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On the coerced destruction of Guardian’s Snowden hard drives & the Miranda detention, WAN-IFRA 26 Aug 2013 | 01:32 pm
A mostly good statement from WAN-IFRA, the international industry body of newspapers, and the World Editors Forum. The statement justly condemns the coerced and bizarre destruction of the hard drives...
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger | Comment is free | The Guardian 20 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger on the ominous significance of the nine-hour detention of David Miranda, under Schedule 7 of the UK’s anti-terror laws, in a Heathrow transit lounge, and on the coerciv...
After Post Sale, Spotlight Shines More Intensely on The Times – NYTimes.com 12 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
After the sale of The Washington Post, and most of its publishing assets, to Amazon’s Jeffrey Bezos, the intriguing question is: Can the traditional family ownership of The New York Times hold out? h...
DRS, David Warner, and ‘comedy gold’, David Hopps, ESPNcricinfo 3 Aug 2013 | 02:23 pm
‘Australia’s moustachioed cricketing pugilist made an appropriately comedic decision to review his dismissal, to the delight of the Old Trafford crowd.’ The English may have their laughs but the seri...
Obaid Siddiqi (January 7, 1932-July 26, 2013), pioneering scientist and institution builder, transformed molecular biology in India 27 Jul 2013 | 08:22 am
Nobility in the face of tragedy: He died of serious injuries after he was accidently knocked down by his neighbour’s two-wheeler; his family won’t file a complaint against the young man: http://www.t...
‘Woody Allen’s Best & Worst Movies’, Malcolm Jones in The Daily Beast’ 27 Jul 2013 | 06:57 am
‘Annie Hall’ ‘Match Point’ & More (Video) ‘At 77, the director’s latest, ‘Blue Jasmine,’ is hitting theaters, bringing his total to—who’s counting? Malcolm Jones on the 10 he loves, and a few clunkers...
Nadezhda Popov, famed World War II woman bomber pilot, dies at 91 20 Jul 2013 | 10:21 am
From the obituary in The Economist: When she was 19 or 20, she “could turn her aircraft over and dive full-throttle through raking German searchlights, swerving and dancing, acting as a decoy for a s...
‘Queen Elizabeth Rips Chris Christie on Gay Marriage’, Borowitz Report, The New Yorker 19 Jul 2013 | 04:08 pm
‘Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right wingers in his party,” she added. “But the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s ...
Narendra Modi’s repugnant analogy 18 Jul 2013 | 09:14 am
Brinda Karat writes: “In defence of the insulting and repugnant ‘kutte ka bachcha’ analogy he used when asked in an interview about the 2002 pogroms in Gujarat, Narendra Modi tweeted ‘In our culture e...
P. Sundarayya, 1913–1985: A Centenary Tribute 14 Jul 2013 | 08:41 pm
Introductory notes by V. K. Ramachandran, B. V. Raghavulu, and Madhura Swaminathan “Present-Day Agrarian Relations in Andhra Pradesh” by P. Sundarayya From Editor’s introduction: “The article itsel...
