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		<title>Behenji, Aunty, Didi &amp; Amma</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2011/05/15/behenji-aunty-didi-amma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 big states (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu) and one politically strategic state (Delhi) is now ruled by women.  Not to mention the President of India, Pratibha Patil, the leader of the ruling party, Sonia Gandhi, leader of the opposition, Sushma Swaraj.   India is today the perfect poster child for women&#8217;s empowerment. Most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Read &#8211; The Next 100 Years &#8211; George Friedman</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/12/16/just-read-the-next-100-years-george-friedman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finished reading this book almost a month ago, but due to paucity of time almost forgot to write about this book. This book is a look into the next 100 years by George Friedman (no relation to Thomas Friedman of the New York Times).  George Friedman is the chief executive of STRATFOR, a private global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Eat Some, You Eat Some</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/12/03/i-eat-some-you-eat-some/</link>
		<comments>http://philip9876.com/2010/12/03/i-eat-some-you-eat-some/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a daily scam unraveling.  What does this say about the times or the society we live in?  I suppose, we were always corrupt, it was ingrained in our DNA.  Its only now that the skeletons are tumbling out.  Whether its the 2G scam, Adarsh scam, Commonwealth games scam, Kargil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development Wins Over Dynasty</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/11/24/development-wins-over-dynasty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good to see a thumping victory of the JD-BJP combine in Bihar.  After keeping Bihar in the dark ages, Lalu Prasad believed that the people of Bihar wouldnt want to see the development anymore. A win for Congress-RJD would have been a trip back to the stone age for Bihar. Nitish Kumar has got an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s String of Pearls &amp; India&#8217;s Look East</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/11/02/chinas-string-of-pearls-indias-look-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years China has been pursuing its policy of a string of pearls; which meant having naval stations around the Indian subcontinent as a means of encircling India.  The building of a port in the Sri Lankan town of Hambantota, Gwadar in Pakistan, courting the island states of Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius and not to mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scums in Our Neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/08/03/the-scums-in-our-neighborhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can choose our friends, but not our neighbours.  This statement was famously made by our previous Prime Minister, AB Vajpayee. How true.  Given a chance we would like to pack Pakistan and dump them into the sea for being such a pest.  Why not?  Afterall, a country which has terrorism as its national policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incompetence at its best</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/07/28/incompetence-at-its-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iam a strong believer in the theory that the government has no business doing any business.  The government has no business running steel companies, textile mills, condom companies etc.  All that the government has to do is to manage the law and order machinery, keep the country safe and to create laws and an environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will they learn?</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/07/21/when-will-they-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bhopal gas tragedy, the 1984 Sikh riots, the Bombay riots, the Gujarat riots, various corporate and stock market scandals (Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh) are just a few examples where the Indian judicial system as well as successive governments have failed miserably. Today&#8217;s news reports that 5 people involved in the Satyam scam have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Read &#8211; Halliburton’s Army</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/03/03/just-read-halliburton%e2%80%99s-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything about the United State&#8217;s war in Afghanistan and Iraq is well documented.  What is little known is the details that goes into the well oiled war machine of the US Army.  A company by name Halliburton, which in the general sense is known to people as a company that is into oil discovery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mossad&#8217;s killing ways</title>
		<link>http://philip9876.com/2010/02/19/mossads-killing-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good writeup on the assassination of Hamas&#8217; top leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19 at a hotel in Dubai allegedly by 11 members of Israel&#8217;s secret service organisation.  The whole operation by Mossad has many lessons for the Indian government to learn. While dealing with terrorist supporting countries like Pakistan, an aggressive covert assassination [...]]]></description>
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