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	<description>There is much more in life...</description>
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		<title>When the city walked&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 13th: I can barely keep my head upright. The moment the rick. reaches home, I jump out and deliriously unlock the door, run straight and crash on the bed. The brain defies to accept any more impulses and I sink into oblivion. It&#8217;s the first time in twenty four years that I&#8217;ve managed to stay awake all through the night! All through these years sleep was never something that I sacrificed for anything whatsoever. But there was something quite electric in the ambience yesterday that just didn&#8217;t seem to get the grey cells to seek rest. Right from 23:00hrs yesterday to 11:00hrs today, people have been on a mega frenzy here. After all two and a half months of planning and co-ordination was to be put to test today! Hyderabad was to have it&#8217;s first ever social event aimed at raising funds for the underprivileged kids. WalkOn &#8217;09 was planned in-line to the previous walks that were conducted in Bangalore as a fund generation event for various projects that Aashayein foundation anchors. Two months of rigorous planning and tremendous pulse check from the core team gets the 40+ volunteers to churn out one of the most interesting events over time in the foundation. Incessant campaigning in various companies and support from few big shots gets the real undercurrent for the event set. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the response the event received. Close to 40% of registrants for the walk actually turn up right on the D-Day just by....]]></description>
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		<title>This is my uncle Kishan&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An assortment of about fifteen kids are seated in front of me. All supposedly fifth and sixth graders. The syllabus mandates me to read out to them a story and ask them questions based on it. Something akin to the reading comprehension questions that we solve. I set off in my task in reading out a para and asking the one in the third row a very simple question. His poker faced response immediately states he&#8217;s not got a word of what I&#8217;ve been talking. Same applies almost every other kid out here. I break up the sentences now to see if that helps them. Still the same response. I finally check to see if they at least know the individual words in the sentence. Turns out that NONE of them are even able to appreciate the presence of a &#8216;the&#8217; in the sentence! Besides, when asked to translate a statement like &#8211; &#8216;This is my uncle Kishan&#8217; to telugu, I get the weirdest responses imaginable! They do not know the difference between &#8216;Buying&#8217; and &#8216;Going&#8217;! Teaching them to decipher paragraphs is way too optimistic. The next hour or so goes in asking them to echo back just four sentences, asking them to focus on my lip movement and giving them a suitable transliteration. With small role plays I try to engage them to capture the essence of what was being talked about in the book. They soon seem to be liking the whole concept and cheerfully engage each other....]]></description>
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