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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 60 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=795&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contrarian views on the leadership challenge that is affecting India’s anti-corruption debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Basler Fasnacht 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<title>1983 reasons why we should watch the cricket world cup finals,  just for the sheer joy of sports</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2011/04/01/1983-reasons-why-we-should-watch-the-cricket-world-cup-finals-just-for-the-sheer-joy-of-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very few moments in sports, capture the pure joy of any spectator event, as this goal by Diego Maradona in the 1986 world cup does. Voted the goal of the century, this is one sporting moment that anybody who has never played football, or never watched the game, or has no clue about Argentina, England, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=725&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>﻿﻿Why an Indian win in the cricket world cup 2011, would prevent China taking over the ICC in 2027</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2011/02/11/%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bfwhy-an-indian-win-in-the-cricket-world-cup-2011-would-prevent-china-taking-over-the-icc-in-2027/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a rapidly typed-out, tongue-in-cheek, meant to be taken lightly, collection of thoughts on the up coming cricket world cup in India. (I am not using the ICC or sponsor’s name share, as they don’t pay me to advertise their name on my blog! For the record I actually don’t know if it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=702&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Less words, and more images for a change&#8230;:)</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2011/02/07/less-words-and-more-images-for-a-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently caught the DSLR fever and I bought a new camera: Canon EOS 60 D. I have to admit it is a toy capable of many wonderful things, but I barely know 1% of it. But it  is a wonderful pursuit to study, click, experiment, and share  these pictures.  It is certainly keeping me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=638&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging year 2010 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That&#8217;s about 9 full 747s. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=633&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons for “V d Tweeple” &amp; “We the people” on forging India ahead</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2010/11/30/lessons-for-%e2%80%9cv-d-tweeple%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9cwe-the-people%e2%80%9d-on-forging-india-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿ “Kuch Kar Guzarne ko khoon chala, koon chala” (The blood stirred to do something), is an immensely inspirational song from the Hindi film “Rang De Basanti”. Over the last few weeks, my blood has been boiling, rather than stir, at an immense sense of shame over being a mute spectator to India’s cancerous growth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=627&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are India’s biggest challenges in our quest to become a vibrant, rich, progressive, and powerful nation?</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2010/11/27/what-are-india%e2%80%99s-biggest-challenges-in-our-quest-to-become-a-vibrant-rich-progressive-and-powerful-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿There have been multiple inspirations to study in detail, where India stands in the world, and which direction it should head in. At some level you could say, it is an enduring fascination throughout my life. Self –assessment, benchmarking with peers, and identification of improvement areas is something I am obsessed with doing for myself. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=599&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The winter writing season begins&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2010/11/19/the-winter-writing-season-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big hello to regular readers and those who stumbled on this blog by chance! Many thanks to all of you who have read, commented, and shared your views on my blog all these days. And some old faithful who checked in from time to time, noticed I haven’t written anything at all for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=591&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A good year spent in the land of cheese and chocolates!</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2010/05/02/a-good-year-spent-in-the-land-of-cheese-and-chocolates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I completed a year’s stay in the land of Alps, cheese and chocolates &#8211; Switzerland!           It’s been the longest I have stayed away from India, even though I have done crazy relocations to different parts of the world earlier. I have no clue where life will take me next, if I do move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=439&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The singing sensation, The ultimate bathroom singing list &amp; The band&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The singing sensation&#8230; Sometime in the very hectic last two weeks, I did something I haven’t done for ages…sing out aloud! Music is a big part of my life, like it is for any normal person and for a brief phase of my life, singing away to glory was a potential career option. I sang [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=411&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nature&#8217;s fury unleashed&#8230;all we can do is pray!</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2010/04/18/natures-fury-unleashed-all-we-can-do-is-pray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are in Europe, you cannot miss following the new of the Volcano eruption in Iceland and its impact on air travel due to the massive smoke generated. Really sad to see thousands of passengers stranded at airports due to a complete freeze of flights, and billions lost in revenues to airlines that are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=387&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing around with words, images &amp; themes…</title>
		<link>http://vasusworld.com/2010/04/15/playing-around-with-words-images-themes%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This was first written on April 15, 2010 based on that day&#8217;s blog template. I intend to keep updating this post as and when I make changes to my template, to trace the journey of my blog design!) As people who visit this part of the virtual world would have noticed, this blog has seen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vasusworld.com&amp;blog=10273810&amp;post=378&amp;subd=vasusworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Chennai to Chelsea, Anaivarukkum iniya puthaandu vazhthukkal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vasudevan Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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