in Afghanistan&#39;s Kunduz province has killed scores of civilians.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[At a time when the US is mulling increasing the boots on the ground by sending additional troops to Afghanistan - and Gordon Brown is urging a restive Britain to stay the course - despite plummeting support back home, a Nato air strike in Afghanistan's Kunduz province has killed scores of civilians.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Under a nuclear cloud]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Given the public slanging match between India&#39;s top scientists over the success of Pokhran II, the confusion itself calls for keeping our options open for future nuclear testing. In fact, quick and firm responses from the prime minister and a former president have only bolstered the credentials of this controversy, with various other voices joining the polemics. Even the foreign media is widely discussing, if not gloating, over the recent volley of remarks.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Given the public slanging match between India's top scientists over the success of Pokhran II, the confusion itself calls for keeping our options open for future nuclear testing. In fact, quick and firm responses from the prime minister and a former president have only bolstered the credentials of this controversy, with various other voices joining the polemics. Even the foreign media is widely discussing, if not gloating, over the recent volley of remarks.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Man for all reasons]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Adecade ago when Sharad Pawar was quitting the Congress over Sonia Gandhi&#39;s foreign origin issue, he told a group of journalists, &quot;In the Congress party, there is no place for genuine mass leaders. There is only the high command and the loyal followers.&quot;]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Adecade ago when Sharad Pawar was quitting the Congress over Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin issue, he told a group of journalists, "In the Congress party, there is no place for genuine mass leaders. There is only the high command and the loyal followers."]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Feel the Force?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Now that Force India has secured a podium finish in the Belgian Grand Prix, isn&#39;t it about time we had an Indian driver in the hot seat? With rumours that Ferrari may be eyeing Force India&#39;s Giancarlo Fisichella, Vijay Mallya and Co. might want to keep a replacement ready, so why not an Indian driver? And where better to scout for talent than saddi Dilli?]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Now that Force India has secured a podium finish in the Belgian Grand Prix, isn't it about time we had an Indian driver in the hot seat? With rumours that Ferrari may be eyeing Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella, Vijay Mallya and Co. might want to keep a replacement ready, so why not an Indian driver? And where better to scout for talent than saddi Dilli?]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[The joke's on us]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There&#39;s a lot in the Tintin comics to give offence. George Remi&#39;s caricatures are as much about peoples as about the individuals the intrepid Belgian reporter meets in his adventures across continents. They&#39;re all there: the goose-stepping Kraut, the maharaja and the naked fakir, the Chinese opium smuggler, the marauding Bedouin, the Soviet apparatchik, the Japanese warlord, the tin-pot South American dictator, the rapacious Greek tycoon.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[There's a lot in the Tintin comics to give offence. George Remi's caricatures are as much about peoples as about the individuals the intrepid Belgian reporter meets in his adventures across continents. They're all there: the goose-stepping Kraut, the maharaja and the naked fakir, the Chinese opium smuggler, the marauding Bedouin, the Soviet apparatchik, the Japanese warlord, the tin-pot South American dictator, the rapacious Greek tycoon.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[He promised, he delivered]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Controversy was Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy&#39;s constant companion in politics - as one who represented violence-prone Cuddapah in Parliament, and the legislative Assembly since the late 1970s. But electoral triumphs buttressed by populist schemes transformed it all for the Andhra CM. In his death, the Congress has lost its strongest regional face in recent memory.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Controversy was Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's constant companion in politics - as one who represented violence-prone Cuddapah in Parliament, and the legislative Assembly since the late 1970s. But electoral triumphs buttressed by populist schemes transformed it all for the Andhra CM. In his death, the Congress has lost its strongest regional face in recent memory.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Differential calculus]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:30:04 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has once again set the cat among the pigeons - this time over his advocacy of a common, uniform science and mathematics curriculum in schools and with doing away with the multiplicity of school boards in the country. Though there have been some initial reactions from the officials attending the meeting in which Sibal proposed this, I think the issue deserves closer scrutiny.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has once again set the cat among the pigeons - this time over his advocacy of a common, uniform science and mathematics curriculum in schools and with doing away with the multiplicity of school boards in the country. Though there have been some initial reactions from the officials attending the meeting in which Sibal proposed this, I think the issue deserves closer scrutiny.]]></media:text>
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      <title><![CDATA[SOS to the RSS]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:30:04 +0530</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The dust hasn&#39;t yet settled on the crisis in the BJP, but it finally seems to be limping towards a resolution. The intense faction fighting, however, is an &#39;inner-party problem&#39;. As for the public, two things have become abundantly clear. First, not many people will, in the near future, buy the protestations that the BJP is its own master and its bond with the RSS is fraternal, cemented by a shared worldview. It is now beyond doubt that the RSS controls the BJP and that the party is incapable of handling its affairs without its hands being firmly held, especially in unpropitious circumstances.]]></description>
      <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[The dust hasn't yet settled on the crisis in the BJP, but it finally seems to be limping towards a resolution. The intense faction fighting, however, is an 'inner-party problem'. As for the public, two things have become abundantly clear. First, not many people will, in the near future, buy the protestations that the BJP is its own master and its bond with the RSS is fraternal, cemented by a shared worldview. It is now beyond doubt that the RSS controls the BJP and that the party is incapable of handling its affairs without its hands being firmly held, especially in unpropitious circumstances.]]></media:text>
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