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		<title>Pass the Lok Pal Bill already!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few months, most Indians on Facebook and other social networks would have seen some mention of the Lokpal Bill and Anna Hazare. I have discussed this issue with several of my friends and thought I&#8217;d summarize my thoughts and spam my friends&#8217; Facebook feed as well :) I support Anna Hazare. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=319&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am an academic descendent of Markov</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My advisor officially approved my thesis and I am now Dr. Subramanian. Looking up by genealogy was a breeze since my advisor&#8217;s advisor is on Wikipedia. I am an academic descendent of the famous mathematician Markov. Kathryn McKinley Ken Kennedy Jacob T. Schwartz Nelson Dunford Jacob Tamarkin Andrey Markov Pafnuty Chebyshev Nikolai Brashman Joseph Johann [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=315&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Show me your papers&#8221;: The statistical version</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/show-me-your-papers-the-statistical-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several commentators have claimed the Arizona&#8217;s new immigration law to be unconstitutional. Rightly so. The most controversial provisions are vague in specifying when &#8220;reasonable suspicion&#8221; exists. It is clear that the only way for a police officer to suspect somebody is their race, which would violate the Equal Protection clause (14th amendment). The law also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=314&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pity the tamil guy trying to get married</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this blog post talking about how your race affects the response you get in the dating site okcupid.com. The folks in the worst situation were Indian men, who were replied to only 20.8% of the time (though there are others in the low 20s as well); and Black women, who are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=307&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why does IIT Madras want to know my religion?</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/why-does-iit-madras-want-to-know-my-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clarification: My outrage is in the following order: Religion &#62;&#62;&#62; Age &#62;&#62; National Origin &#62; Paper count. IIT Madras is hiring new faculty. I heard ahead of time that an advertisement was coming out on the 20th and I was eagerly looking forward to see it. What struck me most was how unwelcoming it was. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=304&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words that alernate hands when typed</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/words-that-alernate-hands-when-typing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this tweet (original) that claims that &#8220;Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.&#8221; Well, here are some words that are longer (and are not plural forms). These include some common words like authenticity, entitlement, enchantment, proficiency, etc. (13 letters) antiendowment antisudorific autotoxicosis dismantlement (12 letters) antiantibody authenticity autoantibody autotoxicity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=293&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My holiday giving</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/my-holiday-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually stay silent and anonymous (if possible) about my donations. I wanted to change that to encourage others to donate as well. It is not that these organizations need my endorsement. I am a nobody and some of these organizations are super-huge. I am hoping there is a chance that you might be encouraged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=289&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shailesh Gandhi kisses your privacy goodbye</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/shailesh-gandhi-kissed-your-privacy-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I blogged about an important dispute related to the Right to Information Act. The dispute dealt with two issues 1) that of hard copy verus soft copy data 2) protecting the privacy of students. Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi ruled on this issue. The good news: IITs have to provide a soft copy of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=287&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why should I care about Jaimat&#8217;s resolutions?</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/why-should-i-care-about-jaimats-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/why-should-i-care-about-jaimats-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Mr. Kanchan Gupta: Posting here since I can&#8217;t condense this in a tweet. Groups and individuals have a fundamental human right to express their opinions. You have a right disagree with their views publicly. You have been relentlessly tweeting about their resolutions. I am wondering what makes you *so* worked up. I am sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=272&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Important RTI dispute involving the IITs</title>
		<link>http://mssnlayam.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/important-rti-dispute-involving-the-iits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suriya Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi is going to hear an important dispute relating to the Right To Information act. Prof. Rajeev Sharma, a computer sciences professor at IIT Kharagpur has filed an RTI application seeking test scores of all applicants who appeared in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination in 2006. The JEE exam board is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mssnlayam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794233&amp;post=268&amp;subd=mssnlayam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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