"The Vulture and the Little Girl," alternatively titled "The Struggling Girl," is a photograph captured by Kevin Carter. It made its debut in The New York Times on March 26, 1993. The image depicted the harrowing conditions in South Sudan, particularly in the region known as the "Hunger Triangle," which relied on support from UNESCO and various aid organizations to combat famine during the 1990s.

It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken child who had collapsed in the foreground with a hooded vulture eyeing him from nearby.

Operation Lifeline Sudan took the initiative to invite photojournalists and others to document and report on the dire circumstances. This powerful photograph earned Kevin Carter the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994.

In 1982, Israel allowed its Lebanese allies to massacre Palestinian refugees in Beirut.

In the wake of the massacre, Jean Genet, a white French gay writer, stayed with Palestinian refugees for a period of six months. This resulted in a moving, poetic account of literary journalism entitled “Four Hours in Shatila”, detailing the harrowed sufferings of the Palestinian refugees as witnessed by Genet.

An excerpt from the text: “A photograph doesn’t show the flies nor the thick white smell of death. Neither does it show how you must jump over the bodies as you walk along from one corpse to the next.”

In the same vein, Arundhati Roy’s “Walking with the Comrades” is a riveting account of the conflict between the Indian state and the Naxals. Staying with them for a period of time, Roy describes her days among the strategists and foot soldiers of the Naxal movement as she walks, eats, and sleeps with them in the densest forests of Jharkhand.

Abdul Jabbar was nine years old when he was given some coloured pencils and asked to draw scenes from his life in Darfur, Sudan. Like hundreds of thousands of others he had been driven from his village in an assault by the Sudanese army and their accomplices, the Janjaweed, meaning roughly “evil on horseback”. Abdul Jabbar was surviving in a refugee camp—but at least he had survived. His drawing records the fates of some who did not.

For instance in one of the pictures, a young child is being thrown into a fire. In the middle of the picture, a hooded man is being shot at close range. Towards the bottom, a soldier is cutting off another man’s head. This drawing, and hundreds of others, were collected by Anna Schmidt, a humanitarian worker. She was there to gather evidence of what had really happened in Darfur since full-scale conflict had erupted four years earlier in 2003. Ms Schmidt remembers that it was the mothers who urged her to talk to the children. “If you really want to know the truth,” they told her, “speak to them. Don’t just take it from us.”

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The children were asked simply to give an account of life in their villages. Ms Schmidt was shocked by the visceral images they produced. Time and again, the same motifs recur. Helicopter gunships swoop low, bringing fire from the sky even as the people below are still sleeping. Next come the Janjaweed on camel or horseback, followed closely by regular Sudanese troops in their “technicals”, pick-up trucks with heavy machineguns mounted on the back. The detail— down to the flashes on the troops’ uniforms, clearly identifying them as regular Sudanese soldiers—is remarkable. Often the victims are rendered in one colour, while the attackers are rendered in another.

Established in 1918, Haaretz is one of Israel’s leading international news organizations and is their
longest running newspaper currently in print. Haaretz is Israel's only left-leaning newspaper. It
publishes a Hebrew newspaper and an English edition every day in print and on a range of digital
platforms.

Recent events at the ICC’s 2023 Cricket World Cup for Men have left a bitter aftertaste for many
passionate fans of the sport. From the BCCI being criticised for its terrible management of ticket
sales that led to abysmally low attendances in stadiums, as well as its mishandling of the visas for
the Pakistani cricket team, there has been a rampant display of rowdy behaviour on the part of
Indian fans that ranges from chanting communal slogans to not allowing Pakistani spectators to
cheer for their team and ripping apart a Bangladeshi spectator’s tiger toy.

The Lok Sabha is the lower house of India’s Parliament and its primary legislative body. States were initially
allocated electoral constituencies (which translate to seats for MPs in the Lok Sabha) based on their current
populations.
However, the 84th Amendment froze this allocation to 1971 levels to prevent penalizing states that successfully
implemented the Centre’s family planning initiatives after that year. Consequently, southern states like Tamil Nadu
and Kerala, which effectively executed these programs, now have more MPs than their present populations warrant,
while northern states such as Madhya Pradesh have fewer MPs.
But starting in 2031, this freeze will expire, and India will resume redistricting every ten years, ensuring that states
get Lok Sabha seats that reflect states’ current populations.

The ‘Adopt a Heritage: Apni Dharohar, Apni Pehchaan’ scheme is an initiative of the Ministry of
Tourism, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Survey of India.
Under it, the government invites entities, including public sector companies, private sector firms
as well as individuals, to develop selected monuments, and heritage and tourist sites across India.
Development of these tourist sites calls for providing and maintaining basic amenities. For
example, the State Bank of India has sponsored Connaught Place, while the Dalmia Group has
sponsored the Red Fort.

Archives play a central role in shaping our perceptions of the past. Hence, it is also vital
that we ask a number of critical questions about what a given archive may leave out, for
what purposes it was assembled in the first place, and what this means about the stories it
enables historians to tell.
A prominent example of these tensions surfaces in the work of historians of antebellum
slavery in the United States. Archival documents like bills of sale, and auction notices for
slaves are among the primary source materials out of which this group of historians has
gained insight into the past. But these are documents that were initially generated and kept
as part of a system that existed to uphold the system of slavery, not to provide a rich
accounting of the voices and lives of the people who were being bought, sold, auctioned,
and freed.

‘Let it Rot’ refers to a strategy proposed by South Korean cultural critic Yu Hong-Jun to deal with
monuments commemorating Japanese imperialism in South Korea, especially the Japanese
Government General Building. Proponents of this idea believe that the best way to deal with
problematic monuments is to allow them to fall into disrepair and eventual ruin. In India, though
not necessarily by deliberate action, monuments to British imperialism have been subjected to
this treatment, left to rust and rot as trash.

Body positivity refers to the acceptance of a person's own body, no matter what shape, size or ability it has, leading to a positive body image through unconditional self-love.
On the other hand, the body neutrality movement does not feature constant positivity, but an acceptance of the body as it is, without loving or hating it.

Currently, the University of Delhi admits students into its constituent colleges on the basis of their scores in a CUET (Common University Entrance Test) Examination, which is a set of tests taken by high school students to gain admission into a central university. Before this, admission to various colleges was based on the percentages scored in class 12 board examinations.

For the purposes of this debate, a “gifted” child is a child who displays exceptional talent in a discipline. In some countries, “gifted” children study in special classes that function on accelerated learning techniques.

Category 1: Literature that reflects and amplifies the identities of a reader, or literature that a reader can relate to. Different literatures perform this function for different identities. For example, Moonlight as an example of such literature for a black gay individual.

Category 2: Literature that allows the individual to transcend the boundaries of their individual identities, by allowing them to explore new worlds and possibilities through inhabiting perspectives they do not identify with. For example, a white child reading Arabian Nights.