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		<title>The Ghost, The PM, The Memoirs and the other PM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally managed to see The Ghost Writer last night. Based on the Robert Harris book The Ghost. The move was good and kept you on your toes. It was almost faithful to the book. It helps to have the author pen the screenplay as well.
The Ghost was released when I was living in London [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suggest a title for my blogsite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am looking to find a suitable title/name for my blogsite. &#8220;A Displaced Drongo&#8221; is the working title and definitely not a permanent fixture. An inside joke from the Berlin-based design team.
Feel free to make some creative suggestions. Send me an eMail. I will post some of the suggestions below for comment.
Some of the suggestions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Agenda: How Do Financially Challenged Governments Deliver Policies for Reform and the Future?
Arup, Sydney
(with Access Economics and the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia)
25 August 2010
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		<title>World Humanitarian Day</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/world-humanitarian-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is World Humanitarian Day today. A day dedicated to the protection of the world&#8217;s humanitarians, working in both conflict zones and zones of peace.

The below video from the United Nations (made by good friend, David) sums up the day:



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		<title>Compulsory Helmets</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/compulsory-helmets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previously I made mention of the helmet laws in Australia, and how I agree with them, given how poorly motorists drive. Today, a health expert is calling for the abolishment of these very laws. There was a protest against the laws last month in Melbourne.
I am not too sure I agree with him, just yet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Backpacker to Expatriate</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/from-backpacker-to-expatriate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Backpacker to Expatriate: Reflections on global travel, career and humanitarianism
 The University of Sydney and the Sydney University Red Cross Society, Sydney
16 August 2010
As part of  Humanitarian Week, 16-19 August at the University of Sydney
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		<title>The Election We Had To Have</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/the-election-we-had-to-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Campaigns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that &#8216;where there is no vision, the people perish&#8217;. I would argue that where there is no passion, the politicians perish.
There has been much discussion about the lack of any grand vision in the current Australian Federal Election campaign. It is so uninspiring, unmotivating and uninteresting that the only reason people will vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Gets Biking</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/london-gets-biking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Netherlands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From late last month, London got its own Cycle Hire Scheme. I wrote about my experiences using the one in Paris previously. Since then I have also used a similar scheme in Stockholm, Trondheim, and seen it in use in Washington DC. I love cycling and the verb is synonyms with The Netherlands.
My previous posts (and here) recount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Ayatollah. Leave those kids alone!</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/hey-ayatollah-leave-those-kids-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I heard and saw this piece on the BBC World Service about Blurred Vision. A Toronto-based band whose cover of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, is being interpreted as a protest against Iran’s government. The band is made of up two brothers whose family fled Iran in the 1980s. In an interview with The Independent the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Mr President</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/happy-birthday-mr-president/</link>
		<comments>http://shanmugan.com/happy-birthday-mr-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politicians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, President Barrack Obama of the United States celebrates his 49th birthday. He shares his birthday with some notable historical figures. From the British Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the Swedish diplomat and humanitarian, Raoul Wallenberg.
Who would have thought that the child born on the 4th of August 1961, would overcome the social barriers, of that [...]]]></description>
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