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		<title>IT and India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Amartya Sen&#8217;s keynote address at NASSCOM leadership forum
Some admirations come from near, others from very far.   My respect and reverence for the IT industry in general and the extraordinarily dynamic and triumphant Indian IT industry in particular have come, by necessity, from some distance, since I am a dabbler in things far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/03/21/it-and-india/</link>
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		<title>Developing drugs for the poor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when many pharmaceutical companies are in the news for pulling out all the stops for extending the exclusivity of their patented drugs and focussing on developing drugs for diseases prevalent in developed countries, Sanofi-aventis, a Paris-based drug company, has truly lived up to its slogan, `Because health matters.&#8217; The anti-malarial fixed-dose combination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/03/21/developing-drugs-for-the-poor/</link>
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		<title>Scottish internationalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Geddes was a remarkable urban environmentalist who is relevant even today.

&#8220;INDIA lives in her villages,&#8221; said Mahatma Gandhi. This is an injunction that the environmental movement in India has taken very seriously indeed. Thus scholars and activists have argued about such matters as the commercial bias in forest policy, the disappearance of species, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/03/20/scottish-internationalist/</link>
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		<title>Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interview with K Rajagopal, an architect and President, Indian Institute of Architects
Can you give some background on when architecture developed into a curriculum, a definite course of study?
Architecture can be defined as the science of building. It is both an art and a science and combines art and technology to create monuments. Architecture is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/03/20/architecture/</link>
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		<title>Last Word- The silence of death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raghu Rai
Sunday, May 11 1997

©                            Raghu Rai
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		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/01/14/last-word-the-silence-of-death/</link>
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		<title>Copyright, copyleft and everything in between</title>
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Learning Commons launches &#8216;Copyright, copyleft and everything in between&#8217;
Copyright, copyleft and everything in between&#8217; is a multimedia curriculum on copyright alternatives in South Africa. It covers the social and economic impact of technology from an African perspective, focusing specifically on the origins of copyright and the impact of open source software and open content on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/01/06/copyright-copyleft-and-everything-in-between/</link>
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		<title>Straight cut to reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cambodian director Rithy Panh stresses the importance of the documentary as a platform for discussion and discovery.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/01/03/straight-cut-to-reality/</link>
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		<title>Move Up Or Move Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian IT players need to graduate to high-value R&#038;D work to escape unhealthy competition 
The message is loud and clear. It is time for the Indian information technology (IT) and outsourcing companies to transform. With new geographies rising to claim their share of application development and maintenance market at competitive rates, the best way ahead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/01/03/move-up-or-move-out/</link>
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		<title>Will 2007 be a definitive year for design?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s hope so.
The real value of &#8220;design&#8221; has not quite been realized; I&#8217;d go so far as to say it&#8217;s been limited to or stunted by corporate agendas. Regardless of whether you agree with me or who you blame for this, I&#8217;m sure we all agree that *realizing the full potential of design* must become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2007/01/03/will-2007-be-a-definitive-year-for-design/</link>
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		<title>PHD and Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looked like one more act of indulgence. You sometimes follow uncertainty. There is no sense of discovery, nor a sense of self-control or consciousness to simply follow the speed of thought and the worries attached to it. It seemed that Rao was troubled to find the ideal clarity into the “Design Research”. Something troubled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pravartaka.com/blogs/2006/07/26/phd-and-design-kiran-kulkarni/</link>
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