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		<title>Post-liberalization India &#8211; Free For All?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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My Airtel broadband was down (second time in a month) so I called Airtel customer service number from my Airtel mobile number. For about two hours, I couldn’t get through ‘cause the “network was busy”. Finally four hours later when I tried again, I got through. By “got through”, I mean, I got through to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=643&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mandatory to vote?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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Posted in Politics and Government Tagged: BJP, Congress, democracy, elections, Gujarat, india, local elections, mandatory voting, municipal, Narendra Modi, panchayat      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=639&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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Why is there so much despondency with old age? An urge to go back in time and edit one&#8217;s decisions? A feeling of lack of appreciation? Of irrelevance? Or the increasing physical constraints of age?

It came to me the other day:
Were I to die, no one would say,
“Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=632&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sure Race to Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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Headley, Copenhagen, Liberhan, Telangana have dominated the news for days, weeks interspersed with some impassioned rhetoric on Naxalism, regionalism, and whatever trivial comments Rahul Gandhi makes at some university or about landing his chopper in poor visibility etc. Is it really possible that a country of India&#8217;s size, diversity and development challenges, will have such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=624&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statehood Demands in the Offing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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See graphic below for other separatist movements
 




Posted in Politics and Government Tagged: Assam, Bhojpur, Bihar, Bodoland, Bundelkhand, Chhattisgarh, Gorkhaland, Gujarat, Harit Pradesh, Hyderabad, india, Jammu Kashmir, Karnataka, KCR, Kerela, Kongu Nadhu, linguistic, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Marathwada, Orissa, poverty, Purvanchal, separatist demands, state reorganization, states, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, uneven development, union territory, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=617&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telangana, KCR and the Insidious Political Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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The separatist Telangana movement, which can be traced back to 1969 (and earlier), is front page news again ‘cause of K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s fast.
As a tool, fasting is one of the most insidious ways to achieve ones political ends. Politics, the art and science of government is essentially about reasoned decisions to achieve the greatest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=603&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s UID project &#8211; discussion needed</title>
		<link>http://bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/indias-uid-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ - Anti-terror agenda not pro-poor agenda hence much potential for harassment of the undocumented poor. 
 - Limited benefit without universal coverage
 - UID beneficial to the poor only if social security organizations make changes to their service delivery mechanism, which will entail very high additional investment. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=579&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Aamir Khan shouldn&#8217;t lobby for Kiran Bedi (or anyone else)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three reasons why the campaign by Aamir Khan, Subhash Chandra, Arvind Kejriwal et al for Kiran Bedi’s appointment to the top CIC position is both flawed and inappropriate: suitability not public opinion should be the basis for administrative appointments; candidate/campaign should present manifesto if waging public campaign; celebrity campaigns concentrate power and are susceptible to manipulation and opacity

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		<title>Instituting democracy in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruchi Gupta</dc:creator>
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India is not a democracy. Governance by the will of the people, and its automatic corollary, accountability of the State’s representatives are a basic premise of democracy. In India, the State is not accountable to its constituents, the public. While there are many progressive and honest politicians/bureaucrats, the organizational structure of our government with its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=549&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India Elections: My vote &#8211; significant or a mere trifle?</title>
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Like a lumbering Goliath, India kicked off its month-long national elections today. The turnout in India hovers around 60%. This time may be higher owing to the addition of first-time voters as Indian youth come of age and the newly politicized middle-class in the aftermath of Mumbai terrorist attacks. The media is replete with dramatic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bourgeoisinspirations.wordpress.com&blog=5976519&post=540&subd=bourgeoisinspirations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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