<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3065310733391200833</id><updated>2011-10-17T03:22:31.029-07:00</updated><category term='General'/><category term='Relationships'/><title type='text'>Life's Like That...</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3065310733391200833/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Sachin Arya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04776839398409608419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3065310733391200833.post-280303003687035040</id><published>2009-10-03T11:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-03T12:18:44.166-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Can India do a Rio de Janeiro?</title><content type='html'>Congratulations to people of Brazil...The citizens will be a proud lot as they pip Madrid and much hyped Chicago for &lt;a href="http://www.ndtv.com/news/photos/album-details.php?id=523&amp;amp;Album=PHOTO_GALLERY&amp;amp;AlbumTitle=RIO+DE+JANERIO+BAGS+2016+OLYMPICS+HOSTING+RIGHTS"&gt;2016 Olympic bid&lt;/a&gt;. Brazil now features in an elite club of countries who have opened their doors to the world's best atheletes. This will surely be a big booster for Brazil's developing economy as well. Brazil now becomes the third counrty in the BRIC quartet (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to have got the opportunity to host the ultimate sporting event. Left alone is India, who sometimes ago had dreams of making a &lt;a href="http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/29/stories/2007042906111800.htm"&gt;bid for the 2020 olympics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, India's successful bid largely depends on how Common Wealth Games 2010 (CWG) are organized by India. Currently, things don't seem too positive for India. The &lt;a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/delhi/2010-Games-stadia-work-crawling-Report/articleshow/5069658.cms"&gt;work lags behind &lt;/a&gt;and probably would not be finished before deadlines.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3065310733391200833-280303003687035040?l=forthrightlyput.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/feeds/280303003687035040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-india-do-rio-de-janeiro.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3065310733391200833/posts/default/280303003687035040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3065310733391200833/posts/default/280303003687035040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-india-do-rio-de-janeiro.html' title='Can India do a Rio de Janeiro?'/><author><name>Sachin Arya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04776839398409608419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3065310733391200833.post-8499014140442857790</id><published>2009-10-02T05:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T05:32:29.890-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relationships'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Will I Ever??</title><content type='html'>I am unsure. I thought. I started, but paused. I gave up.&lt;br /&gt;This is pretty much what I did from past 5 years on starting a blog. I always thought blogging is easy. It's not. I mean starting is, but keeping up your promise is hardest. That's what we do in relationships as well...We meet new people, we make friends, we meet more new people, we make more friends...forgetting the old ones.&lt;br /&gt;Is 'moving on' a part of human nature or we have become that way in this age?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3065310733391200833-8499014140442857790?l=forthrightlyput.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/feeds/8499014140442857790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/2009/10/will-i-ever.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3065310733391200833/posts/default/8499014140442857790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3065310733391200833/posts/default/8499014140442857790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://forthrightlyput.blogspot.com/2009/10/will-i-ever.html' title='Will I Ever??'/><author><name>Sachin Arya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04776839398409608419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
