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		<title>Concentric Circles of Pain</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/mind-tides/concentric-circles-of-pain</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is being long that I came back to my blog to write something. I was shocked and in trauma as I lost my father 3 weeks back. I was in deep pain when a friend wrote to me and made me think of how we take pains and how we can get relieved of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My days at Terminal 4</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/mind-tides/my-days-at-terminal-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 14:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 10 am EST 31st May 2010 here at JFK International Airport, NY. I am sitting in a telephone booth and typing this. I am here at Terminal 4 since 29th May. I never thought in my life that I would spend 2 nights and two days in an airport terminal and still counting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outbound vs Inbound Marketing</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/outbound-vs-inbound-marketing</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 20:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On an average I receive 10 phone calls, 105 emails daily regarding various services. These calls and emails are nothing but marketing efforts made by various companies. But for me, these are spams. There is very less likely chances that I would entertain or get across an email or call that interests me.
This is what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Alexa Ranking</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/improve-alexa-ranking</link>
		<comments>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/improve-alexa-ranking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 03:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is in continuation to the previous post &#8211; Does Alexa Ranking impact your advertising decisions?
A series of experiments with my blog&#8217;s Alexa ranking proved even further that we cannot rely on the it for advertising decisions. My rank when I started looking at Alexa 20 days back was &#8211; 21,863,014 and today it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Alexa ranking impact your advertising decisions?</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/does-alexa-ranking-impact-your-advertising-decisions-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to one of my friend who is also a budding entrepreneur about web marketing strategies. He told me about Alexa rankings (www.alexa.com) and said that he looks at those ranking before deciding to advertise on a website. I was curious to know about my own ranking on Alexa but not to propose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agony of a Hindi Speaking Average Everyday Indian</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/mind-tides/agony-of-a-hindi-speaking-average-everyday-indian</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime back, I came to know from a friend that constitution does not have anything specific that makes us identify that Hindi is our national language. But Hindi is indeed spoken by majority of people in India. At least it makes us feel from the same country here in New York. So shall we call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Rules</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/motivational/breaking-rules</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the school they taught me to follow the rules; in the university, they said, “Rules are meant to be broken!” Believe me, since my first day at the school, I have been breaking rules and I strongly propagate that you should try and break rules…
Rules evolve when a conclusion of an experiment, not necessarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Education System &#8211; Who is to blame?</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/mind-tides/indian-education-system</link>
		<comments>http://amargautam.com/mind-tides/indian-education-system#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mind-Tides]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amargautam.com/?p=392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I happened to visit a couple of colleges and universities in India for an industry-university connect program. I was very excited as this was the first time I was about to visit any university since the time I graduated and became a full time software professional.
I had a lots of expectation! During my times, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you need reminders?</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/narration/do-you-need-reminders</link>
		<comments>http://amargautam.com/narration/do-you-need-reminders#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Narration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timepass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you ask a girl to remind you something, this is what happens. The best part is she remembers that there was something to be reminded.

Beware if you have this habit of asking your girl friend or wife to send reminder mails.
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		<title>My Nephew&#8217;s First Ever Interview</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/narration/my-nephew-interviewed</link>
		<comments>http://amargautam.com/narration/my-nephew-interviewed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Narration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Newphew recently turned 3 and was ready to go to school. As a norm in Delhi, kids are interviewed in various schools. So here is what one of the interview looked like -
Question 1. [Teacher shows a picture of a leaf ] What is this?
Answer : [The moment he saw, he shouted at her.......] LEAF(What [...]]]></description>
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