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	<title>Cranks Corner</title>
	<link>http://kbalakumar.com</link>
	<description>All is fair in love &#38; laughter</description>
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		<title>Batting for cheer-girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cricket, primarily the shorter versions, has indeed come a long way since the days of early World Cup matches, especially the most memorable one in which Sunil Gavaskar officially slipped  into extreme coma and also drove everyone else into one, but somehow the scorecard showed against his name 36 runs in 60 overs. Some experts, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/03/05/batting-for-cheer-girls/</link>
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		<title>Discovering the animal planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading the latest census numbers that only 1411 tigers were left in India, like you, I too felt like asking: When is the IPL starting? But this is what happens if you feature a serious public interest information mostly as a commercial during cricket telecasts.
Anyway, this 1411 number leads to many disturbing questions, none [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/02/26/discovering-the-animal-planet/</link>
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		<title>The lion among the copycats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever people ask me what’s at the core of good  writing, my unfailing reply is: ‘Creativity.’ And when I say creativity, I  naturally mean that ingenious skill to think out of the box and copy from sources  that people will not notice or have access to.
‘Plagiarise and not get caught’ is what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/02/19/the-lion-among-the-copycats/</link>
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		<title>Romancing the love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is love? This question has been plaguing humankind right from the moment the world came into being, unmindful of the fact that both English and the question mark symbol had not been invented then.
And when an early man fell in love, he didn’t have the easy comfort and convenience of romantically conveying his inner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/02/12/romancing-the-love/</link>
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		<title>A taste of the tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The school examination season is upon us. The BP and anxiety levels are shooting up. For parents, that is.  The children are mercifully cool. But for how long? It&#8217;s only a matter of time before the madness of parents gets to them, too.
To lessen the burden on lessons, here&#8217;s a carefully prepared manual on various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/02/05/a-taste-of-the-tests/</link>
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		<title>Science fiction &amp; science friction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Science has grown thus far because scientists have always told us to ask the right questions about natural phenomena. And scientists have grown so far because we have been asking questions only about natural phenomena and not about man-made ones, including those about the personal riches of many scientists.
If only we had been equally inquisitive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/01/29/science-fiction-science-friction/</link>
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		<title>Lessons of life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of finely honed research and detailed study involving the scientific process called ‘making up’, I have come to the strong conclusion that most parents in India fall under two broad categories:
1. Stupid
2. Idiotic
After all, isn’t stupidity which drives many parents to aggressively push their children into coaching classes for IIT entrance tests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/01/23/lessons-of-life-2/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re like this only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many groups and races, we Tamils are unique and special, especially when you take into consideration the fact that we are the only ones who have knocked on the doors of the court to find out as to when exactly our New Year falls. We are taking the help of Constitution for things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/01/13/were-like-this-only/</link>
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		<title>Dance pe chance!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are any number of ways by which one can make oneself look stupid in public.
God knows that I have attempted almost all of them. From giving grand speeches to an auditorium full of nobody (those in the dais were also comfortably dozing and I had to end the speech by clapping to myself) to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/01/08/dance-pe-chance/</link>
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		<title>Gifting you an idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why most people take a year-end break and go on a vacation to distant places? I am sure you would not have pondered over this poser, as because you have better things to do in life.
But not me. I have a column to fill every week, a task that is usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kbalakumar.com/2010/01/02/gifting-you-an-idea/</link>
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