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Udbhavi Balakrishna

Stories by Udbhavi Balakrishna

The Absent Parent
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> Parental absence can occur due to distance, divorce or death, all of which may be unavoidable circumstances, something a child has no influence ove ...
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Kannada Rajyotsava: Reasons To Celebrate Being Kannadiga
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
Today marks the 64th year since this beautiful land emerged as one state for all Kannada-speaking people. On November 1, 1956, several regions merged t ...
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Perseverance can overcome mountains: The story of the Flying Sikh
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>Milkha Singh, popular as The Flying Sikh, is a legendary sports icon and Padma Shri awardee. He was born on November 21, 1929 (some records state 1 ...
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Transcending Boundaries Through Dance
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>Traditional art forms have admirers across all age groups and backgrounds: this was proved yet again by an audience gathered at Alliance Francaise i ...
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Witness and Leave: The Sad Bystander Culture
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>“Once, a woman had jumped in front of a train at a train station. A crowd had assembled but nobody stepped forward to check her pulse. I ended up c ...
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NSoJ Founder Timothy Franklyn Announced As Obama Scholar At Columbia University
Udbhavi Balakrishna  Rishika Menon   | 
<p> <i> By Rishika Menon and Udbhavi Balakrishna </i> <p> Bangalore, India - On Wednesday, August 26, 2020, the Obama Foundation Scholars Program a ...
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Social Distancing And The Loss Of Personal Spaces
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
The COVID-19 lockdown in India has affected people of all age groups and sections of society. For young persons with pre-existing mental health issues, ...
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Read To Unjudge : The Human Library
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>A library of living, breathing books, that tell you their story is perhaps every bibliophile's dream. And that is precisely what awaited eager read ...
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Beyond the blue waters
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>The Mogaveera is a traditional fishing community, the members of which involve themselves in marine activities in and around coastal Karnataka, mai ...
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English tragedy on Kannada soil
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<p> Mangaluru: On Wednesday, the four-century-old Shakespearean tragedy <i> Macbeth </i> was brought to life in a unique blend of Western and Indian cu ...
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Newsrooms and the New Normal
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<p> “One of the finest and most committed journalists that the state has produced,” said Mr Baba Prasad, former Associate Editor of The Hindu and the D ...
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Supposedly a giant leap for diversity?
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>In a meeting held on August 17, the Collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana recommended nine names to the Centre, three of which w ...
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Conversations around conservation
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<p> Ayushi Jain is a full-time research conservationist based out of Dehradun. Born and raised in Agra, she has been volunteering and interning with wi ...
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The Cs that plague the world
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> World leaders assembled virtually last week at the annual UN meeting to talk about a worldwide issue that has been plaguing us for centuries, but o ...
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A Day Without My Favourite..
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>The pandemic has affected societies all over and local businesses have taken a massive hit. Among them, local newspaper distributors and vendors ha ...
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Woes remain in the little crevices where policy cannot reach
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> Kicking a plume of smoke behind him, he eases into the parking spot, taking care to slow down and put a safe distance between his vehicle and the o ...
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Through the eyes of a reporter
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> “The essential quality of journalism is truthful reporting,” said Mr Rajesh Ramachandran, speaking in the 7th session of the NSoJ Virtual Talks ser ...
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Celebrating Literature Through Discourse
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>Bangalore: “The greatest disservice we would be doing is to allow ourselves to be reduced to a desert in which only one type of idea flourishes, onl ...
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Aiming for the perfect shot
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<p> <i> “The key ingredient is patience; you have to wait and hope to get that perfect shot,”</i> said Mr Kalyan Varma, speaking at the ninth talk in t ...
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Were these required at all?
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> Mr Vinay K Sreenivasa, a Bengaluru-based advocate, joined students at the NSoJ quadrangle for a discussion on the farm laws that came into force on ...
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Between a rock and a hard place
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> Newsrooms around the world have faced innumerable challenges over the years. Technology, development, and innovation have become *the* buzzwords i ...
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The Final Trump-Biden Face-Off
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> The final 90-minute debate between the two Presidential candidates: President Donald Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden commenced at 21:00 h ...
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Chronicling Life in Lockdown
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p>It has been over four months since I had last seen my hostel room, my sister or a bowl of my favourite flavoured rice. Four months of waking up to p ...
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In the era of changing newsrooms, newspapers are here to stay
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> “There are no rules to being a journalist but there aren’t any substitutes for truth, accuracy, and hard work,” said Mr Chaitanya Gudipaty, the onl ...
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Maya Penn: A genius multi-hyphenate with a vision
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> CEO, Entrepreneur, Artist, Animator, Environmentalist, Girls Rights Activist, Designer, Coder, Author, Philanthropist - the list does not end with ...
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The Tyranny of Many Things - An Episode
Udbhavi Balakrishna    | 
<p> Nikesh Murali, award-winning voice actor, writer and audio fiction creator and voice of critically-acclaimed horror storytelling podcast ‘Indian No ...
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