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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Grass_root_Gandhian_activists_/_P.Maruthi" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="0" title="Breathing / Swami Vivekananda" missing="" />
      <page ns="0" title="Concentration: Its Practice / Swami Vivekananda" missing="" />
      <page ns="0" title="Concentration: Its Spiritual Uses / Swami Vivekananda" missing="" />
      <page ns="0" title="Dhyana And Samadhi / Swami Vivekananda" missing="" />
      <page ns="0" title="Each is great in his own place / Swami Vivekananda" missing="" />
      <page ns="0" title="Freedom / Swami Vivekananda" missing="" />
      <page pageid="5059" ns="0" title="Baba vs Black Money / Deepti Gupta" />
      <page pageid="5061" ns="0" title="Bravo Youngsters! / Deepti Gupta" />
      <page pageid="5057" ns="0" title="Brewing Death Underneath / Deepti Gupta" />
      <page pageid="6541" ns="0" title="Buddhism, the Fulfillment of Hinduism (26 September 1893) / Swami Vivekananda" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>