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		<title>Hitchhiking reason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hitchens died two days back fighting oesophageal cancer for over a year now. How many people wished that he would in the last days of his life renounce the acerbity with which he attacked religion of any sort. With the three other horsemen &#8211; Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (cf the four horsemen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/12/17/hitchhiking-reason/</link>
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		<title>From questionable social subsidies to unquestioned corporate welfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unusually punctual gathering on the dais greeted me at Rotary Club. Thankfully, this was a gathering of unimportant people both on and off the dais; none of those species of &#8220;Very Important People&#8221; often sporting Anna-like caps were invited to the gathering and things started on time. P Sainath was supposed to be speaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/09/18/sainath-talk/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;old and fragile records&#8221; in an age of RTI and computers: How our heritage collections are managed by ZSI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Zoological Survey of India has an illustrious history. On 1st July, 1916, the organisation was instituted with a mission to “…to promote survey, exploration and research leading to the advancement in our knowledge of various aspects of exceptionally rich life of the erstwhile British Indian Empire” (Emphasis mine). Alfred William Alcock was a British physician-naturalist, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/08/27/259/</link>
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		<title>… and Then The Dessert Arrived: Global Health Dichotomies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story was tragic. A Tuberculosis patient from India who died because the system which was expected to provide for his treatment failed to deliver… and then the dessert arrived. The setting? The official dinner of the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research organized at the Montreux Casino. A photo of the dying TB [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/08/09/%e2%80%a6-and-then-the-dessert-arrived-global-health-dichotomies/</link>
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		<title>Learning online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is indeed great days for learners, especially for those who are self-directed, auto-didactic as they are apparently called. With the explosion of those delectable tablets made by that company Lieutenant Dan invested in and the claim that many other products are what evoulutionary biologists would call Batesian mimics, the access and availability to information has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/05/15/learning-online/</link>
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		<title>The truth that dare not speak its name: corruption in health services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today -Mahatma Gandhi Some things are better assumed and neglected, than acknowledged and attended to. In public health research, these often find a passing mention in “Discussion” section where findings are explained, and worse still, may be as a “contextual” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/01/25/the-truth-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-corruption-in-health-services/</link>
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		<title>Valparai TEN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 15th was the tenth year of Wikipedia. Although, I missed being at the Bangalore TEN celebrations, along with Kalyan, some of us held the celebrations in Valparai. Here is a brief write-up I did on it as a guest contributor on the restoration blog of NCF. Pasted below is the article from there: In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2011/01/17/valparai-ten/</link>
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		<title>Justice not so blind in Chhatisgarh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a shameful day in the history of Indian judiciary, when a doctor who stood as a voice for the poor, oppressed and marginalised is polished off in the most unceremonious way to a life in the prison. What is on trial is indeed justice itself in this case. Over the last few years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2010/12/26/justice-not-so-blind-in-chhatisgarh/</link>
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		<title>Switching the poles &#8211; the ITM way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been said, something has been tried and many reports have been published about the huge North-South divide seen in the world today. The resource-rich, but economically poor global South continues to reel under socio-economic, political and apparently scientific poverty (if research publications are any index of science!). We, the global South have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2010/12/05/switching-the-poles/</link>
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		<title>The memory remains: MMC ’97 fast-forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. - Douglas Adams It was just another among many Novembers for the Head of department of Anatomy at Mysore Medical College. However, it was a special moment for the close to hundred eager [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://daktre.com/2010/10/24/the-memory-remains-mmc-%e2%80%9997-fast-forward/</link>
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