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	<title>Jyoti&#039;s Musings</title>
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		<title>Paradise Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a Gurgaon resident for close to 17 years. The first 7 years were spent in an apartment that we’d booked way back in our youth with dreams for a ‘clean and green life South of Delhi’ – our apartment builder’s catch phrase to attract young Delhites to this suburban city. The struggle of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/life-in-gurgaon/paradise-lost.html</link>
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		<title>Birding as more than a passing interest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started looking at birds closely about 14 years ago. I can estimate this time somewhat accurately as I still remember my first focused birding walk of that long ago. It was in Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary on a wintery morning when my son, Kabir was just over a year old and we were ill prepared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/life-in-gurgaon/birding-as-more-than-a-passing-interest.html</link>
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		<title>Sindhi Porridge: Bhutt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some food experiences have the ability to transport one back to one&#8217;s childhood. This porridge is one such preparation for me. Going by Kishore’s reaction to it, I can add that even if one hasn’t been connected to it for great many years, when had hot for breakfast on a wintery morning, it acts as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/recipes-n-reviews/sindhi-porridge-bhutt-%e0%a4%ad%e0%a4%a4%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a4.html</link>
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		<title>Spaghetti and Meat Sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an easy meal to put together but one that has required some tweaking over the years. Both Kishore and Kabir enjoy it equally so I keep its ingredients close at hand for those evenings when a non-fussy Italian meal is called for. Over the years, I’ve successfully substituted chicken mince for lamb mince [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/recipes-n-reviews/spaghetti-and-meat-sauce.html</link>
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		<title>Creamy Penne in a Cheese Sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This pasta is one of the quick dinners I fix for Kabir. I prefer to make it when Kishore and I are going out for dinner or when Kishore is outstation and I’m eating something simple fixed by the cook—the reason is the richness of this pasta that he can take in easily but it’d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/recipes-n-reviews/creamy-penne-in-a-cheese-sauce.html</link>
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		<title>Homemade Peanut Butter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got to know about peanut butter as a food item only after meeting Kishore! He loves the stuff. In the early years of our marriage, I’d see bottles of peanut butter coming his way from the family: his Mom would make it by mixing Amul butter with crushed peanuts and cousins travelling to Musoorie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/recipes-n-reviews/homemade-peanut-butter.html</link>
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		<title>Performance review = A continuous feedback and development process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last three years that I’ve managed performance evaluations of support engineers for an IT consulting firm, I’ve been wary of assuming a judgmental stance – either directly or through the feedback process I’ve helped manage. Performance reviews are known to be tedious exercises for all concerned so my objectives for them have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/hrm-2/performance-review-a-continuous-feedback-and-development-process.html</link>
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		<title>Sindhi Kadhi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I’ve heard many generalizations made about Sindhis: that they have ‘aani’ surnames, that they are overly cautious with money, that they look and speak in a certain way and that their Sindhi Kadhi tastes good! Let’s see how much of that applies in my own case: my maiden name was Puri&#8211;a simplified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/recipes-n-reviews/sindhi-kardhi.html</link>
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		<title>Joys of reading on ebookreaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a friend remarked that he still sees paperbooks at our home, and asked what do we enjoy using the most to read books—paperbooks, the iPad, the iPod Touch or the Kindle? My answer was ­­­­the Kindle. I’ve meant to share my joys of using a seemingly unglamourous ebookreader for reading and reasons for choosing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/technology-2/joys-of-reading-on-ebookreaders.html</link>
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		<title>Sindhi Food: Sai Bhaji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a friend’s request, I’ll cover a few Sindhi recipes beginning with Sai Bhaji—a favourite spinach preparation in Sindhi families. Sai in Sindhi means green and Bhaji is vegetable so the dish is simply a green vegetable…but not all green vegetables are called Sai Bhaji in Sindhi cooking, only this one gets that name. Over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/recipes-n-reviews/sindhi-food-sai-bhaji.html</link>
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