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Entries by Sandip Roy from 02/2013

Goodbye Wrestling: How the IOC Betrayed Its Olympic Soul

| Posted 02.13.2013 | Sports
Read More: Modern Pentathlon, Ioc, Jordan Burroughs, Wrestling, Olympics, Olympic Wrestling, Olympics Core Sports, Sports News

The decision to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport is about a committee snubbing its nose at a sport that has drawn young people of less than privileged backgrounds, from small towns and villages, with little fancy equipment.

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A Sorry Apology: David Cameron at Jallianwala Bagh

| Posted 02.20.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: India, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, David Cameron, UK Politics News

David Cameron thinks that the massacre that happened at Jallianwala Bagh in India was a "deeply shameful event in British history." In my condolence ...

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Diamonds Are Forever... British: Why Cameron Can't Give India Its Koh-i-noor

| Posted 02.22.2013 | World
Read More: India, Elgin Marbles, David Cameron, Colonialism, Returnism, Kohinoor, World News

India, you can look but don't even dream about getting the Koh-i-noor back. Instead David Cameron has given India a parting gift -- a post-colonial word -- returnism.

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