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		<title>Indian restaurants and service charge</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2013/01/28/indian-restaurants-and-service-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more Indian restaurants charge a &#8220;service charge&#8221; on their bills these days. It&#8217;s usually somewhere in the 5-10% range, unless you&#8217;re in Delhi, where 10% is almost standard. Being in the F&#38;B business and having run a restaurant &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2013/01/28/indian-restaurants-and-service-charge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Ford India road trip to Hyderabad</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2012/08/09/my-ford-india-road-trip-to-hyderabad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, citizens. This blog post is to tell you about a road trip I&#8217;m undertaking from 10-15 August, 2012, sponsored by Ford India. Since I&#8217;ll probably be posting more than a few tweets about it, I thought it would be &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2012/08/09/my-ford-india-road-trip-to-hyderabad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Air India to launch new branding and ad campaign &#8211; &#8220;mother&#8217;s love&#8221; new positioning</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2011/09/13/air-india-to-launch-new-branding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Special to MadMan&#8217;s Web) India&#8217;s national airline, Air India, which has long been criticized for its aging fleet and even older flight attendants, has finally got the message. In a press conference yesterday at New Delhi, Air India Chairman Rohit Nandan announced &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2011/09/13/air-india-to-launch-new-branding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Airtel announces new Gold and Platinum support plans for customers</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2011/08/30/airtel-announces-new-gold-and-platinum-support-plans-for-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://madmanweb.com/2011/08/30/airtel-announces-new-gold-and-platinum-support-plans-for-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Special to MadMan&#8217;s Web) Bharti Airtel Ltd., which had already declared its vision as &#8220;By 2015 airtel will be the most loved brand, enriching the lives of millions&#8221;, today announced an accelerated plan to fulfill that vision in 2013 by &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2011/08/30/airtel-announces-new-gold-and-platinum-support-plans-for-customers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of new restaurants and restaurant critics</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2011/02/24/of-new-restaurants-and-restaurant-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Cooking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vikram Doctor points me to an interesting couple of blogs posts, one from a restaurant chef, and the other from a restaurant reviewer. The first post is by Alex Sanchez, a young chef from the US who&#8217;s now cooking at &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2011/02/24/of-new-restaurants-and-restaurant-critics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How not to design a flyover</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2006/07/05/how_not_to_desi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problems with Bangalore&#8217;s infrastructure are well-known. Everybody knows we have pathetic pot-holed roads, more traffic than the roads can handle, and an administration that talks through the wrong orifice about fixing things. Heck, we can boast that we are &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2006/07/05/how_not_to_desi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New outsourcing opportunity for India</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2006/03/12/new_outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://madmanweb.com/2006/03/12/new_outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Special to MadMan&#8217;s Web) Move over call centres and data processing BPOs. The future of outsourcing belongs to another industry, if Indian Minister for Commerce, Kamal Nath, is to be believed. According to Nath, the next new wave of growth &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2006/03/12/new_outsourcing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tips on making a radical career shift</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2006/02/14/tips_on_making/</link>
		<comments>http://madmanweb.com/2006/02/14/tips_on_making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s issue of Economic Times has a cover story on people who made drastic career shifts in their &#8220;High Flier&#8221; supplement. I&#8217;m one of the people featured in the story (how I wish I could actually find the darn article &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2006/02/14/tips_on_making/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad infrastructure saves lives: Karnataka Chief Minister</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2006/01/07/bad_infrastruct/</link>
		<comments>http://madmanweb.com/2006/01/07/bad_infrastruct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Special to MadMan&#8217;s Web) Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh today lashed out at the media for harping incessantly about the poor infrastructure in Bangalore. Singh said that the media should paint a more balanced picture and not stress only the &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2006/01/07/bad_infrastruct/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sting operation on MadMan shows he is a fraud</title>
		<link>http://madmanweb.com/2005/08/10/string_operatio/</link>
		<comments>http://madmanweb.com/2005/08/10/string_operatio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MadMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems I&#8217;m a cheat, folks. I supposedly pretend to be a &#8220;veteran blogger&#8221; when I&#8217;m not. Or at least so says Rohan Pinto in this brilliant piece of investigative journalism. (Read it at http://blog.rohanpinto.com/archives/2005/08/blogging_or_che.html &#8211; I&#8217;m not giving my &#8230; <a href="http://madmanweb.com/2005/08/10/string_operatio/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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