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	<description>An Author, Management Guru and Public Intellectual</description>
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		<title>Twelve city book tour in USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I shall be coming to America this fall. What brings me over is a twelve city book tour by Oxford University Press, who are publishing my new book, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma. I would genuinely like to meet my former collegues (as I have missed most of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=462</link>
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		<title>Stranger At Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English bespeaks progress. India’s youth is much the worse without it. Our obsession with the English language has served us brilliantly. It has kept us united as a nation; it has contributed significantly to the social mobility of Indians; it has been a major factor in our recent success in the global economy.  One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=457</link>
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		<title>Dharma in the public place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite perfect in the world and certainly not human beings, as the Mahabharata reminds us. Our tendency to latch on to bad news at the expense of good news is unexcelled, and we tend to lose all balance in our judgements and miss out on the small victories of the day. Lalit Modi, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=459</link>
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		<title>Ayn Rand and I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ayn Rand and the world she made, Anne C. Heller, Tranquebar Press, Chennai, 2010,567 pages, Rs 495, ISBN 978 93 80658 01 8. It is not easy to connect a writer’s life with her ideology.  Most biographers assume that there is an obvious and intimate connection and get on breezily with the job. Too often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=454</link>
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		<title>On moral luck and human vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Mumbai on that December night in 1984 when tragedy struck in Bhopal. I was head of an American multinational’s Indian subsidiary, a company not unlike Union Carbide, whose managing director also happened to be my friend. We were among a few foreign companies that had stayed on and had toughened under the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=451</link>
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		<title>Private Affluence, Public Squalor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Recently on Karan Thapar’s program on television, a ‘stylish left wing’ commentator (SLW for short, a useful acronym that I owe to Saubhik Chakrabarti) said with a straight face that our troubles with the Maoists originated in our neo-liberal economic model and our post-1991obsession with growth. She then went on to lecture us about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=447</link>
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		<title>IPL and Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The recently concluded Indian Premier League (IPL) has been a non-stop party that lasted for six weeks to which everyone was invited provided you wanted to have fun. It brought magical nights to millions across India, a respite from their drab, desperate lives. It was filled to the brim with desire&#8211;for cricket and Bollywood, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=444</link>
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		<title>Don’t close down budget schools, give them graded recognition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unrecognised private schools, which cater to the poor in the slums and villages of India, have been under threat for a long time. With the passage of the Right to Education Act the threat is now real. The new law specifically calls for these schools to be closed or recognized within three years. In 2008, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=442</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs and Eggplant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OPINION ASI A MARCH 8, 2010, 2:06 P.M. ET Entrepreneurs and Eggplant A case study in how India&#8217;s government is the main obstacle to economic progress. By GURCHARAN DAS New Delhi Risk is built into capitalism because the rewards of investment arrive in the future. Risk usually comes from the unknown responses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=431</link>
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		<title>Remember, the money doesn’t belong to you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a lunch party in Delhi recently I was confronted by a woman in a pink sari who effectively pinned me down while she lectured to me on the importance of corporate social responsibility. No one came to my rescue for ten minutes and I began to fret. I wondered how to get away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gurcharandas.org/?p=429</link>
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