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      <title>The ₹20,000 question</title>
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      <description>₹20,000 buys a website. It doesn’t buy a platform. What that budget gets you, what it doesn’t, and what to do when you need more.</description>
      <category>Pricing</category>
      <category>Websites</category>
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      <category>Small Business</category>
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      <title>Trust isn’t a security model</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Unused RAM isn’t waste. Unpatched code is. What Black October taught me about AI, security and who we can still trust.</description>
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      <category>Black October</category>
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      <title>Good intentions don’t cancel out bad implementation</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I don’t write posts often. I usually observe quietly. But given where the world, technology, and AI are headed, staying silent no longer feels responsible.</description>
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