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		<title>The Museum School</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Museum School is an innovative concept in the country that aims to mainstream the children who are left out of all education initiatives due to lack of resources. Looking away from the usual cries of lack of infrastructure in Government and Municipal schools, the model tries to identify existing infrastructure and resources, and make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=108&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Coincidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started in September last year when Mom said &#8220;Lets go to Tirupati&#8221; and I replied &#8220;I would not be able to get a week holiday&#8221;. So the matter was closed then and there though Mom used to keep on pestering me when ever she thought I&#8217;m in listening mode.  But then in December [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=101&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selected for TATA JAGRITI YATRA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I m too excited&#8230;. The moment I saw the selection mail I jumped as if I have got calls from all the 6 IIM&#8217;s (though I haven&#8217;t given CAT) . And why shouldn&#8217;t any participant of Tata Jagriti Yatra be excited. It is going to be most adventurous trip of life. The welcome letter reads [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=77&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next ???</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure this Question &#8211; What&#8217;s Next?  is going to haunt me at every stage of my life. At any moment &#8211; however busy I&#8217;m &#8211; my mind always thinks about What&#8217;s Next. And the result is I have a pile of NEXT To Do&#8217;s  &#8230;. and I&#8217;m always bit short of time. Either it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=71&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9. A NEW IMPATIENCE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2000-Vajpayee announces his education-for-all scheme, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. 2001-For the first time in an Indian election, the Election Commission successfully uses electronic voting machines (EVMs) across its voting centres. 2002-Riots in Gujarat lead to widespread killing largely targeted at the Muslim population. It is triggered by the burning of the Sabarmati Express train returning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=62&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8. THE CEDING OF POWER: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND FRACTURES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1991-While campaigning for general elections, Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber linked to Tamil rebels. -The Congress wins the election in a sympathy wave, similar to the one that helped Rajiv win in 1984. To fill the leadership gap, P.V. Narasimha Rao, a seventy-something former minister with a heart problem, is brought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=59&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7. THE CRUMBLING OF THE OLD ORDER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1977-The Congress party led by Indira loses the elections for the first time since 1947, and it is a landslide defeat. The prime minister of the Janata coalition government, Morarji Desai, who had been arrested along with other opposition leaders during the Emergency, has Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay arrested. -The government asks IBM [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=53&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6. UPRISINGS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1973-The global oil CrISIS. International headlines predict an imminent worldwide famine from overpopulation. In India a drought brings it once again to the brink of famine. Rioting engulfs the country once more. -The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act is passed by the government imposing massive restrictions on foreign currency and investment. 1975-The socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=51&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5. THE LOCUSTS DECADES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1964-For the government, the crises seem to have arrived all at once. Nehru dies. Crop failure and drought trigger spreading food shortages and rioting threatens to paralyse the country. 1965-Drawing lines in gunpowder: The Indo-Pakistan war to defend Jammu and Kashmir territory against Pakistani troops. -With the help of the American agronomist Norman Borlaugh, Indian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=48&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4. A HOPEFUL BUT TENUOUS COUNTRY</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1947-India gains independence after prolonged negotiations involving Hindu and Muslim leaders. The region is partitioned, after widespread violence, into Pakistan, a Muslim majority country, and India. Independent India is poor and illiterate, but led by leaders from its educated, upper middle class. 1948-Gandhi is assassinated. In a key 1948 meeting, in the wake of riots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brimmingoptimism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9631662&amp;post=45&amp;subd=brimmingoptimism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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