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		<title>The Hug-Kiss Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anjuly Mathai How to greet people. It’s a dilemma that has plagued me for long. Recently, my brother’s wedding got over and I got to meet hordes of people. While meeting each cousin, uncle or aunt, I wondered how to greet them. What is the proper code in these situations? Should I hug them or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical And Creative Thinking!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fr. Anand Muttungal The creative thinking is intertwined with critical thinking. Encouraging creativity means a departure from society’s existing norms and values. The Latin word creatio was solely used to highlight the deeds of God. In the Renaissance Period people first recognized their own ability to create something new. While critical thinking is a free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your poor American cousin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Carmichael Remember “My American Cousin”? Wayward big cousin Butch from California shows up at his aunt and uncle’s ranch in British Columbia in his fancy car, sending dreamy and bored little cousin Sandy into a tizzy. The film is set in the 1950s and was released in 1985, but captures an enduring sentiment: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the Yuletide Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sivaram Srikandath Last week, we put up our Christmas tree at home in what has now become an annual ceremony. The tree has been with us for the past more than fifteen years. It is not very large, just about 5 feet tall; an artificial fir made of plastic, and filled with fiber-optic nodes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDI in Retail without Enhanced Social Security will be Suicidal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr Rahul Pandey A lot of well off and educated sections of our society are rooting for FDI in retail. There seems to be a disappointment among the middle/upper middle class consumers and the corporate world that the Government of India has put this policy on hold. There was an article published in The Telegraph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US and the death penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some rotten structures stand for a long time, and then the lightest touch causes them to fall. Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber has given the rotten structure of the death penalty a nudge, and while it will not topple that structure, at the very least, one more piece is gone. Mr. Kitzhaber has promised that no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judiciary should be in Lokpal ambit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nava Thakuria The Lokpal should cover the highest office in governments and also the judiciary of India, such that the institution can deliver its duty and responsibility to meet the expectation of huge populace of the country, argues Prasant Bhusan, an eminent lawyer in Supreme Court of India. Addressing a gathering of human rights activists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption, Community and the Lokpal Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Jayakumar The ecumenical movement in India are concerned about corruption in public life. Corruption adversely affects the whole system of Governance, having a negative influence on the relationship between those who govern and the governed, especially the poor and marginalized communities. Despite its ratification of the United Nation’s Convention against Corruption in May 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No to Toothless Apolitical Watch Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. James Kottoor Thoughtful and thoughtless words come crowding when one is engaged in a heated debate, only to regret later the thoughtless ones uttered. In an over enthusiasm Kiran Bedi said &#8216;India is Anna &#038; Anna is India&#8217;. A subdued hue and cry erupted. It brought her to senses and she kept quiet, neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another ‘inconvenient truth’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Simpson Fewer people will be working to support those who aren’t. The consequences will be twofold: Government revenue growth will fall, and government spending obligations will rise. Thus, there’ll be unavoidable pressure for higher taxes or spending cuts, or both. Pick your poison. Today’s headlines are understandably all about the economic turmoil in Europe [...]]]></description>
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