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		<title>Living In A Trance-port: Life in Delhi</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2011/01/living-in-a-trance-port-life-in-delhi/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2011/01/living-in-a-trance-port-life-in-delhi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday-afternoons in Delhi are beautiful in January, especially with the golden sunshine of winters, and less traffic. So, like on most lazy Saturday afternoons, took my six-year-old on a trip to his library in my car. The distance from Greater Kailash 2 to his library in South Extension is six kilometres (3.7 miles). As we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating with Stars Far into My Mind</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2010/06/navigating-with-stars-far-into-my-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2010/06/navigating-with-stars-far-into-my-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ancient algorithms in my contemporary world
Sometimes, late into the night when I enter my bedroom, I find it plunged pitch-black in total darkness. The experience is rather delightful. The sense of space suddenly disappears. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s ahead, above, sideways, or below. I just know I am there but I can&#8217;t see anything about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bird&#8217;s Eye-view: To Bee or Not to Bee Saving Tigers.</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2010/02/birds-eye-view-to-bee-or-not-to-bee-saving-tigers/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2010/02/birds-eye-view-to-bee-or-not-to-bee-saving-tigers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile-Towers May Be Endangering Species of Birds Across India and Threatening Bees.
How do you poach customers in a battle for survival and marketshare? An Indian mobile-telephony company, Aircel, may have hit upon a new idea for big-game hunting. Aircel has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India, in a strategic campaign to save the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New &#8216;Avatar&#8217; of Mysticism</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/12/the-new-avatar-of-mysticism/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/12/the-new-avatar-of-mysticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[acupuncture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[avatar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Look carefully. The Na&#8217;vi people portrayed in James Cameron&#8217;s &#8216;Avatar&#8217; sit cross-legged on the ground, hold hands, and rotate their bodies from their bellies in a circular movement. All this in a deeply-meditative trance under the guidance of their chief Shaman and High-Priestess.
Mandala Meditation
The sequence closely resembles an actual technique of meditation, devised by Osho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Genesis Takes Place Continually in Nirvana&#8221; &#8211; Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/08/genesis-takes-place-continually-in-nirvana-physicist-dr-michio-kaku/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/08/genesis-takes-place-continually-in-nirvana-physicist-dr-michio-kaku/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physics in the 21st century is finally beginning to speak the language of mysticism. Dr. Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, who speaks of Science unravelling not one, but several universes, or &#8216;multiverses&#8217;. The first time I heard this term and its explanation was not in this century, but the previous, and not from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How You May Fight Unwanted and Spam SMS-Text Messages</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/07/how-you-may-fight-unwanted-and-spam-sms-text-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/07/how-you-may-fight-unwanted-and-spam-sms-text-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you fed up of receiving unwanted sms-text messages on your mobile-phone? Have you received any within the last 24 hours? If your answer is yes, your problem is far deeper than you&#8217;d like to acknowledge.
Harassment
For instance, do you realize with each passing day, the menace of unwanted SMSes bombarding your mobile-phone is only set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantum Compass in Birds&#8217; Eyes, And More.</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/06/quantum-compass-in-birds-eyes-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/06/quantum-compass-in-birds-eyes-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://niyam.com/blog/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s more to vision than meets the eye. Especially our eyes. Since more than fifteen years, I have just read, researched, and absorbed anything that helps me understand vision, colors, and ultimately, perception. I just find it so fascinating and mysterious. My workshops on digital color, digital typography, or digital sound, and more recently, digital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Intelligence and Meaning on the Web</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/01/seeking-intelligence-and-meaning-on-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2009/01/seeking-intelligence-and-meaning-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gadgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s Start with Toys through alaTest.com. Hopefully We&#8217;ll Get to Truth Later.
What is the world wide web? A collective outpouring of almost a billion minds chattering together to create a cacophony of frenzied thoughts that overwhelm and deluge you. If you could imagine a single giant megaphone connected to the web, and a text-to-speech engine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Meltdown: The Fine Print</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2008/12/global-meltdown-the-fine-print/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2008/12/global-meltdown-the-fine-print/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chanced upon these figures:
&#8220;&#8230;companies in their bid to save costs, have announced more than one lakh [100,000] job cuts in the month of December alone in the US, while so far in 2008 there have been close to 20 lakh [2 million] layoffs.&#8221;
http://profit.ndtv.com/2008/12/28200015/microsoft-advised-to-lay-off-o.html
No figures available on what&#8217;s going to happen the next month, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Anyone Can Improve Their Spoken and Written English</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2008/12/how-anyone-can-improve-their-spoken-and-written-english/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2008/12/how-anyone-can-improve-their-spoken-and-written-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What every Indian must understand: Good language skills go a long way in furthering your professional career, personal life, and self-grooming. Poor skills betray the value and credibility of your education.
Over the past five years, have noticed a rather alarming trend in India. Literate and well-educated people can no longer speak a single, proper sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Words Empty Vessels of Sound?</title>
		<link>http://niyam.com/blog/2008/11/are-words-empty-vessels-of-sound/</link>
		<comments>http://niyam.com/blog/2008/11/are-words-empty-vessels-of-sound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niyam Bhushan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A zen brush-stroke defines an empty bowl. Using typography, I carefully placed the following words near it: &#8220;words: nothing but empty vessels of sound.&#8221; You may check the calligraphy and design here: writing.

I must have authored the original design somewhere in 2001. A few hours ago today, in 2008, I received the following email from [...]]]></description>
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