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	<description>Phew! The world is now in safe hands</description>
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		<title>Here we are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been missing out on a lot of action in the recent past. The reasons are plenty and not necessary to get into. One noteworthy fact is that Twitter has managed to steal a greater percentage of my digital communication.
I also understand that I had cited a similar reason many months ago to explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of God?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is perhaps one of the biggest and most important milestones in the history of mankind. Craig Venter has created the world&#8217;s first synthetic life form. The new organism was created in a lab entirely out of four bottles of chemicals.
Excerpt from the article in Guardian:
The new organism is based on an existing bacterium that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1168/the-end-of-god/</link>
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		<title>Book available on Rediff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick update: My book &#8220;Neumonia and Other Sketch Stories&#8221; is now available on Rediff.
The book is shipped in 3 days and you also get Rs. 25 off the original price!
Click here to order now!
Some details about the book here: www.sketchstories.com
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		<title>Book Review: Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress</title>
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Dai Sijie&#8217;s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a book that neatly conforms to the phrase &#8216;poetry in motion&#8217;. Set in the times of the Chinese cultural revolution, when every educated youth was sent to the villages to get &#8220;re-educated&#8221; by the peasants, this book unfolds magically and just as youthfully as its protagonists.
Luo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1159/balzac-little-chinese-seamstress-review/</link>
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		<title>The Misery of Internal Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of links pertaining to the Naxalism issue, the government&#8217;s role in it and the impact being created.
Annie Zaidi, of Known Turf, jots down excerpts in her post &#8220;Some questions, some stories&#8221;
One of the excerpts:
&#8216;My name is Lingaram, from Sameli, Dantewada. I am a driver and my family has a car, in which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1155/the-misery-of-internal-wars/</link>
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		<title>Cricket, Coffee and Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A popular radio channel hosted a &#8220;coffee cup reader&#8221; on its morning show yesterday. While listening to the show I managed to figure out that a &#8220;coffee cup reader&#8221; is some sort of a soothsayer.
Out of the many people who call up to know about what lies ahead in their lives, Karan Singhvi is one. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1153/cricket-coffee-and-future/</link>
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		<title>PC&#8217;s response to the Naxal ambush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[P. Chidambaram has released this official statement in response to yesterday&#8217;s Naxalite attack which led to 76 CRPF personnel losing their lives. Couple of paragraphs:
The State has a legitimate right to deploy its security forces to resist, apprehend and, if necessary, neutralise militants who are determined to strike at the very roots of our nation.
It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1151/pcs-response-to-the-naxal-ambush/</link>
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		<title>Two Points. Multiple Paths. Differential Geometry.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Strogatz returns with his 8th post of the &#8220;math, from basic to baffling&#8221; series, this time focusing his articulate discourse on the concept of differential geometry.
It is a must read and will leave you a whole lot clearer on things like geodesics and shortest paths.
Loved the final paragraph, which I present below:
Sometimes when people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1149/two-points-multiple-paths-differential-geometry/</link>
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		<title>The Case of Exploding Mangoes &#8211; Book Review</title>
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Two young army cadets wanting to break the ranks. One smart, the other a romantic. Two powerful army generals gambolling in power. One is the country&#8217;s president, and the other touted as the &#8220;second most powerful&#8221; person. The country is Pakistan, and in the backdrop is the war between the USSR, Afghanistan and the USA.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhimantparekh.com/1144/the-case-of-exploding-mangoes-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Finding your Roots &#8211; The Complex Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Strogatz continues his series on &#8220;math, from basic to baffling&#8221; with his latest article talking about complex numbers. Very interesting, especially the fractal representation of multiple roots of a polynomial. Check out the article here.
Excerpt:
Better yet, a grand statement called The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra says that the roots of any polynomial are always [...]]]></description>
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