Newsmakers

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    Jammu & Kashmir: Catastrophe, Cause and Consequence

    The floods that ravaged India’s northernmost state and enveloped the nation’s consciousness just weeks ago seem to have fallen out of favour with popular opinion as other border events grab headlines. Yet the people of Kashmir are far from normalcy as disease, overcrowding, and a lack of food and water continue to aggrieve. As a newly initiated study aims...

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    Barrack Obama: First Year As President, Again

     Issue 25

    After winning the United States presidential election in November last year, 2013 was Obama’s first year of his second term as President. It was a bumpy ride as the world watched him carefully and tried to figure out how this second term was going to play out. It was an difficult and eventful year for him, most would say...

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    Celebrating Malala

     Issue 25

    Malala Yousafzai is a name you probably know – a Pakistani girl who’s just 16 years old, and yet she was a runner up for TIME’s Person of the Year, THE favourite for this year’s Noble Peace Prize, and the winner of the Sakharov Peace Prize (second only to the Nobel). Most people know her as the girl who...

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    I Am Anna

     Issue 25

    The white topis and the slogan “Iam Anna” was probably the closest thing to a nationwide movement that India has witnessed post Independence. But like many other national outcries – the voice of the comman man, that rose in support of Anna Hazare’s LokPal bill, drowned in the corridors of the Rajya Sabah,Lok Sabah. With amendments after amendments –its...

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    Chelsea Manning and The Future of Leaks

     Issue 25

    The young US Army Private (earlier known as) Bradley Manning was tried and convicted to 35 years imprisonment – much less than he could have got, much greater than many thought he should have. Manning made news in 2010 when he confessed to leaking thousands of classified documents pertaining to US military operations in Iraq and Afganistan, and America’s...

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    Edward Snowden: A Tale of Action & Adventure

     Issue 25

    It all began one fine day in April, when a gutsy ex-NSA contractor decided to tell the world of what he had seen the National Security Agency doing, and then got the hell out of there. He set up shop in Hong Kong and made available to the world clips that showed, on record, the NSA’s PRISM program –...

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    Lance Armstrong: Disgraced

     Issue 25

    Cycling legend Lance Armstrong, after years of denial, finally confessed to using banned, performance enhancing substances during his cycling years on The Oprah Winfrey Show – this was after he had been stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles. He revealed shocking details of how he was a part of a systematic and sophisticating doping program for over...

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    Pope Francis: Person of The Year

     Issue 25

    One of the most important events of the year was the resignation of the aging Pope Benedict XVI, the first Catholic Head to resign in nearly 600 years. This historic resignation was followed up with an almost equally historic appointment: the appointment of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the Pope of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis (which was the title...

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    The Chelyabinsk Explosion

     Issue 25

    This was perhaps the most impactful event of 2013 –when in February an Asteroid from outer space exploded over the Russian City of Chelyabi nsk. The 20 meter wide space rock travelled at 60 times the speed of sound (12 Wkimedia Commons miles per second),exploded with an energy equal to 500 kilotonnes of TNT and burnt with a brightness...

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    The Delhi Election: Why It Matters

     Issue 24

    There was an election this week: but we won’t start off with that. Instead, we’ll talk about this guy – very talked about around here – and his party. The name is Arvind Kejriwal, and the party is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Don’t stop reading: this newspaper does not favour any party or side in any election or...

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