<?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/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28115406.post5102578101057251763..comments</id><updated>2011-12-30T02:31:50.866-05:00</updated><category term='current affairs'/><category term='Research'/><category term='Secularism'/><category term='arunachala'/><category term='Technology'/><category term='Zen'/><category term='Hills'/><category term='apple'/><category term='dhyana'/><category term='Michigan'/><category term='Statistics'/><category term='Philosophy'/><category term='astrology'/><category term='ramana'/><category term='meditation'/><category term='Videos'/><category term='excel'/><category term='Mumbai'/><category term='steve jobs'/><category term='Travel'/><category term='bill gates'/><category term='elephant'/><category term='Waterfalls'/><category term='History'/><category term='Weekend Photo Comment'/><category term='Religion'/><category term='India'/><category term='rant'/><category term='Patent'/><category term='Nature'/><category term='ganapati'/><category term='Images'/><category term='Ann Arbor'/><category term='Brahmin'/><category term='politics'/><category term='Music'/><category term='culture'/><category term='Survey Research'/><category term='Photography'/><category term='Humour'/><category term='Academia'/><category term='Fun'/><category term='Buddhism'/><category term='Business'/><category term='People'/><category term='Life'/><category term='Bangalore'/><category term='Data Representation'/><category term='Sanskrit'/><category term='tiruvannamalai'/><category term='Religion and Philosophy'/><category term='poetry'/><category term='Sampling'/><category term='Kornfield'/><category term='Coorg'/><category term='US'/><category term='Education'/><category term='noise'/><category term='computing'/><category term='Kapleau'/><category term='R'/><category term='Books'/><title type='text'>Comments on Sharan Sharma: Friendly only if you know English</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.sharansharma.com/feeds/5102578101057251763/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28115406/5102578101057251763/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.sharansharma.com/2011/03/friendly-only-if-you-know-english.html'/><author><name>Sharan Sharma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09295242114299220736</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kc_lyQd66yg/S_05CyZ_wxI/AAAAAAAAAFs/gbQpXoxL3Rc/s1600-R/agni.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28115406.post-5760861252482033631</id><published>2011-04-04T07:03:06.361-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T07:03:06.361-04:00</updated><title type='text'>We are ourselves to be blamed. To be frank, after ...</title><content type='html'>We are ourselves to be blamed. To be frank, after reading Becoming Indian after you recommended it, I did try to read Premchand in Hindi but just could not... I can&amp;#39;t speak in Punjabi, which is quite embarrassing for me, i find it more comfortable to write in English, even though my English is not perfect, my Hindi is even worse; I did my best to learn Sanskrit but just could not get a teacher...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you go to a restaurant and order food, you are expected to speak in English, even at McDonalds; when you speak to a client, you speak in English, for if you speak in Hindi, that does not leave the right impression. that&amp;#39;s our culture and we are ourselves to be blamed for it.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28115406/5102578101057251763/comments/default/5760861252482033631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28115406/5102578101057251763/comments/default/5760861252482033631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.sharansharma.com/2011/03/friendly-only-if-you-know-english.html?showComment=1301914986361#c5760861252482033631' title=''/><author><name>Sandeep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00561675488997974527</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13009587874387728030'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/8163/3208/1600/w1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.sharansharma.com/2011/03/friendly-only-if-you-know-english.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28115406.post-5102578101057251763' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28115406/posts/default/5102578101057251763' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-179048314'/></entry></feed>
