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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Timothy Garton Ash]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Groton Osh, the staff at the Taj Mahal Hotel&rsquo;s top storey Grill Room say, had called to say he would be 15 minutes late.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Coffee with BS:</B> Sreenath Sreenivasan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[To those who know of him, four alphabets preceded by a symbol &ndash; @sree, a Twitter handle &ndash; should suffice, but to others, it is rather tedious to introduce Sreenath Sreenivasan.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Manmohan Shetty]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Manmohan Shetty is looking slim and relaxed.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Dinner with BS: </B>Zareer Masani, author]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Asking guests to choose restaurants for this column is an exercise often fraught with dread for me.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> IT's marathon man Ajit Balakrishnan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Whenever Ajit Balakrishnan is quoted in the press, it&rsquo;s usually in connection with wise pronouncements on information technology (IT) or higher education.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-it\s-marathon-man-ajit-balakrishnan/495120/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Pratip Chaudhuri]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The first six months are usually a honeymoon period in a CEO&rsquo;s life.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Michael Steiner]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Michael Steiner, Germany&rsquo;s newest ambassador to India, gives off that curious air of being both an unstoppable force of nature as well as vulnerable at heart, a thinking man who doesn&rsquo;t easily suffer fools but is open to zany ideas like bringing Bayern Munich footballers to play in India, says Jyoti Malhotra.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-michael-steiner/493684/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nikesh Arora: Google's fourth musketeer]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There are over 1.5 billion people on the internet today &mdash; that means if the online community were a country, it would be the most populous one.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nikesh-arora-google\s-fourth-musketeer/492969/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> David Bailey]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On a November evening, I walk into the charming living room of the Razhu Pru hotel, an old bungalow atop a hill in Nagaland&rsquo;s capital, Kohima, to find a silver-haired gentleman puffing on a cigar next to a fireplace.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Anurag Kashyap]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is 3:00 p m on a Sunday afternoon when I walk into The Westin, a hideous grey-and-glass monstrosity in Gurgaon.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Subhash Chandra]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At 61, Subhash Chandra is looking slim and happy.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Shaida Abdali]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The 33-year-old ambassador says the war against terrorism cannot be fought in Afghanistan&rsquo;s villages.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-shaida-abdali/489658/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Christopher Bayly]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For a generation of history students in Indian universities, his book Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars, a study of north Indian society during British expansion, was standard recommended reading.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Habil Khorakiwala]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Habil Khorakiwala seems to have done his research quite well: he knows that Lunch with BS also &ldquo;writes about the menu&" and has made sure that the best home-made Bohri cuisine is served at his private dining room on the ninth floor of Wockhardt&rsquo;s headquarters at Mumbai&rsquo;s Bandra Kurla complex, writes Shyamal Majumdar.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-habil-khorakiwala/488158/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:17:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Wendell Rodricks]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As I wait for my guest, one of the most respected designers in Indian fashion, who is also 15 minutes late, I wonder if he&rsquo;s chosen a suitable venue for our lunch.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Lalit Jalan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Midway through the lunch, Lalit Jalan recites a verse from the Bhagavad Gita, &ldquo;Do your duty, to the best of your abilities.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-lalit-jalan/486698/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Vineet Nayar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Vineet Nayar kicks off the conversation with a reference to Carlos Ghosn, the legendary leader of the Renault-Nissan alliance, whom he met recently in France.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-vineet-nayar/486086/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Rahul Khosla]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It happened quite serendipitously,&" quips Rahul Khosla when I ask how a dyed-in-the-wool multinational banker arrived at a promoter-driven, healthcare-to-insurance firm Max India.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-rahul-khosla/484580/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:24:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Manisha Girotra]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Rose Princess of Chandigarh at the age of 3 and show-stopper at a Mumbai fashion show in her later years.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-manisha-girotra/483188/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The official residence of the new Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav (39), where I am invited to lunch, smells overwhelmingly of fresh paint.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-akhilesh-yadav-chief-minister-uttar-pradesh/482515/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Arvind Panagariya]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Myth-buster par excellence, contrarian and reformist, and irrepressible optimist &mdash; Arvind Panagariya is a bit of all three.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-arvind-panagariya/481816/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:13:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Deep Kalra]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It was easy to choose the venue for lunch with Deep Kalra, Founder &amp; CEO of MakeMyTrip.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-deep-kalra/481200/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:07:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[He may be a maharaja but he is the most courteous, polite and soft-spoken minister in the Indian cabinet.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-vyricherla-kishore-chandra-suryanarayana-deo/480577/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> U K Sinha]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s not often that you have the privilege of the capital markets regulator reciting the works of Sahir Ludhianvi and Ghalib.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-u-k-sinha/479909/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:24:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Dinner with BS:</B> V Sumantran]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[V Sumantran, executive vice-chairman, Hinduja Automotive, readily agreed to lunch when we invited him.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/dinnerbs-v-sumantran/479141/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:17:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS: </B>Uday Shankar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Uday Shankar had always been a news editor.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-uday-shankar/478435/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:07:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Kamal Sharma]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Kamal Sharma isn&rsquo;t fond of networking dos &mdash; he&rsquo;d rather have roti-sabzi with office colleagues.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-kamal-sharma/477709/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Rajiv Lall]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[He is an economist by training who slipped into the corner office.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:55:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Roberto Zagha]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[His stint saw a big jump in the development bank&rsquo;s commitment in the country.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-roberto-zagha/476245/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Breakfast with BS:</B> Dr Binayak Sen]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I meet Dr Binayak Sen after five days and some 1,500 kilometres on the roads of south Chhattisgarh.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:22:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Nandan Nilekani]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For Nandan Nilekani, his job must seem like a constant exercise in damage control.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-nandan-nilekani/474949/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Natarajan Chandrasekaran]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the youngest MDs of the Tata Group on why the Indian IT story is not over yet and what it takes to push the envelope in personal and professional life write Shyamal Majumdar and Shivani Shinde.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-natarajan-chandrasekaran/474278/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:51:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Vikram Mehta]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Vikram Mehta, I was told, would prefer to lunch at The Chambers at the Taj hotel on Delhi&rsquo;s Mansingh Road.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-vikram-mehta/473649/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Ruchir Sharma]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is difficult to associate Ruchir Sharma with his first book, Breakout Nations .]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ruchir-sharma/472989/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:54:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Dinner with BS:</B> Nitish Kumar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So how did your meeting with the prime minister go,&" I ask Nitish Kumar (61), considered to be the chief minister who turned Bihar around, as he walks in.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/dinnerbs-nitish-kumar/472342/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:55:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Roopa Kudva]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When we invited Roopa Kudva to choose a restaurant for lunch, she had a counter-invitation for us.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:51:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Amit Chaudhuri]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Stepping into Larry&rsquo;s China at the Ambassador is like stepping a decade back, into another city.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-amit-chaudhuri/470646/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Lunch with BS:</b> Dinesh Mohan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The transport expert on why critics of the controversial BRT corridor have got it all wrong.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-dinesh-mohan/469823/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:14:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Ezekiel J Emanuel]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The passing of healthcare legislation in the US was a &lsquo;world historic event,&rsquo; says this bioethics scholar.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ezekiel-j-emanuel/468244/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:41:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Kaku Nakhate]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By her own admission, Kaku Nakhate is not the &ldquo;networking type&" and rarely goes out for lunches or dinners.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-kaku-nakhate/466014/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Pratap Bhanu Mehta]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The modest restaurant attached to Assam Bhavan in Delhi&rsquo;s leafy diplomatic area is a personal favourite but an unusual choice for a Lunch with BS guest.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-pratap-bhanu-mehta/465216/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Rahul Khullar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The forthright civil servant talks about his journey to being the only constant in the commerce ministry.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-rahul-khullar/463230/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:19:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Coffee with BS:</B> Dinesh Trivedi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite a party leader who doesn&rsquo;t seem to put much faith in him and barbs on his first-time ministership, Trivedi is determined to revamp the Indian railways.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/coffeebs-dinesh-trivedi/462602/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:10:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Wilbur Smith]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The prolific best-selling author is impervious to critics and remains an unreformed big game hunter.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-wilbur-smith/461981/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gunit Chadha on why har ek friend is indeed zaroori in one&rsquo;s personal and professional life.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-gunit-chadha/461238/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Snacks with BS:</B> Haresh Chawla]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[He built a media conglomerate in 10 years and thinks promoters need to learn to let go if the industry is to grow.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/snacksbs-haresh-chawla/460489/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:49:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Farhan Akhtar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Don 2 director talks about work-life balance, marketing innovations and Bollywood&rsquo;s obsession with opening weekend collections.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-farhan-akhtar/459769/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Sumant Sinha]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Years ago over lunch at the steakhouse at JW Marriott Atlanta, Sumant Sinha, then Group CFO of the venerable Aditya Birla Group, and his senior colleague and boss of Hindalco Debu Bhattacharya came up with a famous one-liner.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-sumant-sinha/459028/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Riding and lunching with BS:</B> Anoop Prakash]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The ex-marine is on a mission to capture the Indian market for heavyweight bikes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ridinglunchingbs-anoop-prakash/458327/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Infosys co-founder, S D Shibulal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Infosys' co-founder on multitasking at Infosys and the game-changers that made the company.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-infosys-co-founder-s-d-shibulal/457634/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:11:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Ashish Dhawan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The founder of private equity major ChrysCapital is busy figuring out a way to fix India&rsquo;s education system.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ashish-dhawan/456902/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:08:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Sunil Lulla]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The marketing guru on the television business and what it will take to make it sustainable.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-sunil-lulla/456178/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:13:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Ashok Chawla]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The man at the helm talks about his new role of overseeing M&amp;As as a regulator and his four-decade long stint in government service.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ashok-chawla/455465/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:39:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Khutub Hai]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s private sector could create a world-beating defence industry, if only the government would encourage it, says the head of this emerging manufacturer.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-khutub-hai/454778/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:07:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Agnello Dias]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The creator of Airtel&rsquo;s popular new ad campaign on the craft of advertising and why small is no longer scary.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-agnello-dias/454099/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:14:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Ashok Soota]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ashok Soota&rsquo;s house overlooks one of the best maintained parks in Bangalore&rsquo;s upmarket Koramangala area.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ashok-soota/453533/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:47:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Y M Deosthalee]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[L&amp;T group&rsquo;s Mr Finance on life beyond work and his banking game plan.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-y-m-deosthalee/452841/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:57:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Raymond Bickson]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The man at the helm talks about his mixed lineage and the makeover of Taj.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-raymond-bickson/452053/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Ratish Nanda]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of India&rsquo;s most important architects on how inclusive conservation can be both an important developmental tool and mean cash for the government.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ratish-nanda/451308/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Vinita Bali]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The CEO of one of India&rsquo;s largest listed food companies says a conventional professional life doesn&rsquo;t interest her.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-vinita-bali/450487/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:19:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Ajit Rangnekar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[His parents&rsquo; ideology didn&rsquo;t attract him but his vision for one of India&rsquo;s best-known B-schools suggests there&rsquo;s a leftist buried somewhere.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ajit-rangnekar/449702/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:13:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Chanda Kochhar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the world&rsquo;s most powerful women on fate and hard work &mdash; the cornerstones of her career in the banking world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-chanda-kochhar/448875/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:14:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Pankaj Ghemawat]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The professor and strategist on making the world round again.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-pankaj-ghemawat/448139/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Chiki Sarkar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of Indian publishing&rsquo;s most visible faces talks about spotting great authors and her new job.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-chiki-sarkar/447421/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:06:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lunch with BS: Arvind Virmani]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The former chief economic advisor on life in government and the reform years.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-arvind-virmani/446629/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:56:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> H P S Ahluwalia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of India&rsquo;s first Everesters talks about his Silk Route journeys and overcoming a crippling war injury.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-h-p-s-ahluwalia/445906/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:57:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Jawahar Goel]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government and the media do not communicate enough, thinks the man behind many of India&rsquo;s media companies.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-jawahar-goel/445203/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Julia Lovell]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Her CV describes her as a sinologist, a teacher of Chinese history at Birkbeck College, a translator of Chinese literature and the author of three books on China.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-julia-lovell/444501/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:55:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Harsh Goenka]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Harsh Goenka talks about his happy Hindu Undivided Family and passion for being a journalist.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-harsh-goenka/443812/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Dinner with BS:</B> Abhijit Sen]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[No, going out for an hour or two for lunch this week is not possible,&" said Planning Commission Member Abhijit Sen with a ring of finality that clearly discouraged further discussion on the matter.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/dinnerbs-abhijit-sen/443113/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS: </B>Subhash Chandra]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Subhash Chandra is not happy with the way television, a business he pioneered in India, looks today.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-subhash-chandra/441477/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> C P Krishnan Nair]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Having postponed his retirement, &lsquo;Chairman Sir&rsquo; talks about bonding with the Ambanis, Jyoti Basu, Subhas Bose and more.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-c-p-krishnan-nair/440610/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:12:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> T C A Anant]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India lacks a data culture and reliable collection systems but India&rsquo;s chief statistician still hopes to make the system more robust and user-friendly.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-t-c-a-anant/439791/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> R Mukundan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For the peripatetic Tata executive, socially-relevant diversification is the touchstone of his company&rsquo;s growth.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-r-mukundan/438040/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Ashok Gulati]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Reputed for his forthright views, the government's advisor on farm prices grew up in an environment that was far from rural.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ashok-gulati/437193/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Rajnikant Patel]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Rajnikanth Patel strongly believes that &ldquo;everything you come across in your life teaches you a lesson &mdash; whether it is food, a restaurant you visit or a hobby you choose.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-rajnikant-patel/436525/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Shrabani Basu]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The author of three well-received books describes how she discovered the &lsquo;lost&rsquo; diaries of Queen Victoria&rsquo;s Hindustani tutor and her work on a memorial project for an Indian princess who spied for the British during World War II.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-shrabani-basu/435738/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:22:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Rana Kapoor]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India Inc&rsquo;s powerful men appear to have developed a special fondness for big cats.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-rana-kapoor/434970/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Kaushik Basu]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Kaushik Basu, chief economic advisor (CEA) in the Union Finance Ministry, is unlike most government officers.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-kaushik-basu/434180/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Vishakha Mulye]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Vishakha Mulye faced the toughest interviews of her career after she was appointed managing director and CEO.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-vishakha-mulye/433464/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Vineet Nayyar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With TechM and Satyam now in &lsquo;honeymoon phase&rsquo;, the spry former civil servant talks about Raju and life after IT.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-vineet-nayyar/432659/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:29:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> C B Bhave]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The former Sebi chief explains why he didn&rsquo;t expect an extension and outlines his retirement agenda.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-c-b-bhave/430902/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Suman Bery]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a few hours after Suman Bery has demitted office as Director General of the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the grey eminence of India&rsquo;s think tanks, but he doesn&rsquo;t have all the time in the world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-suman-bery/430050/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:52:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Michel Danino, Indologist]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Meekly they follow as I lead them to the promised lunch.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-michel-danino-indologist/429244/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS</B>: Ajit Gulabchand]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ajit Gulabchand&rsquo;s drooping eyes acquire a tinge of pity as he looks at me and says: &ldquo;Kuch to nasha karo yaar, bekhudi mein bhi maza hai (do indulge in some intoxication, there is bliss in forgetting yourself).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ajit-gulabchand/427594/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Sanjay Rishi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sanjay Rishi is back in India working on a model to take American Express to the masses.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-sanjay-rishi/425986/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:59:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS: </B>Shiv Nadar, HCL Technologies]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It wasn&rsquo;t a great start to our conversation: Shiv Nadar is barely audible above the noise in the Club Lounge in Mumbai&rsquo;s Grand Hyatt, and one of his executives makes it a point to say that he can spare just 45 minutes but it would be great if I can make it within 40.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-shiv-nadar-hcl-technologies/425121/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:52:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Hemant Kanoria]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For this risk-taker from Kolkata, commercial viability is equally important if infrastructure projects are to be completed.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-hemant-kanoria/424309/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Deepak Kapoor]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[PricewaterhouseCoopers&rsquo; new chairman is busy putting the past behind the consultancy and raising the bar on risk and quality.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-deepak-kapoor/423575/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:17:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS:</B> Jaspal Bindra]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s better to be boring in an exciting market like India than exciting in a boring market like the US, Stanchart&rsquo;s Asia CEO says, defending the bank&rsquo;s reputation for conservatism.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-jaspal-bindra/422854/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Ronen Sen]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ronen Sen, I was told, was too much the diplomat to talk freely.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ronen-sen/419710/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Atul Sobti]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The former Ranbaxy CEO, set to launch a newspaper in Gurgaon, says he will pore over every word filed and every headline suggested but maintains journalists are better than analysts.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-atul-sobti/418919/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:43:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> Aditya Thackeray]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Like many other people who aspire to creativity, Aditya Thackeray uses his bathroom for more than one useful purpose: he writes his poems there and saves them on his cellphone.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-aditya-thackeray/418069/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Breakfast with BS: </B>Y V Reddy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Every author loves a book launch.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/breakfastbs-y-v-reddy/415769/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:21:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Tea with BS:</B> P C Kapoor, Bharti Shipyard, MD]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The head of India&rsquo;s largest private shipbuilder is a low-profile adventurer on the high seas.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-p-c-kapoor-bharti-shipyard-md/414929/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Parthasarathi Shome]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Most guests for this column tend to be faintly perplexed with a format that allows them to choose a restaurant, hold a freewheeling conversation and then have Business Standard pick up the tab.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-parthasarathi-shome/414138/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Stuart Davis]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At six-and-a-half feet and dressed in a royal blue business suit, it isn&rsquo;t difficult to spot Stuart Davis, CEO of HSBC, as he strides down the gleaming marble alley of the Taj Mahal Hotel at the appointed hour for lunch.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-stuart-davis/413420/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS: </B>Renuka Ramnath]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In April 2009 when she quit ICICI Ventures, Renuka Ramnath felt like &ldquo;a mother whose child has been snatched away&".]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-renuka-ramnath/411914/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<B>Lunch with BS</B>: Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Vikram Akula would be hard to pick out in a crowd.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-vikram-akula-sks-microfinance/411108/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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