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		<title>The Republic of Banana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you but when the Central government decided to ban all cartoons from school textbooks, my reaction as a well-informed journalist was: WHAT! They have cartoons in school textbooks these days? Because, when we were in school, textbooks contained &#8212; you could not have guessed this &#8212; just texts. Occasionally, there used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crank&#8217;s News: Greece told to seek royalty for Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McKinsey prepares blueprint for monetising ‘world’s biggest sports brand’ Athens:  Faced with a mounting debt crisis, Greece has been advised by the global management consulting firm McKinsey to monetise the biggest sporting brand that it (Greece) has given to the world: Olympics. ‘Make no mistake about it, Olympics is a humungous brand. And it, without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2012/05/17/cranks-news-greece-told-to-seek-royalty-for-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Mother sentiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many conveniences that Western culture has given to the rest of the world, greeting cards must be considered as very handy ones because, if you observe closely, they help convey your inner most feelings through the most tacky and templated words. Don’t be a moron and ask why do you have to fall back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2012/05/11/mother-sentiment/</link>
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		<title>Pratibha Patil set to create history as first woman ex-President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Delhi: Without letting the many controversies surrounding her and her family members be a distraction, President Pratibha Patil is all set to pull off a ‘historical first’, which she hopes will be a ‘major source of inspiration for all Indian women’. With the UPA unlikely to renominate her for the post of President, Pratibha [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2012/05/10/pratibha-patil-set-to-create-history-as-first-woman-ex-president/</link>
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		<title>Orange cap for G R Vishwanath!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know what, even though Sharukh Khan was seated just a couple of feet away from me in the stands at the M A Chidambaram stadium, many people were eyeing only me. ‘This being cerebral Chennai,’ I began to think within myself, ‘they probably value a writer more than they do an actor.’ Just as [...]]]></description>
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