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		<title>Break out of old patronage networks</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/21/break-out-of-old-patronage-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congress&#8217; coming to power on such a large wave of victory signals the need for a shift to a new kind of politics, says Suhit Sen, in the Indian Express. It&#8217;s made a good start but to contribute to the modernisation of politics, it needs to do more than change dynastic rule. So how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=528&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go easy with the family silver</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/14/go-easy-with-the-family-silver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among other mistakes that the BJP made in 2004, their sale of public sector assets to a handful of private companies was a prize plunder blunder, says Siddharth Varadarajan. But whether or not there was collusion between the NDA and the sale of units such as Modern Foods, BALCO and so on, in the public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=510&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How India must change if it is to be an advanced economy</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/11/how-india-must-change-if-it-is-to-be-an-advanced-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growth rates, political systems, reforms and the China Question: Financial Times&#8217; Martin Wolf weighs in on the good news for India and has some suggestions on how to prolong the good times. What will the world economy &#8211; indeed, the world &#8211; look like after the financial crisis is over? Will this prove to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=503&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing a line under poverty in India</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/10/drawing-a-line-under-poverty-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congress government has long been acknowledged as a government for the &#8216;aam admi&#8217;, but how do we understand poverty alleviation schemes and the basis on which they have been constructed? In this article, the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s New Delhi Bureau Chief Paul Beckett examines what poor people need and how those needs might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=501&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIG B(ORE)</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/06/big-bore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-By SANJAY JHA You have to just look a few centimeters above your regular vision when driving down , and you will see a galaxy of smart-suited oddballs interspersed with a few women in Prada-like executive dressing standing in a well choreographed semi-circle , looking down at you with the cocky condescension of experts who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=493&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nilekani&#8217;s appointment is nothing new&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/29/nilekanis-appointment-is-nothing-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; because the UPA has already been tapping civil society for talent and experience that can be lent to government and now they&#8217;re extending this to the corporate world, says Anil Padmanabhan in his MINT column: It is important because it takes forward a trend that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had initiated from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=471&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singh&#8217;s 100-day plan to revolutionize India</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/18/singhs-100-day-plan-to-revolutionize-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decisive victory has PM Manmohan Singh headed straight for the jugular of antiquated policies, so to speak, in an attempt to choke off their air supply. Infusing fresh breath into Indian politics with reforms and new schemes designed to ensure transparency and distribute wealth, PM Singh is being ambitious, and he may well be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=444&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The job has just begun</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/15/the-job-has-just-begun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN-IBN&#8217;s indubitable Sagarika Ghose rightly points out that the bastions of what was considered Important For The Nation are being overthrown. What&#8217;s considered &#8220;important&#8221; isn&#8217;t just restricted to Defence and Foreign Affairs anymore: top politicians are being given portfolios such as Environment and Forests, Health and Rural Affairs. Today heavyweight male politicians head ministries that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=426&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Muslims expect from the UPA</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/13/what-muslims-expect-from-the-upa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although there was a certain amount of disappointment with the Congress Party before the elections, large numbers of the Muslim community voted in favour of the hand symbol and now with the majority verdict comes the expectations&#8230; The education sector in cities where the Muslims are in considerable numbers is worse, P K Abdul Aziz, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=413&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Revolutionary</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/10/the-quiet-revolutionary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek celebrates Rahul Gandhi and takes a look at his ideas and his politics. Rahul&#8217;s current views on the economy seem to owe to these tours. Broadly speaking, he is pro-market, owing in part to his time at Monitor, but he insists that growth should provide opportunities for the poor. &#8220;What is the difference between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=400&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UPA 2.0</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/05/upa-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UPA government is following an Obama model to be big on transparency, accountability and access. Annual reports to the people and an independent evaluator assessing flagship programmes are all on the cards. The open source approach, we know, has won the argument. A system that is open to scrutiny and feedback is bound to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=378&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the speaker is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/04/and-the-speaker-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Meira Kumar who&#8217;s making the news world-wide, for being the first woman Speaker of the House, and a Dalit, but is no stranger to Indian politics. Indians remember her as Jagjiwan Ram&#8217;s daughter, an IFS officer and former Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment. A profile by Pankaj Vohra in the Hindustan Times: It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=373&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patience in the trenches</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/01/patience-in-the-trenches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dignified young man, is how Tehelka&#8217;s Executive Editor Shoma Chaudhury describes him. Quiet, thoughtful, measured and at the epicenter of a &#8220;whirlwind of approval&#8221;. He was the party&#8217;s star campaigner and now his party is reaping the dividend of his measured decisions &#8211; to invest in the party&#8217;s future, encourage real talent identified by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=367&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UPA&#8217;s challenge: rural government reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media have gone overboard in ascribing the election victory to schemes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, says Mihir Shah. These ascriptions might erroneously suggest new directions for Government, he says, and goes on to examine the issue of rural reform. A serious problem created by facile electoral analyses is that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=342&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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