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		<title>Paradise Lost and Regained: The Common Man Only Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent incident of Saturday, May 4, 2013, a woman street hawker outside the restaurant was beaten by a &#8216;bouncer&#8217; employed at the  popular Paradise Biryani. A few customers got outraged and one brave woman, wrote a blog that went &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/paradise-lost-and-regained-common-man-only-lost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=1258&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise no more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 23:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Reporting Live : For all those living in Hyderabad, India, Paradise hotel is synonymous to biryani and is one of the most visited restaurants in the city. Located in Secunderabad, the hotel was so iconic that it lent &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/paradise-no-more/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=1256&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Public Health System Fails Yet Again: The case of Runa Begum with Hydrocephalus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have already seen the news about Runa Begum, a 17 month old baby girl from Agartala, Tripuara who suffers from Hydrocephalus, medical condition in which fluid accumulates in the brain leading to an abnormally large head circumference. It is &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/indias-public-health-system-fails-yet-again-the-case-of-runa-begum-with-hydrocephalus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=1210&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi Gangrape and Beyond: There is no point separating the &#8216;system&#8217; and &#8216;us&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harsht</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of oversimplification, I would like to summarize that there are two dominant discourses taking shape in the aftermath of the delhi gangrape incident. The first one is blaming poor governance that includes ineffective police,dated laws, social stigma &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/delhi-gangrape-and-beyond-there-is-no-point-separating-the-system-and-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=1196&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fake social media profiles: My own experience with Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harsht</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity of Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read this blog in the economist, stating how many social media fans/ followers etc are actually fake machine generated accounts. The Blog mentions that Mitt Romney gained 17% followers in a day and interestingly, a friend tweeted about Mitt &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fake-social-media-profiles-my-own-experience-with-facebook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=943&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media and The Problem with &#039;Socially Constructed Truths&#039; : Why all Believed that the NASA Picture Was Clicked on Diwali</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Harsht&#039;s Journal of Random Ruminations: India and her diaspora worldwide was excited about Divali, (the festival of lights), and for good reason. A day before Divali,  October 25 2011 3:30 pm CT, I noticed that a map had &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/942/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=942&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do event outcomes affect how we rate their coverage? CNN IBN and US Elections 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media feeds on elections. Counting and results declaration is when news becomes a &#8220;mass audience&#8221; genre, and the US Election results night more globally so is such a mass audience event. As I write, Obama has just been declared victorious. Apart &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/event-outcomes-and-how-we-rate-their-coverage-ibn-and-us-elections-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=928&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook ads impact is just more &#8216;measurable&#8217; than TV ads, not necessarily &#8216;effective&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/facebook-ads-impact-is-just-more-measurable-than-tv-ads-not-necessarily-effective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harsht</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They have been talking for a while about the death of the 30 second commercial. And social media were not the first technologies that inspired such claims.Yet, the size of Facebook with its tightly connected &#8216;anatomy&#8217; has made these claims &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/facebook-ads-impact-is-just-more-measurable-than-tv-ads-not-necessarily-effective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=914&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why mobile Internet in India won&#8217;t boom anytime soon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t we all been hearing that the Internet boom in India is waiting to happen. We will soon get past the tipping point. We just need to overcome a few barriers. So what are these barriers?  About 10 years ago, &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/why-mobile-internet-in-india-wont-boom-anytime-soon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=859&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2001 Northern Grid Failure: When old technologies became new again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian twitter is rife with news about the a power grid failure in Northern India that plunged seven states into darkness at 1 am.  6-7 hrs later there is some hope that authorities may fix something.  They say this &#8230; <a href="http://harsht.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/remembering-the-2001-grid-failure-when-old-technologies-became-new-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=harsht.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9018715&#038;post=866&#038;subd=harsht&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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