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Jun

20

2018

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What are the Koreans thinking about Reconciliation?

Politics & Social, Popular

Written by Steffy Khanam, Seoul, South Korea Photo : Shutterstock When South Korea hosted the Olympics in 1988, North Korea refused to participate and it also blew up an South Korean Airliner 10 months before the event. But this time, North Korea participated in the events and even sent a women’scheerleaders team. Some might believe that the North Korean team’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, in South Korea, might be a sign of reconciliation, but how does South Korean population feel about it? To find out the answer Iactually asked some of the students in Kyung Hee,…

Jun

15

2018

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From Darwin’s world

Popular, Science & TechDarwin, Evolution, Survival of the Fittest

Written By : Riaz Quadir Paris, France Book Review Rediscovering Darwin – By David Elliot Loye If you are going to read only one book this year, or in the next two years or the next five, let David Elliot Loye’s “Rediscovering Darwin” be the one. As has happened many times before in human history, original ideas get hijacked, transformed, mangled, suppressed or misrepresented by those who came after. The greater the ideas the greater the chances of any of this or a combination of these happening to them. The irony is that such distortions happen more often by the…

Jun

15

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration – Part 1

Column, Popular

A heroic act, like those superheroes frequently do on-screen, performed in real life, the Spiderman, captured on mobile phones, posted on social media, shared thousands and millions of times, praise and glory showered on, a meeting with the President the next day, promise of immediate nationality, work offer from fire brigade company, media houses fighting for exclusive interviews, people in the street asking for selfies,... thus the life of Mamoudou Gassama, 22 years old young man from Mali, has changed drastically, from illegal immigrant to naturalized citizen. France, the country of liberty, equality and fraternity, opened its arm to this…

Jun

15

2018

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Aadhaar Card and Identity

Politics & Social

Debkumar Mitra (Debkumar is a Kolkata-based writer) In the mid-1990s the government of Iceland had granted deCODE Genetics exclusive access to the medical records, some of them hundreds of years old, of the tiny European nation. The move caused a furore inside and outside Iceland with many calling it to be the sellout of the genetic identity of every Icelander. A woman moved the supreme court of Iceland against deCODE and the court ruled in favour of her. The controversy did not die down with it, since then whenever the researchers of the Human Genome Project wanted to study the…

Jun

12

2018

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The Magical Philly

Popular, TravelMagic Gardens, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Written by : Srijanee Biswas Ohio, USA Photo : Srijanee Biswas, Soham There’s something magical about Philadelphia – whether it’s the gridiron streets, the striking murals adorning the city buildings, the historical monuments that coexist in perfect synergy with the soaring skyscrapers or simply, the whiff of fresh pretzels as one strolls along the city’s numerous open-air markets. We were on a quest to absorb this and everything else that the ‘Birthplace of America’ had to offer. Our tryst with Philly’s historical adventures led us to Center and Old City, as we marveled at the sheer elegance of City Hall,…

Jun

12

2018

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The Effect of China’s Ban on Foreign-Trash Import

Economics, Politics & Social

Dr. Trina Biswas Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. Contact: [email protected] Over the last several decades the ‘Global South’ countries have been the dumping ground of toxic or hazardous wastes coming from the ‘Global North’ countries. For years China topped the list of Global South countries as the world's top destination for recyclable trash followed by countries like Ghana, India, Philippines, etc. As it is cheaper to export garbage to China and as the country has no equivalent when it comes to waste-management capacity, China has always been thetop destination for foreign garbage or…

Jun

10

2018

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The Wedding

Politics & Social

Written by : Riaz Quadir photo credit : Shutterstock In the course of history, Empires rise and fall with periodic regularity. But rarely has one falling, passed on the baton to its wayward cousin across the ocean to carry on and complete its original blueprint for the Empire. The Anglo-American experience is that exception. Lately, it had been faltering, but today the project got a special shot in the arm. It was a wedding that (like in the old days) was going to cement the two countries, at least at a people’s level. The groom was a British Prince, the…

May

27

2018

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Hawking was a neuroscientist

Popular, Science & Tech

Written by : Arghya Manna Are we conscious of our being? Though neuroscientists, philosophers and neuro-philosophers have debated over the topics for decades, the answer has not come. Who thenunderstood consciousness? Virginia Woolf was someone who did. She was one of the most important English writers of the twentieth century, who had exploited consciousness in her narratives. According to Woolf, consciousness— simultaneously establishes and questions our being—is the accumulation of our scattered thoughts. She noted in her diary that when she looked inside herself, what she found was consciousness never stood still, rather it was a turbulent current. Woolf explained…