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		<title>India shining</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian development bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another feather in cap. It was indeed a heartwarming moment to hear that Asian Development Bank warned their delegates visiting India not to show bare legs or wear short dresses when in India as this could hurt Indian sensibilities and may lead to sexual harassment. So far, I had only heard our politicians suggesting women to be appropriately dressed to avoid inciting the incidents by dressing, in their definition, vulgarly. I was really moved seeing so much concern for our feelings by any foreign agency. My heart fills with joy with a mere thought of how well we have created awareness about our sentiments and outlook towards our women in the world. The advisory posted on ADB website further elaborates on their anxiety about our sentiments. Note mentions that trousers are acceptable, but shorts and short skirts are offensive to many. What a word of wisdom! Isn’t it? If not offensive to others, such clothes can definitely cause accidents on Indian roads. Considering the fact that Indians have an immaculate eye to appreciate beauty, it is impossible to avoid turning head while driving if a girl showcases her tall, lanky, long legs. And if an accident happens, you would not waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Wife (&#8220;Nirmala&#8221;) &#8211; Book Review</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=1016</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Munshi Premchand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nirmala]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This novel is not for those who expect an element of entertainment from reading this book. The genre is quite dark and somber and may give you grinch that would steal all your excitement. That doesn&#8217;t mean this book is not worth reading but it is expected you to have a sense of appreciation for literary work accentuating callous social issues eating lives of weak and feeble. Premchand has nicely woven the lives of different characters in the book. It is quite interesting to read how a small incidence associated with someone actually impacts the lives of all others. Apart from sending a social message in an assertive way, this book can be considered as reflection of Indian society back in the day. Though the story of &#8220;The Second wife&#8221;, an English translation of Premchand&#8217;s &#8220;Nirmala&#8221; by David Rubin, is set in the pre-independence era, it still seems to be so fresh that you might relate various instances in the book to modern society in bits and parts. At times I found Premchand a bit careless with time frame set-up like in a span of 3 years, a character described as a student earlier, is later announced as a successful doctor with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build your career, build nation</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=1002</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akhilesh yadav]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mulayam singh yadav]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[samajwadi party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spurt of statues and parks, majorly dedicated to puny alive politicians, and using government to satiate lust of power of a fistful of politicians left Uttar Pradesh on the brink of being called as a doomed state. Past more than a decade has put the state’s progress graph far down in the negative zone than one can imagine. In the name of development, government did go miles ahead when it accounted for raining money on statues and parks but forgot to understand the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Much stress was given on the beautification of state’s capital to the extent that few parts of the city would outclass some of the cities around the world known for their classy aesthetic architectural beauty, but the basic needs of the population went in oblivion. I was reading an article somewhere that government of India had released a fund of Rs.24, 000 Crore to Uttar Pradesh for building highways and roads, which I am sure was well utilized to strengthen the elephants carrying flag of Sarvajan Samaj. This was quite evident during my last visit to the state when I took a road journey from Varanasi to Lucknow. Such was the condition of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darsh&#8217;s Mundan</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=998</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey-to-Fatherhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[24th Feb 2012 was Darsh’s tonsuring (Mundan ceremony). We travelled to Vindhyachal, a very famous Hindu deity temple in the region situated 70 kilometers away from Varanasi. Vindhyachal, one of the ancient Shaktipeeths, is situated on the banks of river Ganga and surrounded by magnificence of nature.  Vindhyachal is a renowned religious city dedicated to goddess Vindhyavasini. The temple is a center of pilgrimage in the vicinity of Varanasi and MIrzapur. Almost everybody in our family for generations has been visiting the temple to mark important and auspicious events. As per Hindu tradition, a child receives his/her first Mundan either the first year or third year of age. Being Darsh’s third year, his hairs had grown to a substantial length, making him look healthier than he actually was then. It was really a painful sight of his long hairs going away. I will be honest to say that I have fairly no idea about this ritual that why is it considered so important. I probably may have to google to understand the rationale behind this custom. To me, more than a Mundan ceremony, it was like a family gathering. My parents and sister with her 2 years old kid came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam and Stuttering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Insight Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stammering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuttering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Early morning after prayers and national anthem, students entered their classroom with class teacher escorting them. Sam occupied his favorite corner place on the bench in second last row. Teacher opened attendance register amidst students fluttering pages of their books. The sound of students muttering and whispering went around the class room then gradually slowed down and finally came to silence. It took around 5 minutes for the students to settle in and organize for the day. Sam had started feeling edgy by now. He had been going through this every day with a promise to himself that next day he would overcome this sense of anxiety but consistently failed to keep on his promise. Teacher started reading out the roll call. As she was approaching to his name alphabetically, his heart beat started being heavy and this was visible in the form of small droplets of sweat on his forehead. Sam was moving his lips, without speaking anything as if practicing to answer roll call. His palms were sweating with fingers busy in spinning the only blue ballpoint pen that he had. Probably his best friend Sandeep sitting next to him was noticing all these and like any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Two</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=867</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey-to-Fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[father]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is always a moment of going through emotions whenever I write about my kid. He has now completed two years and I just realized so much has changed since my last entry. He has now started building his dictionary and trying to express himself with whatever words he can use. We can now exchange verbal communication and he uses Telugu (words like &#8220;aiiyo&#8221; and rest we don&#8217;t understand), at times Hindi and many a times English as well to drag our attention or to perverse or to caress us. Another observation is his dominant sense to look good and spending minutes in front of mirror after being dressed up and watching himself from all the possible angles. Without any second thought I can say this element has passed down from my wife to him. He has lost all the traces of whatever little baby fat he had and has become lot slimmer (we are still hoping him to gain some weight). My two year old loves to imitate the dance moves he sees on TV (specially for songs featuring Salman Khan) and tries to sing or at least manages to make some rhythmic sounds. His favorite leisure activity is crooning Kolaveri di and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Hazare and Lokpal Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=718</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anna hazare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lokpal bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taking even a shallow dive into Indian bureaucracy and politics would make you feel that this country is being run by god. From top to bottom it is a thoroughly corrupt system in India. Every now and then people and media have kept on raising their voices against corruption but nothing much could be achieved. Despite of prevention of corruption act and many other acts, hardly there had been instances when we were able to check corruption. Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption has revived the 42 year old ongoing Lokpal Bill discussion and brought common people together to think of a better and efficient way to fight against corruption. I do not possess great knowledge on judiciary and politics, but I feel the current skeleton of Lok Pal bill cannot go much ahead on the curve as other anti corruption acts in India. Lokpal bill revolves around the public grievances and hence there should be greater role of public in this anti-corruption bill. After being presented in Lok-Sabha for more than 10 times in last 42 years, this is the high time to get go signal for Lokpal Bill when we are witnessing a pinnacle of corruption. Considering the procedural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>६२वा गणतंत्र</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=708</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upmaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hindi Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 G]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[26 January]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Raja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adarsha Housing Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anupam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashok Chavan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[६२वा गणतंत्र दिवस लो आ गया, इकसठ से बासठ की यात्रा का रोमांच, आखों के पर्दे पर फ्लैश बैक सा चल गया &#124; जो यात्रा, प्याज के २० रुपये प्रति किलो से शुरू हुई, वो ६५ रुपये के नए आयाम को छू गई, तरक्की और स्पीड तो देखो, जापान की बुलेट ट्रेन को भी पीछे छोड़ गई &#124; कुछ और विश्लेषण करें, इकसठ से बासठ तक के सफ़र का अगर, लास वेगास और मियामी से भी ज़्यादा, हॅपनिंग अपना देश रहा &#124; अमरीका में मार्क ज़ुक्केरबेर्ग बिलियनेर बना, तो हमारे यहाँ, टू जी की स्पीड से ए राजा, उसका भी बाप बना &#124; कॉमन वेल्थ गेम्स करा, कलमाडी ने क्या खूब झंडा गाड़ा, बार्गैनिन्ग का अर्थ बदला, चार-चार आने के उपकर्नो को, लाखों-लाख में खरीदा &#124; गणतंत्र हमारा, अभी कम बुलंद हुआ था, कि अशोक चावान ने स्वर्णिम अध्याय जोड़ा जब आपका-हमारा हिस्सा कम पड़ा, शहीदों का &#8220;आदर्श&#8221; भी खाया और पचाया &#124; नही है मंशा &#8220;अनुपम&#8221; की, सिर्फ़, कमियाँ आज गिनाने की, निवेदन कहो, या पुकार है बिखरते गणतंत्र को संगठित करने की &#124;]]></description>
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		<title>An Year As It Was</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=697</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upmaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insight Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anupam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing to mention more as most of my earlier posts kept narrating all about how I spent year 2010. It started with a bang, then some ups and downs; wife joined me after maternity leave, I spent some very good time with my family, occasionally my mother-in-law, my sister and my mother joined me and then again my wife left me to stay with my parents. The year ended with my dearest sister’s wedding and myself leaving HSBC to explore other avenues. All in all a good year ended on positive note and now looking for another gratifying year. A bit painful to stay away from family but I am hopeful to reap rich reward of this sacrifice. Concurrently I had been struggling with my allergic rhinitis problem which aggravated in last few month’s even after undergoing a surgery 3 years ago. When a renowned ENT specialist in Hyderabad declared the one more surgery as the only option and that’s too within 15 days (later came to know he suggests surgery to 95% of his patients), I decided to go the other way which elders had been suggesting for years. I gave my new year’s resolution a yogic twist and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Darsh on his First Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey-to-Fatherhood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darsh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Darshu, Many congratulations on your first birthday! I don’t know when would you be reading this letter and I am not sure whether I would be able to preserve this for you till the time you are grown enough to read and understand. But I wanted to feel glad that I savored the moments and recorded them in my own way for you to relish sometime in future. I won’t use your first birthday to lecture you with heavy fatherly words. We can wait for probably few more years to strike such talks. I would better love to recall how the past one year has passed by. It seems it was yesterday when you came knocking the door early morning, a few minutes before Six O’ Clock. A year ago your mom was lying in hospital. The indecision whether to go for surgery or wait for a normal delivery was debilitating us. Just a few days before your birth, we were given a hint that it was a baby boy, though we were least bothered about that. After a lot of hustle-bustle, your mom was operated upon and you came into this world. Since then you have been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed yet another family function- 1st B&#8217;day of my son</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey-to-Fatherhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four friends from same college working for different organizations united after years in the city of Nizams. It wouldn’t have been anything less than bliss, if I was not married. But it is indeed ecstatic to be with them when I am away from my family. I am obviously missing my family every day and every hour and sometimes even dissapointed by my decision. But this sudden and tricky transition to a bachelor’s (forced) life from a happy married life never had a woe because of the good friends being around. But the day today, has been overshadowed by the sting of mising my son’s first birthday. After missing third consecutive Diwali without wife (still have to open an account to be with wife on Diwali) and parents, and missing many more family functions in past few years, this one was more painful to bear. I could not do anything other than envisioning the series of events that would have taken place since morning at my home. The day started for Darsh with “Satyanarayan Katha” and ended with an outdoor function. And I held myself waiting till 11:30 night to see some pictures of entire day’s activities. I was experiencing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 years together 24 hours a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Insight Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wife]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 2 years, we had almost been with each other for 24 hours of the day. Be it home or office or in transit, everywhere we were together. Starting from breakfast to occasional lunch and then dinner together everyday, now suddenly a hiatus to all. Being in UK without her for the past some time, I was still satisfied as till lunch hour I would be able to catch her on office network. I somehow had a sense of little closeness even while staying so far, that I would be able to talk to her or chat with her whenever I wanted. Today was her last day in office and I chatted with her last time on sametime. I was so used to being with her 24 hours a day that a mere thought of not finding her sametime status appearing green in office from coming Monday makes me feel disturbed. To add more to worst, she will leave Hyderabad on 27th September in my absence and I would not be even there to see her off. The house we built gradually in close to 3 years of our marriage life would scatter in a moment. My son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women and religion</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=662</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upmaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hindu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karwa Chauth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solah somwaar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teej]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vat Savitri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vrat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not intend to hurt the emotions of any person or any community. In addition, I would restrict my views to a religion I belong, as I am not aware of rites and rituals specific to others. Next major festival for Hindus is Teej on the calendar, which out of nothing made me to churn my thoughts that why only wives fast for husbands or in general, I should say why only females fast for males (will discuss later why I said so). I sincerely apologise to bug you with this dollish post. But life has been a ride of roller-coaster for the past few weeks for me, had a few laps of nervous breakdown as well, because of which I guess I developed this poor habit of thinking preposterous stuffs, but this one I really found suitable to place on my blog. Now taking you down the lanes of my thoughts, I virtually feel that the evolution of fasts like Karwa Chauth, Vat Savitri or Teej clearly endorse we have had a strong male driven society which still influences 21st century India. A married woman fasts for her husband on Vat Savitri poojan, Karwa Chauth and Teej day. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He is growing up</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=654</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey-to-Fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anupam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pooja]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ahh… After a long gap I am back to my favorite blogging subject, i.e. Darsh. We are truly enjoying watching him learn something new every now and then. Barely completed 8 months, now this little man has started snatching every small thing he sees out of our hand. And an unsuccessful attempt irritates him to the core and then his fake crying and growling becomes a nightmare for Pooja and I. Be it food, be it TV remote, be it toys or newspaper, he has to get hold of everything. And his love towards laptop would make you feel as if he is a born techie. The way he moves his fingers over the keyboard gives an impression of a typist being in business since ages. My boy is really developing strong and we are finding difficult to set boundaries for him (unsure if we should). He has mastered the art of rolling over. He does not leave any stone unturned when it comes to surprise us with his new tricks of rolling off the bed and specially when we least expect this. The best till date came last week, when he folded his legs towards the chest and came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aashaa</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=647</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hindi Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anupam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hindi poem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A small hindi poem....]]></description>
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		<title>Sachin Chalisa</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=638</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hindi Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chalisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sachin Tendulkar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is for die hard fans of the great Sachin Tendulkar.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Generalist Business Analyst</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=614</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My Views]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Analyst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domain specific]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post purely reflects my opinion and cannot be necessarily generalized to any organization I am associated with or to anyone or everyone associated with me.]]></description>
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		<title>एक दिवस फिर बीत गया !</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=601</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hindi Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anupam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With this poem, I tried to bring some "Chhayavaad" flavor to my style of writing hindi poems. Probably you are the better person to judge how successful was I in my intention.]]></description>
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		<title>Standing Darsh</title>
		<link>http://www.upmaan.com/?p=559</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 18:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey-to-Fatherhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Darsh standing with support of bed&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Meri Madhushala -2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 19:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upmaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hindi Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madhushala]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Meri Madhushala-2” is my second effort to write a poem using the instruments of Bachchan ji [madira or haala (wine), saaki (server), pyaala (cup or glass) and madhusala, madiralaya (pub/bar) ] that he used in Madhushala to explain the complexities of life. I hope I have not hurt the emotions of his fans and expect your inputs on how to improve for next versions.I am highly inspired by Madhushala and I maintain that nothing can match it’s stature ever.]]></description>
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