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		<title>You dare not call me a slut!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, I read Seema Goswami&#8217;s perspective on Slutwalk in HT Brunch. The crux of her story is that she thinks accepting &#8216;slut&#8217; as a word is demeaning. Why should women call themselves sluts just to prove a point? Secondly, she believes that though rape under any circumstances is not justifiable, you shouldn&#8217;t leave your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=209&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ownership, value and love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste from the tube. I don’t really care about wasting or not attempting to utilize the total amount of paste. But my mother is different from me. She would squeeze every tube till it&#8217;s last bit. And I would get irritated by her efforts. Mind you, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=203&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget to entertain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A pen salesman enters a crowded Mumbai local train. He seems pretty sure of his success. His body language suggests so. After all, he has a unique product to sell. A pen with an eraser that can wipe off whatever you write. Without a trace. But his product is not the only special thing he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=198&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the diagnosis is wrong</title>
		<link>http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/when-the-diagnosis-is-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shop Detective</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had gone for a few consumer home visits with a client. The client wanted to do an ad clinic with them. Getting to understand how they’ve received our ads as well as that of competition. Every respondent was shown four ads at one go. And they were asked what they remembered. Then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=192&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Files and folders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You start with a clean folder. And then those files keep coming. Some created by you, some sent by clients, colleagues, vendors, etc. There comes a time when there are so many files that you are forced to create sub-folders. So that it becomes easier to retrieve them later and saves you from a lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=188&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demand, supply and decisions</title>
		<link>http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/demand-supply-and-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was out shopping with a friend. She loved a dress and tried it on. It was looking nice on her. I felt the dress was nice but not worth the Rs.4000/- tag on it. She asked my opinion. I told her that it’s not worth that price. “Do you really need it?” I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=186&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your basic instinct?</title>
		<link>http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/whats-your-basic-instinct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saving Curiosity Family Order Romance Vengeance Power Independence Honour Social contact Hunger Idealism Acceptance Tranquility Physicality Social standing The sixteen basic human motivations. They form the basis for every action that we take. But at the heart of it, every motivation feeds into one called ‘Order’ ‘Order’ means everything should be in place at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=182&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light travels faster than sound</title>
		<link>http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/light-travels-faster-than-sound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was kid I was taught this in physics. My teacher substantiated it by saying how lightening is seen before you hear the thunder. Even today I can see it when my phone gets a sms. It lights up first and then gives out the sound. It is nature’s way of cutting the surprise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=178&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A marriage of equals</title>
		<link>http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/a-marriage-of-equals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago I was told that I am going to work on a new brand. That meant a new boss. I have always felt happy and fortunate to have bosses who were way too senior to me. I never wanted a boss who was just a few years senior to me. My previous boss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=174&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When you are rejected</title>
		<link>http://shopdetective.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/when-you-are-rejected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was devastated. My impeccable record was shattered. A few years ago I was rejected in a job interview. It was my first such rejection. I could no longer say, &#8220;I have never been rejected in a job interview&#8221;. I used to take pride in the fact that every prospective employer wanted me. That was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shopdetective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6083815&amp;post=165&amp;subd=shopdetective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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