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		<title>Frankfurt Airport Incident &#8211; Ignorant / Insensitive / Rude Or Racist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently traveled to the US and back to India. On my way to San Francisco I had a connecting flight at Frankfurt, Germany. The following is an experience at Frankfurt that I can&#8217;t quite categorize. Is it ignorance / insensitivity / rudeness / racism or maybe even an over reaction on my part? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voter Apathy Or Election Commission Incompetence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 09:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harshad Oak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At just 40%, Pune saw it&#8217;s worst ever voter turnout for the Loksabha elections. Mumbai was slightly better at 44%. The dismal voter turnout numbers have shocked most of educated India. Political leaders are smirking on TV saying things like &#8220;You blame us politicians for not caring about the country, but even the ordinary citizen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the government have the right to refuse security to an Indian citizen or business?</title>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2009/03/cricket/does-the-government-have-the-right-to-refuse-security-to-an-indian-citizen-or-business.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harshad Oak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Premier League security fiasco had me wondering if it is within the Indian constitution for a government to refuse security to a legal Indian citizen or enterprise. I am no constitution expert, but I would expect providing security of life and property to it&#8217;s citizens to be one of the founding principles of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terror Attacks &#8211; Why Ahmedabad? Why Bangalore? Why India?</title>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2008/07/society/terror-attacks-why-ahmedabad-why-bangalore-why-india.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harshad Oak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India has again seen a painful chapter of bombings. Over 20 bombs targeted the Indian cities of Bangalore and Ahmadabad and killed 10s of innocent civilians and injured 100s. While I feel very sad and rattled by the developments, I also fail to make sense of them. I only have questions for the militants on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Challengers Is Obvious Surrogate Advertising For Alcohol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good to know that the Health Minister has challenged the name of the Bangalore Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team, &#8220;Royal Challengers&#8221;. It&#8217;s however sad that it takes the Health Minister of the country to speak up before the authorities looked at such an obvious and blatant form of surrogate advertising for liquor brand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring Social Unrest &#8211; Revolutionary new OakTyre scale shows the true impact of protests</title>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2007/10/pune-city/measuring-social-unrest-revolutionary-new-oaktyre-scale-shows-the-true-impact-of-protests.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harshadoak.com/2007/10/pune-city/measuring-social-unrest-revolutionary-new-oaktyre-scale-shows-the-true-impact-of-protests.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harshad Oak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday we read stories about protests in the country where buses are burnt, trains are stopped, public and private property is damaged and so on. However one often feels that the creators of these protests do not get due credit for their work. The government releases figures about the property damages in rupees. However these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pune Corporation egovpmc.com becomes PuneCorporation.org</title>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2007/08/pune-city/pune-corporation-egovpmccom-becomes-punecorporationorg.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harshadoak.com/2007/08/pune-city/pune-corporation-egovpmccom-becomes-punecorporationorg.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harshad Oak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For reasons only known to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the PMC has now changed the official website from http://www.egovpmc.com to http://www.punecorporation.org and killed egovpmc.com. PuneCorporation.org is definitely a better name than egovpmc, but why kill the established egovpmc.com? They could have just redirected to the new site. PMC also hasn&#8217;t shown the sense to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of grabbing public spaces</title>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2007/05/pune-city/the-art-of-grabbing-public-spaces.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harshadoak.com/2007/05/pune-city/the-art-of-grabbing-public-spaces.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 09:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harshad Oak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article about improper use of parking spaces and builders tricking the city administration by just converting public parking into private parking spaces. &#8212; As per construction rules in cities, all buildings need a certain parking capacity to be approved by the corporation. Even these standards seem inadequate to handle the traffic mess in cities like [...]]]></description>
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