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		<title>A Social Trek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 30, 2010. Prema Vasana, a home for differently-abled and abandoned children in Chennai, was awake early with many young eyes waiting for some friends to visit. The children here are well-cared-for by the home, but seldom get an opportunity to go out and enjoy nature. That is exactly what our group of 60+ volunteers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/06/30/a-social-trek/</link>
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		<title>The Chennai Coastline will shine again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 16, 2010. A group of 800 volunteers gathered to clean the beaches of Chennai. It was an unusual sight to see people, most of them IT professionals, with red and green biodegradable plastic bags walking on the beach collecting garbage early Sunday morning. Chennai Coastal Cleanup marked the beginning of an initiative by the Chennai [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/05/29/the-chennai-coastline-will-shine-again/</link>
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		<title>(almost) as good for the rich as for the poor!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As per The World Fact Book, the Gini Coefficient of India in 2004 was 36.8. What does this mean? Gini Coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion, often used to measure income or wealth inequality, i.e. the gap between the rich and the poor. Simply put, a country with a lower Gini Coefficient has more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/04/02/almost-as-good-for-the-rich-as-for-the-poor/</link>
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		<title>That little extra warmth to save a life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One evening, about 2 months ago, I went for an event in Mumbai. I had no idea about what this was about as I was simply accompanying my colleagues. It turned out to be a awareness event about Embrace. By the end of the event I was so impressed by the product, I decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/03/22/that-little-extra-warmth-to-save-a-life/</link>
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		<title>How your favourite gadget is changing the world: Part 2 of 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a continuation of How your favourite gadget is changing the world: Part 1 of 2
Closer home
In India too, the mobile technology is being explored in various social fields. Though the penetration of mobile phones is not very high across India, the mobile still reaches interior rural villages and tribal areas in some states. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/01/30/how-your-favourite-gadget-is-changing-the-world-part-2-of-2/</link>
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		<title>How your favourite gadget is changing the world: Part 1 of 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a regular urbanite like me, to you the mobile phone means just what Priyanka Chopra seems to convey with her idiosyncratic little nod in the Nokia commercial – ‘it’s not just a phone, it’s me’. The ubiquitous device has now been a part of your lifestyle for years. You need it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/01/26/how-your-favourite-gadget-is-changing-the-world-part-1-of-2/</link>
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		<title>Prayatna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Albert Einstein once said that insanity is defined as trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. He probably said this in context of some scientific experiment, but this principle applies to almost every aspect of life, including primary education for children.
When children don&#8217;t perform well at school, most of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/11/15/prayatna/</link>
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		<title>A Silent Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I received a random e-mail  forward from a friend that for some reason I read (I usually just delete  forwards). That’s where I heard about the Yatra and today, more than  one year after that mail, I am glad I read it. Being a participant on  the Tata Jagriti [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/10/30/a-silent-change/</link>
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		<title>The Colours of Joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier article, we had spoken about the huge potential for person-to-person lending in India and how DhanaX is tapping into this potential. Rang De is another organization working in this field. While DhanaX is a social business entrepreneurship, Rang De is a not-for-profit organization: this translates into a direct reduction in the interest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/10/04/the-colours-of-joy/</link>
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		<title>Conversations with an Auto Rickshaw Driver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many little details that rush to the head and I can&#8217;t figure out where to begin. I start to feel like an eighth grader struggling with a character sketch of the protagonist of a Munshi Premchand story. My impression of Basanth is rather like one of those characters, simple with an uncanny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/09/19/conversations-with-an-auto-rickshaw-driver/</link>
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