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		<title>Eagerly Awaiting the Monsoons</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2012/05/24/eagerly-awaiting-the-monsoons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kundan Park continues to get through the summer on water drawn from borewell contaminated with e-coli. I&#8217;m not sure how many food poisoning cases were a direct result of this. Thanks to the shakeup from to the reduced water supply I learned a couple of things. We&#8217;re getting less water than we ought to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=3442&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brave Face on Satyamev Jayate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 10:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immense respect for Aamir Khan for taking on core social issues that plague India. I agree with Mausim Ummedi of Burhanpur &#8211; by removing societal pressure of having a big Indian wedding off the minds of families across social stratas, things will get incredibly easier for newlyweds to enter into wedlock. Our thinking needs to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=3427&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you Ajit Pawar for the wake up call</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2012/04/12/thank-you-ajit-pawar-for-the-wake-up-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kundan Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shivajinagar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Ajit Pawar for your strict action on Pune&#8217;s water consumption habits. As a direct result of your decisions and recommendations from the Irrigation department, I have noticed these changes. Since water now flows only between 6am to 7am here in Kundan Park, Shivajinagar &#8211; the entire building is now scrambling to get up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=3389&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An update on my blog</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/08/14/an-update-on-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are wondering what&#8217;s going on here, this is where I write. I have had a live blog on the web for a really long time now. If you&#8217;ll look to your right, you&#8217;ll see streamlined post categories including ventures, technology, reflection, india, programming and fiction. These are really the things I write passionately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=2867&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netbooks at $99 from AT&amp;T</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2009/04/04/netbooks-at-99-from-att/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece of news is exciting enough to merit a blog post. This year, at least one wireless phone company in the United States will probably offer netbooks free with paid data plans, copying similar programs in Japan, according to industry experts. But this revolution is not just about falling prices. Personal computers — and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1499&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why be at Proto &amp; Headstart 2009?</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/12/09/why-be-at-proto-headstart-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://sukshma.net/2008/12/09/why-be-at-proto-headstart-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried selling an invention or an idea? If you happen to be a &#8216;nutty&#8217; entrepreneur who is always thinking about building (and selling) the next new new thing &#8211; I have news for you. Help has just arrived in the form of innovation show cases &#8211; Proto.in and Headstart.in. Earlier this year, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1267&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Power Yoga startup in the city</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/08/10/a-power-yoga-startup-in-the-city/</link>
		<comments>http://sukshma.net/2008/08/10/a-power-yoga-startup-in-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met a young Canadian girl, Daphnee, who has chosen Pune for her startup too. She has been a yoga practitioner for over 8 years and came to India in 2005. She has been traveling and teaching in different parts of the country and finally decided to start up in Pune. I enrolled for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1178&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lipikaar&#8217;s a big hit at Proto!</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/07/22/lipikaar-at-proto4/</link>
		<comments>http://sukshma.net/2008/07/22/lipikaar-at-proto4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 48 hours of non-stop talking, interspersed with few hours of sleep, we&#8217;re finally getting back to answering an avalanche of unread emails. We presented Lipikaar at the summer edition of Proto IV 2008 (July 18-19, at I.I.T. Delhi) along with 15 other finalists. Here&#8217;s a video of the 6 minute presentation we made to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1150&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have Energy Unlimited</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/07/04/have-energy-unlimited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every Pune OpenCoffee Club meet, you can&#8217;t help but notice the energy that Entrepreneurs bring with them. It is exciting and infectious. However, the Pune OCC is proving to be more than just about youth and learning. On July 3rd, Neeraj Arora of Google&#8217;s Corporate M&#38;A wing, Neill Brownstein and Anjana Kaul of Footprint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1148&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy to see all the action on POCC!</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/06/25/footprint-ventures-to-visit-pune-startups/</link>
		<comments>http://sukshma.net/2008/06/25/footprint-ventures-to-visit-pune-startups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started the Pune Open Coffee Club in March 2008 on the suggestion of a friend, Vijay Anand (Founder, Proto.in), little did I know that in a short span of three months, the Club would attract over 200 members. Anjali and I used to brainstorm ways of marketing POCC, and one of the ideas that really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1144&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movers and shakers of Pune&#8217;s startup world visit BookEazy</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/04/07/pune-startups-meet-a-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pune OpenCoffee Club meetup was an unqualified success. Over 70 POCC members made it to the networking meet. Pune&#8217;s startup eco-system is undoubtedly buzzing with life. Some of the startups that attended are 42, Aftek, ApnaBill, BookEazy, Business Gateway, Career Vidya, Desicrew, Dial-a-meal, Druvaa, GlobalLogic, GridLogic, Hover.in, ImageLogic, Komli, Lipikaar, Mobikon, Niyuj, Omni Bridge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1122&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing the Pune Startup Eco-System through Open Communities</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/03/19/pune-startups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been helping the Pune OpenCoffee Club bootstrap itself here in Pune. The community is designed to help Tech. Startup Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Advisors, Investors and everyone else. Pune also hosts a number of other organizations aimed at Entrepreneurs &#8211; CSI-Pune, SEAP, TiE, NASSCOM to name a few. How is this different? To begin with, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1118&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Bazaar&#8217;s Saste Din, Saste in name only</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/02/04/big-bazaar-sabse-saste-din/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Bazaar and the culture of always low prices has finally arrived here in India. The question is &#8211; does Big Bazaar match consumer expectations, or are they just making empty promises. I paid a visit to the local Big Bazaar at Fatima Nagar in Pune on Republic Day. Kishore Biyani&#8217;s retail chain was having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1107&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Discounted Indian</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/01/12/the-discounted-indian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all (who have been born and brought up here in India) love a discount! Hold on a second, we don&#8217;t really just love discounts &#8211; we absolutely adore them. Our daily dose of adrenalin relies on relishing a good deal. I remember walking into Landmark not so long ago. The book section was decked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1063&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are consumers getting a raw deal with multiplex chains?</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/12/24/are-consumers-getting-a-raw-deal-with-multiplex-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI: Multiplex chains Adlabs Cinemas, Inox, Fame, Cinemax and Movietime have come together to take a stand against the two movies releasing this Friday namely Welcome and Taare Zameen Par&#8230; &#8230; PVR opened the advance booking for Taare Zameen Par at its properties one week prior to its release, while it was still under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1094&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google signs deal with AirTel for GPRS users attention</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/12/23/google-signs-deal-with-airtel-for-gprs-users-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would Google India sign a deal with AirTel to share advertising revenue for data applications? Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s largest mobile service provider with nearly 53 million customers, plans to tie up with leading Internet portals for sharing advertising revenue when Airtel’s subscribers visit those websites through mobile Internet. “We have an exclusive tie-up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1093&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TiE ISB Connect 2007</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/11/13/tie-isb-connect-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be attending the TiE ISB Connect 2007 for entrepreneurs on November 14th, 15th and 16th at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. BookEazy co-founder (and author here on Sukshma), Anjali Gupta, has been invited to participate in a panel discussion on Funding Software Product Ventures. Anjali will be talking about her approach and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1077&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fring de! India</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/11/06/fring-de-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOIP for mobile happens to be one of my top predictions for fastest growing markets in India. Fring is the application making it happen. It is already the most frequently used application on my Nokia E61i. I use Fring for Skype International calls, chat on GTalk, MSN and other networks. The only drawback is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1073&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SysInclude == Remarkable</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/11/05/sysinclude-remarkable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to keep only the best Startups from India in focus here. In order to get listed, a product has to be Remarkable, early stage, in sync with our times, and address a significant need which many people have. SysInclude is a social network dedicated to IT professionals in India (and elsewhere) who work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1072&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Internet Eco-System an Oddity</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/10/23/indian-internet-eco-system-an-oddity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006, a few VC&#8217;s left their Sand Hill Road offices and visited us to talk about what investments they would like to see happen. They cheekily talked about how they were seriously looking at the Internet and Mobile industries. However, their adopted strategies are focused on retail and infrastructure. This is also evident [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1069&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See you at Barcamp Mumbai 2</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/10/13/see-you-at-barcamp-mumbai-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be there at Barcamp Mumbai 2 &#8211; 14th Oct. IIT Mumbai &#8211; let me know if you will be attending.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1064&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you burnt your bridges?</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/08/07/have-you-burnt-your-bridges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently left his hi-flutin job to start a consultancy (Software and IT services) in Pune. Reproduced below is a conversation he recently had with a prospective client. Friend: Why won&#8217;t you give us the contract? Client: Tell me, what will you do if your consultancy does not work out for you? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1053&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Road warriors get beMobile</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/07/19/road-warriors-get-bemobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of our early adopter customers have been pushing us hard for a mobile version of bookeazy.com. Last night, our technology team finished and released a Beta mobile prototype of bookeazy.com, what we proudly call beMobile. If you have GPRS/EDGE enabled or CDMA &#8211; data, give the application a whirl. If your phone is GPRS/EDGE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1051&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising: Getting it right for India</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/07/10/advertising-getting-it-right-for-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always a treat to hear Prasoon Joshi share his insights on consumer marketing and advertising. On a recent NDTV show when describing the difference between Hollywood and Bollywood, he explained that Hollywood is all about the &#8220;WHAT&#8221; while Bollywood is all about the &#8220;HOW&#8221;. We don&#8217;t watch Hindi movies wondering &#8220;what is going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1048&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pune startup mixer at Komli</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2007/06/03/pune-startup-mixer-at-komli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Komli organized a get-together for various Pune-based startups at Komli. Mukul Kumar has the full report on his blog. I am amazed by the variety and depth of the work being done by some of the startups here. Wish them all luck. Click here for more posts on startups.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&#038;blog=19474&#038;post=1045&#038;subd=sdawara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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