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		<title>The infosys hike – story of a corporate tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read in the papers today about the unfortunate appraisal cycle of over a lakh employees of infosys. After a years worth of hard and dedicated labor, they were greeted with a rude surprise &#8211; no merit increases this year. Justified wages for labor has been one of the fundamental tenets of the free world since [...]


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		<title>Bangalore RTO and the ‘smart’ card drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bought a car 5 months back and on-time of delivery all I got was a challan from the RTO that fees have been paid to secure registration of the vehicle. Initially they told me that it would take 2 months to &#8220;make&#8221; the smart card. Well the wait has been ON for many months with [...]


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		<title>The great Indian paper saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt of a conversation I had with a &#8216;pahadi&#8217; friend of mine on a lazy Sunday afternoon&#8230;. &#8220;Dear friend unlike up in the mountains of India here down in the plateaus and plains we have a very different way of life&#8230;.&#8221; I said making my friend look perplexed at the &#8216;mystery&#8217; I was about to [...]


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		<title>Kerala – The rum capital of asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people might not know this interesting factoid; but the small southern state of kerala in India has the highest per capita consumption of rum in asia. Every Onam the citizens of this state consume run to the tune of 100&#8242;s of crores of rupees. The questionable practice however is that in kerala retail sale [...]


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		<title>Happy Independence day the 64th.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well like I always to on every independence day; introspect. Today after an hours of news media assault on a &#8216;bribe bandh&#8217; campaign. I was forced to think of why and when a middle class person like me would be forced to pay a bribe. In most cases it would be to gain &#8216;access&#8217; to [...]


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		<title>Karnataka’s political circus a common mans view</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching the political drama unfolding in Karnataka for the past few days and in the midst of all the analysis and counter-analysis happening on 24&#215;7 news channels I took a moment to step out of the frame and look at it from the &#8216;whats in it for me as a common man&#8217; angle&#8230; [...]


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		<title>Terror in the days of pansy politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today 13th July 2011 mumbai succumbed to another terror strike in broad daylight. Lives lost, many injured. Today was cause for us to reflect on what has changed since 26/11. The govt went on the defensive yet again. We never pursued the perpetrators of 26/11 to a definitive closure. We played by the book. What [...]


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		<title>Obscene BWSSB and BESCOM rates Bangalore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague today showed me the price break up of a &#8220;luxury apartment&#8221; on bannerghatta road Bangalore. I was shocked to see a cost item saying BESCOM and BWSSB charges as 4.8 lakhs !!!! This is a property that was launched 4 years back still in the doldrums. A quick arithmetic is that if there [...]


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		<title>The price of etiquette in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is this experiment that I do on a periodic basis; it consists of me holding the door for a person (lady or guy) who is a stranger and then watching what their reaction is to it. Well anywhere else in the world it wouldn&#8217;t be much of an experiment because they would enter/exit, thank [...]


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		<title>Politics offset the benefits of research.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent saga of fuel price hikes by the UPA government left me wondering how the fuel price would offset my personal budget&#8230;. A tangential thought occurred to me this morning; over the years automotive manufacturers have pumped in millions of dollars into engine research to make engines that are more fuel efficient. This is [...]


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