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	<title>India First-Hand &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>India and Pakistan: War is not the Answer</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/09/20/india-and-pakistan-war-is-not-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/09/20/india-and-pakistan-war-is-not-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time there is a terrorist attack on Indian soil the Indian and Pakistani governments and the people of India go through a very familiar set of rituals.  The Indian side will blame the Pakistani government for aiding these terrorist attacks and for not arresting the leaders of these militant groups who live in Pakistan.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land of the Mythmakers and Their Followers</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/19/land-of-the-mythmakers-and-their-followers/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/19/land-of-the-mythmakers-and-their-followers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is election season in America.  It is the time when the modern day Shamans come out of their spells and talk to their followers about visions, wisdom and knowledge that they came across when they were in the Shamanic state in their cave dwellings.  When the Shaman speaks there is silence in the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rahul Gandhi Rising?</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/16/rahul-gandhi-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/16/rahul-gandhi-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I am up late I turn on the TV and watch the “Tonight Show” hosted by comedian Jay Leno.  My favorite segment of this show is called “Jaywalking”.  Reporters from the Tonight Show approach pedestrians in some of the major American cities and ask them fairly basic questions.  Some of the responses are hilarious.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks Kicks American Media&#8217;s Butt</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/07/27/wikileaks-kicks-american-medias-butt/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/07/27/wikileaks-kicks-american-medias-butt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who are in the software industry have been in situations where we release a product to the customer only to find that the customer has found some issues that requires another full release or a patch release.  In such situations one of the first questions that management wants answered is why we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India’s Rich History: Myth vs. Reality</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/07/07/india%e2%80%99s-rich-history-myth-vs-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/07/07/india%e2%80%99s-rich-history-myth-vs-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We in India know that we have a great history.  I am not sure how we know this for a fact but we know.  The Chinese hold a very similar opinion.  Maybe the concept of the great past is something that our forefathers passed on to us as we pass on to our future generations.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failed States Index 2010: United States should be First</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/06/22/failed-states-index-2010-united-states-should-be-first/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/06/22/failed-states-index-2010-united-states-should-be-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace has published the failed states index for 2010.  The group aims to rank nations based on what they call “12 Degrees of Failure”.  This includes among other things demographics, number of refugees, illegitimate government, brain drain and human rights.  For the record Somalia came in first with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arundhati Roy: The God of Controversial Things</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/06/02/arundhati-roy-the-god-of-controversial-things/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/06/02/arundhati-roy-the-god-of-controversial-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arundhati Roy is a person many Indians love to hate.  She is a woman who is not afraid to take on the system.  She is idealistic and has no problems expressing her opinions publicly even on some explosive subjects.  Most of her views are socialistic and left leaning (the fact that her mother is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should India Care About Canadian Opinion?</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/05/22/should-india-care-about-canadian-opinion/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/05/22/should-india-care-about-canadian-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 14:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian High Commission in New Delhi has described the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) as “a notoriously violent paramilitary unit engaged in systematic attacks on civilians and responsible for torturing suspected criminals”.  This was used as an excuse to deny visa to a former BSF jawan who wanted to travel to Canada.  Such language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander the Great and Chandragupta Maurya</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/05/15/alexander-the-great-and-chandragupta-maurya/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/05/15/alexander-the-great-and-chandragupta-maurya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of Alexander the Great is very familiar to most Indians (at least we think we do).  We are taught in history classes that Alexander invaded India in 326 BCE.  He fought a fierce battle with King Porus (battle of the Hydaspes River) in modern day Pakistan.  Porus was defeated but Alexander spared his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting and Preventing the Tamil Language From Extinction</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/04/23/promoting-and-preventing-the-tamil-language-from-extinction/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/04/23/promoting-and-preventing-the-tamil-language-from-extinction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chennai Corporation has started enforcing the rule that shops in the city should display name boards in Tamil.  According to the corporation the names and details in Tamil should occupy at least 50% of the total space.  Such laws have been in the books in Chennai and most other parts of Tamil Nadu for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kerala and West Bengal’s fall from Glory</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/04/10/kerala-and-west-bengal%e2%80%99s-fall-from-glory/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/04/10/kerala-and-west-bengal%e2%80%99s-fall-from-glory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When India got its independence from the British, the area we now call West Bengal and Kerala had huge advantages over most other states.  Literacy, social and land reforms which most other states are still struggling with were undertaken in these states decades ago.  But if you look at the state of affairs today you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Should Not Buy F-16s and F/A-18s from the United States</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/03/29/india-should-not-buy-f-16s-and-fa-18s-from-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/03/29/india-should-not-buy-f-16s-and-fa-18s-from-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an Indian who has lived in the United States for a long period of time I am generally in favor of improved relationship between the two nations. For India its relationship with Pakistan, China and the United States are its three most important ones. For the United States its relationship with India is important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Penalty Will Prevent Hijacking?</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/03/19/death-penalty-will-prevent-hijacking/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/03/19/death-penalty-will-prevent-hijacking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=1865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing its tradition of passing laws that has no practical use the Union Cabinet of India today approved a proposal submitted by the Civil Aviation Ministry to amend the Anti-Hijacking Act of 1982. This was announced by the Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni. The modified act will include the following: Section 3 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India in a Tough Spot in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/02/09/india-in-a-tight-spot-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week leaders of 70 nations met in London to discuss the future of Afghanistan.  The goal of the Western nations is to increase the size of the Afghanistan security forces to about 300,000 by mid next year.  This will enable the NATO and other forces to drop down the number of military personnel and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Proposes High-Level Talks with Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/02/07/india-proposes-high-level-talks-with-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India has invited the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Salman Bashir to meet with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao for talks later this month (Nirupama Rao has already met the Pakistani High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik to discuss the possibility of these talks).  New Delhi has indicated that it is willing to discuss any issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Believing The Pakistani Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/12/18/believing-the-pakistani-propaganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiple media outlets are reporting that Congressman John Conyers (Democrat from Michigan) has said in his speech to the House of Representatives that “In order to secure a long-term regional peace, the President must engage India and Pakistan to seek a final political agreement on Kashmir.”  He went on to add “Only when Pakistan feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for India &amp; China to Set Agenda</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/12/09/time-for-india-china-to-set-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/12/09/time-for-india-china-to-set-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America is now focused on the health care debate, state of the economy, Christmas season shopping, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Tiger Woods.  None of this has any relevance to the developing world particularly those countries in Asia that are continuing to see impressive economic growth even as many Western countries are struggling to cope with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United States Installs another “Leader”</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/11/20/united-states-installs-another-%e2%80%9cleader%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/11/20/united-states-installs-another-%e2%80%9cleader%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday President Hamid Karzai was sworn in as the President of Afghanistan for the second time.  The ceremony was held inside the presidential palace and was witnessed by a few foreign journalists.  The capital Kabul was completely shut down and was under curfew.  President Karzai joins a long list of leaders of foreign countries who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shared Legacy: George Bush and Manmohan Singh</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/11/02/shared-legacy-george-bush-and-manmohan-singh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Former President George W Bush is a great friend of our country.  We, in India, recognize the important role he played in the fruition of the civil nuclear cooperation initiative”.  These were the statements made by our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a Luncheon yesterday organized for George Bush who is visiting India.  President George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for India to Rethink its China Policy</title>
		<link>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/09/26/time-for-india-to-rethink-its-china-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://indiafirsthand.com/2009/09/26/time-for-india-to-rethink-its-china-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are an economist India is today a happy place.  More Indians are joining the middle class like never before and almost all vital indicators like poverty level, literacy rate, life span, and health are improving through out the country.  Pessimism has given way to optimism.  Most Indians believe that their best days are [...]]]></description>
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