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		<title>Not another brick in the wall&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are back, after a hiatus! When the British left the country, India had a literacy rate of about 12%. Though much progress has been made since and, as per the National Survey, the literacy rate has climbed to about 65% by 2001, India is still way below the world average of 85%. It accounts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2010/11/01/not-another-brick-in-the-wall/</link>
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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>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. [...]]]></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>Tuberculosis detection with a chip&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Weissleder, from Harvard Medical College, has developed magnetic nano particles that can identify tuberculosis-causing bacteria in sputum. This has made it possible to diagnose tuberculosis in half an hour. The traditional method for diagnosis takes about two weeks, as the bacteria is first spotted in sputum under the microscope, and then the suspect samples [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/08/26/tuberculosis-detection-with-a-chip/</link>
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		<title>Make husk while the sun shines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of the village, or &#8216;gram&#8217; forms the core of India. Over seventy percent of her population is rural. There are more than half a million villages across the country, as opposed to five thousand or so urban settlements. And still many of us, such as me, have no direct experience of life in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/08/10/make-husk-while-the-sun-shines/</link>
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		<title>Goonj</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posting on behalf of Divya Varadarajan. GOONJ, formed a decade ago, is an initiative to provide basic amenities to far flung villages by turning one&#8217;s wastage to another&#8217;s resource. The &#8220;goonj&#8221; of this organization is spread over twenty states in India. As of today, it has a lot of good will work to its name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/07/15/goonj/</link>
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		<title>Read along with the music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, waking up early on a Sunday morning was purely for a single purpose – to watch Rangoli. A song compilation feature on Doordarshan (DD), Rangoli, apart from the legendary Chitrahar was the only way to catch up with Bollywood hits on TV in those days. Though many of us have moved onto 24&#215;7 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/07/06/read-along-with-the-music/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Playback Time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are hundreds of NGOs working with thousands of volunteers and employees enabling millions of people in need. Physically, mentally challenged, destitute women, children, juvenile homes, old age homes and all those special places where the socially-different people are taken care of. They get their share of money, food and things they need to sustain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2009/06/16/its-play-time/</link>
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		<title>Cycling on a Rickshaw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first picture that comes to my mind when I hear &#8220;cycling&#8221; is of Tour-de-France where hundreds of cyclists pedal hard with heads down but only to be beaten by Lance Armstrong. His surname always made me wonder why it is not Legstrong. Now that he has hung his boots and bike, we could see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arewemad.net/2008/05/17/cycling-on-a-rickshaw/</link>
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