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		<title>Reflections on our Republic Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we finished our weekly multidisciplinary meeting on The Republic day of India (which is also Australia Day) I asked the meaning of “Proletariat” to one of the participants. Being a non-native English speaker he did not know the meaning of this word. What does Republic Day of India mean to the millions of Diaspora? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1223&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A book in Devnagri Script-Exploring links and memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internal and external immigrants are known to have reading groups which help them foster a sense of identity and security. A book in Devanagri script Last meeting, Dr.Bachchoo Singh brought a Gita in Devanagri script, printed at Gita Press, Gorakhpur. “It was given to me by Dr.Gaur, the anatomy teacher at the University who had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1213&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Idea-Bad Idea</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2012/01/12/good-idea-bad-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolving a multidisciplinary approach was one of the good ideas a colleague discussed. The Multidisciplinary meeting Discussion theme-What was my best and worst idea. Last week we had discussed the experiences of a Radiology Chair who reflected on how tolerating the disruptive behavior of a celebrated Physician scientist harmed his department. http://prashantbhatt.com/2012/01/05/preview-trg-meeting-topics-and-themes/ The links between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1193&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things said and unsaid</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2012/01/06/things-said-and-unsaid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essential part of exploration of thoughts and ideas is to sift at subtler meanings , to see what is left unsaid. In preview blog of the meeting of Tripoli Reading Group (TRG) http://prashantbhatt.com/2012/01/05/preview-trg-meeting-topics-and-themes/ we had mused on the words of Vaclav Havel. Havel was one of the prominent thinkers who oversaw the transitions in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1187&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preview-TRG meeting topics and themes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year!  Meeting 1_2012 To buttress our understanding we are trying to go into specifics of meanings. Gita Readings:Dictionary project :Meanings of words from scriptures Sankhya Yoga- System of self-realization, primary emphasis is laid on the direct perception of the Universal self through constant meditation. Parth     Etymologically-Son of Pritha.In Mahabharata, “Pritha” is one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1174&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tripoli reading group-Year end meeting</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2011/12/30/tripoli-reading-group-year-end-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picking up the threads, a small gathering of the TRG met and  read out some maps, articles, notes ranging from Philosophy to Medicine. Remembering some conversations and inspirations. The Tripoli Reading group is inspired by a veteran educator who taught some lessons on how to learn from the Subaltern. “Is the medical refugee the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1167&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year end diary</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2011/12/23/year-end-diary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a day without a line, advised the older Pliny I have been a regular diarist since 1983. Year end diary “He is not courageous, but there was no flight out, and he does not like to go by land or sea,” one friend summarized this year as we recalled the days of uprising-the failed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1095&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for alternative perspectives</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2011/12/17/searching-for-alternative-perspectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Searching for alternative perspectives and ways of looking at things. Feeling out of place Feeling out of place or unwanted or not part of the organization was what one of the administrators made to some of my colleagues feel after they weathered the journey back, leaving family and friends.  Seeking to  lessen the hurt, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reunions and musings</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2011/12/15/reunions-and-musings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I do the right thing? This is the question which many who faced the situation in Libya ask themselves. I have met people who stayed behind and others who fled the conflict. Having a reunion with some of them in the past few days was an interesting exercise. To be, is to be related. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for meaning,role models and tranquillity</title>
		<link>http://prashantbhatt.com/2011/12/09/searching-for-meaningrole-models-and-tranquillity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is tranquillity? Often the rituals that are enjoined in scriptures refer to some material gains , and it disturbs the mind. Can one be tranquil in such circumstances?Whatever our assertions and reasons we have to admit to the reality of us being Economic migrant workers who have left their homeland in search of better prospects. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prashantbhatt.com&amp;blog=4470934&amp;post=1039&amp;subd=prashantbhatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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