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			<title>Home is the new Maggi</title>
			<description>Not-anymore-10-min-delivery: But it&amp;rsquo;snot possibleA-reputed-builder: It isNot-anymore-10-min-delivery: Weare primarily into FMCG products with occasional foray into once a while buy products(usually premium ones)A-reputed-builder: What&amp;rsquo;s morepremium than a home?Not..</description>
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			<title>The AI World</title>
			<description>The age of AI has replaced theage of humans. There were elaborate dreams - the humanization of the human,elimination of the dreg work, and more of the same blah blah&amp;hellip; We were going backto the feudal society; we were the landlords and Agentic AI bots the slaves.We are a very na&amp;iuml;..</description>
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			<title>The Corporate 'Poke'-Innovation</title>
			<description>Key to innovation lies in desperation.You need to be desperate to innovate. Example in point, The World Wars.How do you bring this desperationin the corporate culture? It can&amp;rsquo;t be overt. Employee well-being is our topmostpriority right after customer well-being which obviously is jus..</description>
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			<title>Immortality feat. Bureaucracy</title>
			<description>What is &amp;ldquo;Immortality&amp;rdquo;? Simple,getting a road named after you. But not just any road. A busy road.You may deem it to be obvious.But it isn&amp;rsquo;t. I assure you. There is a secret ingredient which is missing. Withoutwhich immortality is not possible.See, the immortality is n..</description>
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			<title>The Women CEO</title>
			<description>Reporter: Mr. X, I would like totake this opportunity to congratulate on your newfound fame.Mr. X: Thank You.Reporter: Such fame wasunimaginable in the aftermath of the &amp;ldquo;Equality Wars of 2080s&amp;rdquo;. In the ensuingcentury, you have gone from an outcast to a probable Nobel Laurea..</description>
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			<title>The GDP Growth Jungle</title>
			<description>The farts were getting frequenterand louder. But red was unrelenting. It was the turbulent kind so was slightlymore apparent than the laminar one. Red turned into green and with a suddenjerk amidst loud blaring of horns, the mechanical animals were off. And the laminarfarts were back.Wav..</description>
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			<title>The &amp;#2346;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2342;-onomy</title>
			<description>&amp;#2361;&amp;#2350;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2352;&amp;#2375;&amp;#2311;&amp;#2340;&amp;#2367;&amp;#2361;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2360; &amp;#2325;&amp;#2375; &amp;#2319;&amp;#2325; &amp;#2350;&amp;#2361;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2344;&amp;#2361;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2360;&amp;#2381;&amp;#2351; &amp;#2309;&amp;#2349;&amp;#2367;&amp;#2344;&amp;#2375;&amp;#2340;&amp;#2366; &amp;#2332;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2325;&amp;#2367;&amp;#2352; &amp;#2326;&amp;#2366;&amp;#2344; &amp;#2325;&amp;#2361;&amp;n..</description>
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			<title>The &quot;Soma&quot; Life</title>
			<description>The pre-monsoon heat wasoppressing. Despite the AC on full power, there was uneasiness crawling on theskin. It felt like the sweat was trying to come out, but the oppression preventedit from doing so. The itching on the fingers was palpable now. They seemedshivering but were actually full of..</description>
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			<title>The Clickbait News</title>
			<description>Thescreen was covered in its entirety by the torrential rains that were fallingsomewhere. In about 5 seconds, the image zoomed out and water filled roadswere visible as were some vehicles (which is how the assumption of a road wasmade). Water had come upto the level of the vehicle windows (a..</description>
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			<title>The Social Credit Score</title>
			<description>It was about a century back thatPurohit Dube figured out a covert way of assigning a social credit score toindividuals in the largest democracy. Since then it has gone on to spread likea contagion across continents to subterfuge the entire world in its grasp. Onceentrenched, governments all ..</description>
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			<title>The Linked&quot;In&quot;Fluencer</title>
			<description>Flipping open the laptop, itpowered itself on. Flexing the fingers, the mind (with a twitching exercise ofeyebrows), the lamp directly behind powered a halo. Equivalence achieved, itwas time.www.linkedin.comThe halo burned brighter. Theycould feel the knowledge coursing through their..</description>
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			<title>'The Spittle Gun'</title>
			<description>Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Justupah Sharma - &amp;lsquo;TheSpittle Gun&amp;rsquo; - for regenerating biodiversity hotspots around the worldNEWS-A-TOCK.COM / Updated: Nov 10, 2089, 22:00ISTOSLO: After a full year of speculation andprayers, the confirmation is finally here - our own Justupah S..</description>
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			<title>TMC Carnival</title>
			<description>The &amp;#8377;80 toll brought forth people into themystic world of Thane. I was provided a side lane free entry. Autos commandedthat much respect or maybe they were invisible. The heavy rains were lashingthe city. The auto skidded on ahead while the sheet of rain drifted in. It wettedenough to ..</description>
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			<title>The PurposeMall Life</title>
			<description>Have you ever walked about ina mall? There are too many people there. Always crowded whenever time permitsi.e. anytime when they are not working or sleeping.I always wondered why wasthis. The irony here is that I am as bit a culprit as others.Anyways, as to my wonderings, Istarted my..</description>
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			<title>The Elementals - A Mumbai Production</title>
			<description>Heat had Air in its throes, suffocating it tothe point of exhaustion. Air looked pleadingly towards Rain but no respite camefrom there. Road was at its tipping point for Air&amp;rsquo;s bulky bottom was s**tfacing it. Breeze tried resuscitating life everywhere but the bulkybottom thwarted its at..</description>
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			<title>The Capitalist Life</title>
			<description>The day at the office had been atiring one. It seems to have become the norm. And the niggling is still there.Just like a tiny piece of food stuck between your teeth reachable by the tonguebut you can&amp;rsquo;t just get it out. It&amp;rsquo;s like some version of Chinese torture. Dropping my bag..</description>
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			<title>The Traffic Enlightenment</title>
			<description>It was on an extremely hot sunnyday that a miracle happened. As usual, on that day, the JVLR stretch infront ofIIT Powai seemed more of a parking space rather than a road. Cars of varyingwidths and heights, auto-rickshaws which seemed to be creating more of themselveseach moment, pedestrians..</description>
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			<title>The Harmony of Three City</title>
			<description>The city&amp;rsquo;s rhythmic harmony - athree layered harmony - has become a constant part of our lives. In its absenceone feels a void - an ear shaped void. It wasn&amp;rsquo;t so at the start but eventuallyit grew on all of us - an acquired taste like alcohol.At the bottom is the grrrrr&amp;hellip;..</description>
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			<title>The Car &quot;Home Theatre&quot;</title>
			<description>So the ad began with a light melodiousmusic one that you associate with a happy family dinner on a regular evening.With the expectation set, thegoody-goody feeling, the camera zooms out by moving upwards a family of four - fathersitting cross-legged on the driver&amp;rsquo;s seat, mother on th..</description>
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			<title>The Pre-approved Loan</title>
			<description>So after a lengthy battle between Mr. Setu Mathan and TheCentral Bank (TCB), the verdict has been delivered. From today onwards, everycitizen of this country has the right to get their credit report wiped clear ifthey want to. There are tears on the left and smiles on the right (no, not thep..</description>
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			<title>The &quot;Soul&quot; Mirror</title>
			<description>The bladder had reached the point of bursting.Throwing the bag on the desk, made way - literally, by pushing people around - towards the washroom. The dhar was rapid and yellow and the pleasureimmense. After the due process of washing the hands was done, the eye went tothe beautiful face. ..</description>
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			<title>The Nectar of Spending</title>
			<description>The white cake with yellow candles glittered in the glowof their flames. People gathered around swayed on their feet in an euphoricstate flashing all of their 32 teeth. The red letters - Eureka - looked as ifblood had been spilled and by a miraculous coincidence had taken the form ofthe afor..</description>
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			<title>The Lift of Life</title>
			<description>The day had finally come to an end. 7 &amp;lsquo;o&amp;rsquo; clock.I picked up my bag and made way for the lift. Theartificial lights in the lobby area obliviated the traffic outside. I scrunchedmy eyes to see outside. Flickering orange lights moving to and fro. I pressedthe down button for the l..</description>
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			<title>The Orwellian 'Market'</title>
			<description>The smogged out city looked desolatein a forlorn way. That was not true of course. But it didn&amp;rsquo;t matter. In just afew minutes, the multi-colour haloes would flood it anyway. He looked at hiswatch, it showed 9:08 AM - a mere 7-minute wait.A slight morning breeze had picked up,a surp..</description>
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			<title>The Death in a Mohalla</title>
			<description>The mohalla had gone quiet. Once an epicentreof uninhibited activity, it had come to a shuddering halt sometime back. Fromthe days of brightly lit shops being thronged by people for all their marriageneeds to today where the shops are desolate and shopkeepers are out as hawkersstanding infro..</description>
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			<title>The Days of Our Lives</title>
			<description>Monday: The sun is seething. Andinstead of burning, it&amp;rsquo;s causing asphyxiation. Or that is what it feels like.Inside a pool but not full of water just a vacuum. But, now, underneath theasphyxiation feeling is the burning up feeling. Not from the heat but from thelack of oxygen. It&amp;rsquo..</description>
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			<title>The Marvel i.e. Mumbai Homes</title>
			<description>On a grey-cast monsoon morning, bathed in sweat (mine and others - &amp;lsquo;local&amp;rsquo;ites will know) and scolded for not yet having reached office, I was downcast. I searched among the clouds for the proverbial silver lining but all I saw was bird poop white on my shirt. I became even more downcast..</description>
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			<title>The Story of Two Potlis</title>
			<description>Story of Chatori PotliMs. Bhatt had a grimly look on her face. She keptpressing her cloth bag closer to her, trying to protect it from the unconsciousslow drift of the hairy hand on the smooth left arm handle of the chair to theright side. Her right-hand neighbour, busy on the phone, was o..</description>
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