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	<title>With the Left and the Right &#187; Food for thought</title>
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	<description>There is much more in life...</description>
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		<title>This is my uncle Kishan&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2009/06/this-is-my-uncle-kishan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aashayein foundation]]></category>
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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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		<title>Golden drops&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2009/01/charitywater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charity water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charitywater India]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a school kid, I was taught 70% of Earth is water. It takes me 23years to learn that 97.5% of that is saltwater. What&#8217;s your Salary?]]></description>
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		<title>Gyan de la Spiky</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/10/gyan-de-la-spiky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food for thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rambles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make Life interesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting goals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been just one week that I&#8217;ve got back to Hyderabad after my six months stay at Pune and I&#8217;m still struggling to cope with boredom. My body&#8217;s sort of got so fine tuned to an active lifestyle that sitting in front of the computer once I&#8217;m back home is something that I&#8217;d last prefer to do. But then that is all that I&#8217;m left to do, at least till I chalk out a few plans to get myself to rebound again. Looking back I realise that one centric reason, why things were much interesting then. Every weekday I used to head to office planning how I&#8217;d best spend the day so as to enjoy that weekend to the fullest. For the most part of it , it was visiting a new place or raising the bar to do a better or higher grade trek. I was sure, there was always something different in store for me that coming weekend. That only pushed me harder to give my best at work during the weekdays so as to avoid any last minute goof ups. &#8216;You work two days a week and take rest the remaining five days&#8216; is what Anmol once commented on my passion for trekking. I now realise how true he was! On the brighter side, There&#8217;re three important yet simple learnings that I&#8217;ve gained from my Pune experience - It&#8217;s not how long you live that is important. It&#8217;s how well you live it is all that matters.....]]></description>
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		<title>Those little bucks!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/09/those-little-bucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One another interesting article! The Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also Japan exports far more than it imports. They have an annual trade surplus of over $100 billion, yet Japanese economy is considered weak, even collapsing. Americans save little. Also US import more than it exports. Has an annual trade deficit of over $400 billion. Yet, the American economy is considered strong and trusted to get stronger. But where from do Americans get money to spend? They borrow from Japan, China, and even India. Virtually others save for the US to spend. Global savings are mostly invested in US, in dollars. India itself keeps its foreign currency assets of over $50 billions in US securities. China has sunk over $160 billion in US securities. Japan&#8217;s stakes in US securities is in trillions. Result: The US has taken over $5 trillion from the world. So, as the world saves for the US, Americans spend freely. Today, to keep the US consumption going, that is for the US economy to work, the countries have to remit $180 billion every quarter that is $2 billion a day to the US! Otherwise the US economy would go for a sick. So will the global economy. The result will be no different if US consumers begin consuming less. A Chinese economist asked a neat question. Who has invested more, US in China, or China in US? The US has invested in China less than half of what China has invested in....]]></description>
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		<title>In Quest of a visionary life!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/06/in-quest-of-a-visionary-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food for thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schools for visually challenged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snehankit Pune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visually challenged]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Purushotam skews his head up and looks at the monitor. I&#8217;m reminded of the frequent mails that we get regarding body posture while sitting in front of the workstation. The 45 degree look down angle at the monitor cannot be applied in this case. The plastic chair doesn&#8217;t help much either. Remotely bothered he hits the arrow key and navigates the word document. He is almost through with the test on Basic ‘C&#8217;. Moments later he hints he&#8217;s completed the test. A few corrections are done and a jubilant Purushotam walks out with his mother&#8217;s help towards the door. Uttam seated a bit away smiles looking at the table. I wonder what his mind is concocting in the vast expanse. I introduce myself and sit beside him. He&#8217;s faster than me in socializing. A few minutes and we&#8217;re discussing almost everything under the sun. Soon we strike a deal &#8211; He teaches me Marathi and I teach him English. Thoughts fly by his mouth in Hindi/Marathi but when it comes to English, he&#8217;s blacked out. Soon Shekar, Baaji rao and Preeti join the conversation. Shekar, BaajiRao and Uttam are pursuing their 12th grade at Fergusons and Garware College. Preeti has completed her MA in English and currently plans to do her M.Phil. Biswajeet and Aditya soon join us after having a quick chat with Purushotam&#8217;s Mom. Suddenly the topic of Indian independence pops up. When asked what they feel about the independence movement, Shekar is prompt in responding &#8211; India....]]></description>
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		<title>Just one morsel for that hungry soul!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/04/just-one-morsel-for-that-hungry-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food for thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one square meal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarcity of food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five days back, our Bai ditched us for a few days and left for her native. Lazy bums at times that we are, Adi and I drove down to a close by restaurant for dinner. We&#8217;d heard of this place called &#8216;Rasoi Ghar&#8217; quite some time back and just thought of giving it a shot. Rasoi ghar was just a few hundred yards from the usual place where we&#8217;ve been having dinner for the past few days. So we just walked in and gave the order.  All of a sudden this particular poster caught my attention. Need I say a word more? And mind you..This was just a normal shop by the roadside&#8230; Next time you&#8217;re on your dining table and everytime you say that &#8216;Yuck&#8217; when you taste something not so tasty hope you&#8217;ll  recollect this poster !! Hat&#8217;s off to the owner of Rasoi Ghar!]]></description>
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		<title>Smell your enemy!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/03/smell-your-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olfactory senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Session blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team spirit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We keep having these so called Personality Development sessions quite frequently at my workplace. Not that it&#8217;s a compulsion , but I see to it that I attend most of these. The main reason being, it so happens that the person delivering the address, mostly is someone who&#8217;s experienced in a particular field or way too elder to me. More than the topic, I majorly be there to get to understand and see how he/she expresses his/her thoughts in that timespan. Well, there have been quite a few instances when I got knocked off just few minutes into the session and there have been a couple of those beautiful sessions wherein I&#8217;ve got deeply involved. Here comes the factor of how you relate to the topic in hand and how effectively the person communicates it to you; but before we go further I&#8217;d rather let you know that this post is not about effective communication, but just a light cast on how attending these sessions may help you from a different aspect and get you know facts that you&#8217;d be totally oblivious of. A few days back I needed some information on organizing adventure activities, so I&#8217;d contacted a person by name Sandeep. Sandeep&#8217;s been into native adventure stuff for more than fifteen years now and besides organizing these events he&#8217;s one of the lead anchors for a flagship personality development organisation. He keeps giving sessions on Team management and Effective communication skills now and then and it is one....]]></description>
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