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		<title>Musings: Dear Leader Mayawati</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/musings-dear-leader-mayawati/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leader of an opposition party was arrested this month for criticizing the rather ridiculous compensations that the government and its headstrong leader give rape victims.  The charge could be equated to &#8216;inflammatory public speaking&#8217;, which is hardly surprising in a region where a massive park is underconstruction, filled with statues of the aforementioned government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=260&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digest: Down The Chrome Bricked Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9 months ago Google published their new browser, Google Chrome which was supposed to be a minimalist browser that was very quick. It was great competition in the browser market, and it was a great way to crawl up Microsoft&#8217;s skin. They now have 30 million people regularly using Google Chrome, which is a pretty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=259&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digest: India&#8217;s Red Schism</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/digest-indias-red-schism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India is one of the rare nations to have a tradition of democratically-elected regional Communist governments.  The state of West Bengal has been ruled by the Marxists and their allies for over 30 years (BBC, 2009), the longest period that a Communist party has held power via democratic means.  Communism is peacefully manifested in both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=253&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musings: On the fate of the German model</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/musings-on-the-fate-of-the-german-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 20:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post-War Germany was a fascinating place.  While East German avant-garde artists were putting together synthesizers from old electronics and creating fashion expositions out of anything and everything available (brilliantly displayed in the up-and-coming film Comrade Couture), West Germany was radically progressing in its own manner.  Indeed, the East German avant-garde movement can be seen as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=247&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arts &amp; Recommendations</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/arts-recommendations-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mahratta&#8217;s Picks
Music for the Chapel Royal
2009 marks the anniversary of the death of George Frederic Handel, the first true cosmopolitan composer of the Western tradition.  Handel&#8217;s name is synonymous with his brilliant Baroque compositions ranging from oratarios to operas to concerti.  However, the most enduring and popular (by far) of his works is the magnificent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=235&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technologia: Palm Pre</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/technologia-palm-pretty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>certeis</dc:creator>
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These days when talking about different kinds of cellphones one cannot ignore the ever popular iPhone from Apple. It revolutionized cell phones at the time and we can see the waves of influence in the current generations of phones trying to live up to the iPhone. HTC, Samsung and even RIM have been trying to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=202&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musings: Perspectives on Zimbabwe&#8217;s Hitler</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/musings-perspectives-on-zimbabwes-hitler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hitler had only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources&#8230;If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.” It is difficult to believe that any modern politician would make such a statement.  To make a proud personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=214&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feature: Tea, Tigers, and the Sacred Island</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/feature-tea-tigers-and-the-sacred-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mahratta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to picture Barack Obama or Nicholas Sarkozy chatting with Osama bin Laden over a cup of tea.  However, heads of state and foreign ambassadors have routinely met and discussed with the leaders of a decades-old terrorist outfit responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.  Rarely has the world witnessed an enigma like the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=205&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arts: Recommendations</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/arts-recommendations-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mahratta&#8217;s Picks
Kraftwerk
For too long, the culture of the German Democratic Republic has been associated with monolithic Stalinist edifices and neo-Prussian social discipline &#8211; a distorted view of a dynamic society.  One of the rare glimpses available into this lost culture is gained through the music of one of pop culture&#8217;s most innovative and truly brilliant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=191&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digest &#8211; Commerce: the Shogun fights deflation</title>
		<link>http://bodhiflower.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/digest-commerce-the-shogun-fights-deflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mahratta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
With the latest announcement of an increase in allotted funds, the Aso government has pledged over 500 billion dollars to the package as an effort to rescue Japan&#8217;s ailing economy (BBC 2008).  The Nikkei has plunged over the past few months, tipping the Japanese economy into a period of recession, and does not seem to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bodhiflower.wordpress.com&blog=3578917&post=183&subd=bodhiflower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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