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		<title>Pune Devcon Conference On .Net &#038; Microsoft Tech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Devcon site says that at the event you can -
Explore the issues surrounding programming mobile devices, Windows application                  development, integrated Web solutions, Microsoft Office programming, and            [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Of The Canal Garden, Prabhat Bhandarkar BMCC Road, Pune</title>
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Over the past couple of years, the left bank canal of the River Mutha between the Prabhat, Bhandarkar and Agarkar Road has morphed from pretty much being a dump to now a beautiful garden. The area of about six acres now has lush green lawns, a jogging track and many trees. It&#8217;s like an oasis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock On Has Got It Spot On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing this as I listen to the music of the movie &#8216;Rock On&#8217;. Rock On has got it Spot On. It&#8217;s Hindi rock and not another attempt at English rock. It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s the greatest music ever but it just seems like an important landmark in the journey of rock music in India.
Indians rocking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2008/08/society/rock-on-has-got-it-spot-on.html</link>
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		<title>Terror Attacks - Why Ahmedabad? Why Bangalore? Why India?</title>
		<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 a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2008/07/society/terror-attacks-why-ahmedabad-why-bangalore-why-india.html</link>
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		<title>Live From London Heathrow Airport Terminal 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am on my way back from San Francisco to Pune and have a stop over at London Heathrow. I am writing this live from the &#8216;Internet and Additional Seating&#8217; area at London Heathrow Airport Terminal 3.

I have been through Heathrow a couple of times before and visited London on a business visa a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2008/05/review/live-from-london-heathrow-airport-terminal-3.html</link>
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		<title>How Trees &#038; Birds Grabbed Prime Land In Pune City!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature shows the way to healing the city&#8230;
Like most Indian cities, Pune has crumbled quite rapidly over the past decade and most citizens are convinced that things can only get worse. So thought I would write about a positive development in the Deccan Gymkhana area in Pune. About a project that highlights how things can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2008/05/pune-city/trees-birds-grab-prime-city-land.html</link>
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		<title>Royal Challengers Is Obvious Surrogate Advertising For Alcohol</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.harshadoak.com/2008/04/society/royal-challengers-is-obvious-surrogate-advertising-for-alcohol.html</link>
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		<title>Magical Men Of 21st Century India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Key Selling Point Of The GodMen Is Their Talk About Things That Make No Sense&#8221;
Right from childhood, stories that had their foundation in magic and &#8216;chamatkars&#8217; always appealed to me. I must have watched 10s of combinations of stories like - Ramu&#8217;s son is ill and no doctor is able to cure him; Ramu [...]]]></description>
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