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		<title>Why a 30 year loan is often better than a 15 year loan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am nearing my house purchase closing date, I am increasingly swayed by different data points to decide between two mortgage loan choices &#8211; a 15 year term and a 30 year term. In short, 15 year term offers lower interest rate, overall quicker growth in equity and less interest payment overall. On the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1079&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Propaganda Legacy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There used to be a time when it was said that what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. Post independence West Bengal was the first state to adopt computers. In fact, Indian Statistical Institute and Jadavpur University were the first institutes to offer a course in Computer Science way back in 1968. The same institute [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1071&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy of British India – with Angus Maddison</title>
		<link>http://horizonspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/the-economy-of-british-india-with-angus-maddison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angus Maddison is a world-renowned economic historian who is famous for his work on estimating the past GDPs of modern economies by different measures. I won’t go much details into his original work, but the pieces he wrote about Indian subcontinent are worth-reading. In this post, I will try to delve into his assessment of British rule [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1062&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy of Mughal India &#8211; with Angus Maddison</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a couple of chapters of Angus Maddison who described Indian economy and its pitfalls quite vividly. Angus Maddison is a world-renowned economic historian who is famous for his work on estimating the past GDPs of modern economies by different measures. I won&#8217;t go much details into his original work, but the pieces he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1052&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2014 World T-20 &#8211; New Format</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am glad to see a new format being implemented in ICC World T-20 coming edition. There are plus-es and minus-es of every format but I guess the new format raises the probability of the right teams to play in the semis as well as gets rid of redundant matches. In 2012 edition of World [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1044&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Cricket Team Should Tour India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see there are efforts going on to arrange an India-Bangladesh bilateral series in India. While this should have been arranged years ago, I would say better late than never. We should all welcome the Bangladesh team to India and expect a good competitive series to be played here. While a lot of people might [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1041&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPL and Future of Cricket</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Success of Diaspora &#8211; Does it imply a success of home country?</title>
		<link>http://horizonspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/success-of-diaspora-does-it-imply-a-success-of-home-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of discussion around success of Indian diaspora outside of India. Previously, there were a few examples used to demonstrate that but with the arrival of more clear and concise statistics it&#8217;s obvious that Indians abroad are winning. They are ahead in education as well as in average income in the developed countries [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1020&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
		<link>http://horizonspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/2012-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 44,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 10 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1019&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian STEM students in USA by numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEM &#8211; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. I compiled a chart of Indian STEM students compared to total foreign-students in United States studying Masters and PhD. The numbers are for the year 2009. Source - Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Student and Exchange as retrieved from this report.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=horizonspeaks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=795346&#038;post=1016&#038;subd=horizonspeaks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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