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		<title>A Contemplative Testament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soon reaching my 88th birthday, I realise that it has been a long journey through life.  No doubt it has had high moments of considerable achievements in various fields which seemed beyond credibility, but there were also low points of physical and mental pains sustained over many longer years than imaginable but met with fortitude [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=30</link>
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		<title>THE PERPETUAL STRUGGLE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Jaipur terrorist blasts have brought on the usual recriminations, accusations and counter-accusations, the scoring of points, the utter helplessness and renewed assurances of strong action, the ruthless pursuit and punishment of the guilty.  But all this misses the fundamental and basic point.  Violence is the cardinal motivation of all living things in the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>THE RENAISSANCE OF THE ASIAN IDENTITY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the islands of Japan in the Far East striding across a wide swath or chain of Manchuria, Korea, Mongolia, China and the rolling steppes of Central Asia, carrying with it island clusters, archipelagoes, peninsulas &#8211; India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indo-China, the Philippines and north-westwards through Afghanistan, Iran, numerous other states and territories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=28</link>
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		<title>BACK TO THE FUTURE
BACK TO THE FUTURE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about twenty years ago, a fantasy film called “Back to the future” made quite an unexpected hit.  Unexpected, because it was what was described as a light-hearted twilight zone fantasy which had nothing to it but seemed to interest audiences world-wide.  I did not see it but the title always intrigued me.  What could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>TOWARD A CONFIDENT  FUTURE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no time like the present to make a balance sheet of our gains and losses, our victories and defeats, of our dreams and their fulfillment, and our vision of the times ahead.  And since the present is always with us this exercise of evaluation is a never-ending one.  The result is that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>MODIPHOBIA TO MODIPHORIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What transformations politics and public life can bring about!  And in democracies particularly.  Leaders once reviled, jeered at and abused become heroes and icons.  Leaders once hero-worshipped end up defamed, defiled and denigrated.  Some rare souls have the privilege of being a pendulum swinging from one side to another, and getting away with it!
We have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=25</link>
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		<title>NOT THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the idealistic, visionary but innocent souls who had successfully won the freedom of India, though at the bitter and horrifying cost of Partition, set about to fashion a new land they had little idea of how the world would change beyond the most fantastic imagination of science fiction writers and other more practical persons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=24</link>
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		<title>INDIA-CHINA : VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relations with China have always been at the forefront of our foreign policy.  No need to emphasise that they have had highs and lows.  But in the overall course they have fluctuated between friendship (rather exaggerated) and hostility (not less exaggerated).  In recent times they have had an eerie inexplicable zig-zag path [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=23</link>
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		<title>COALITION DHARMA AND DRAMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing that is painfully obvious it is that coalition dharma is nothing but drama &#8211; in fact, just empty, negative melodrama.  When people talk of the coalition era which has come to stay in India&#8217;s politics and polity they are talking too hastily on ill-founded presumptions and suppositions.  These are compounded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>THE CERTAIN UNCERTAINTY OF DIWALI AND SUCH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The certainty of the weather man is well-known and consequently as uncertain as the weather itself.  The vagueness of the meteorologist is as vague as the astrologist.  When the meteorologist says it is likely to be overcast and  rainy in some area, you can be sure it will be clear and sunny. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindwanderings.com/?p=21</link>
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