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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Society</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Entrepreneur on Java and Web 2.0</description>
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		<title>Wish You Happy Holi / Dol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holi is the festival of radiance, colors and usher in spring. I wish you all a happy Holi / Dol (as we Bengalis say) and hope that you all remain safe (no colors in eye).
Holi / Dol is also used as an occasion for old foes to come together and forget their feuds, at least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wish-you-happy-holi-dol/</link>
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		<title>8 Tips for Grooms Guardians in Arranging Bengali Boubhat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am just back from a Bengali wedding and I am writing this post after gulping some super strong antacid. I had a bad experience. My tips for groom's guardians:
1. Please spend sometime to greet people and do that sincerely. We all know it is just courtesy and you may not even like to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/8-tips-for-grooms-guardians-in-arranging-bengali-boubhat/</link>
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		<title>An Indian Wedding&#8230; &#8220;What do you do&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was an interesting experience. I met with many first-cousins and other relatives who are supposed to be close to me, but this is the first time I am seeing them, ever. Others I am seeing after 16-20 years. I wasn't happy, I wasn't sad either. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-indian-wedding-what-do-you-do/</link>
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		<title>MySpace Photo Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In MySpace on average (based on sample size of 2071208 images) 15 photos are uploaded per user. Considering only users who have at least one or more photos uploaded, they have on average uploaded a staggering 32 photos. 
MySpace contains at least 289604263 users at the time of this writing. That gives an estimated 4.2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-photo-statistics/</link>
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		<title>9 Popular Social Networking Sites: Public Profile on LinkedIn, Pownce, Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut, MySpace &#038; Ryze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites:

LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network. Also was able to find some old friends.

Pownce - Just started&#8230;

Orkut (requires free Orkut account) - Looks more like a dating network, similar to Friendster.

Ryze - I was one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/social-networking-my-public-profile-on-linkedin-pownce-facebook-friendster-hi5/</link>
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		<title>IPC 498a: No. 1 Reason Why Indian Men Shouldn&#8217;t Marry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IPC 498a Indian Penal Code 498a makes it super easy for any wife to systematically harass  and make life miserable for her husband and in-laws, including but not limited to jail time and routine torture by cops. All she has to do is file a FIR (first information report) at the local police station, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/no-1-reason-why-indian-men-shouldnt-marry/</link>
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		<title>Happy Indian Independence Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish all Indians, in India and abroad, a happy Independence day on its 60th anniversary. I hope it heralds the beginning of ongoing prosperity and happiness for the whole country. May the country live upto its glorious past and may we even excel it.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/happy-indian-independence-day/</link>
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		<title>The Right To Kill &#038; The Right To Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently started exploring a rather alarming phenomenon, which was there all along but has very recently been highlighted to me. Let's say a person has been attacked by members of a particular community. The normal reaction I would have expected is general condemnation of the attack even from the members of the same community. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-right-to-kill-the-right-to-live/</link>
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		<title>This Week In India: Sorrow and Joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waterlogged streets and flooded homes everywhere in Kolkata thanks to inept Kolkata Municipal Corporation and heavy rains last few days. Personally we haven't suffered.
BSNL Dataone Broadband is proving to the one hell of a crappy broadband provider and to boot it comes with virtually non-existent support. Last week including today my  upload speed is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/this-week-in-india-sorrow-and-joy/</link>
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		<title>Is MySpace Safe? &#8230; 162 Sex Offenders From Mississippi Alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace.
"MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood. "We are working with MySpace to improve and expand the effectiveness of protections for children under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/162-mississippi-sex-offenders-in-myspaceis-myspace-safe/</link>
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