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Masala Dosa to Die For - Nytimes

Review by Naureen Khan

The Masala Dosa to Die For article warms up with a brief description of the restaurant and its special South Indian cuisines especially its Masala Dosa as the title suggests. The article has a creative way of describing about the main lead of the story, the owner of the restaurant, P. Rajagopal through the words of others. He is introduced by one of his rivals, quoting Rajagopal as a legend. The article takes the story back and forth, informing the audience not only about the management of Saravana Bhavan restaurant but also the society transformation.

Detail description of the delicacy and the narrative style portraying the hardship of Rajagopal as a young boy who began an earlier career working in a restaurant to now who has chains of his own restaurant. The transition in the article flows smoothly narrating the history, culture and people’s views. The article has subheads that give a personal touch of the writer, as he puts himself in the frame and narrates his experience, mainly his encounter with the legend. The article has variety of quotes from an employee to a historical scholar.

The profile of Rajagopal contains a positive analysis of what people have gathered about him through their experience and from what they benefit from his company. They are different contrast that balances the article from words of praise to factual analysis of the murder that he committed. The article shows the interrelation of the international expansion of his restaurant with his trails for murder. It's a self explanatory description of how big and profitable his business was even when he was in jail.  

To keep the reader engrossed, the writer starts to describe the murderous love story. The narration runs like a movie with vivid descriptions. There is also a casual interview that follows and informs the reader a lot about Rajagopals character. The writer research can be understood when he talks about the special food delivery in jail for Rajagopal. 

The article has described the journey of the Legend’s rise from a low caste to a high class scandalous life and his narrative style keeps the story intact while giving an impression of the society and leaving questions for the readers to think about.

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Government Efforts creates more Women participation in Physical Contact Sports

Women participation in boxing and wrestling has been on increase for the past five years. It is not only to their aspiration, to create their status and be regarded as equal to male athletes but with government's encouragement, women and their families have started to take up these sports seriously.

Women in physical contact sports have started to be recognized internationally due to which the state governments have made new sports policies catering to their interests.

Haryana is known as one of the main hub for women wrestlers and boxers. Many families enroll their daughters in these sports because with status comes money and with international medals comes a secured future for these women.

One of the government employed coach for women in combat sports, Sashi Singh feels that in a male-dominated arena of sports , women have made their name and broken the stereotypes. Famous athletes like Mary Kom have been an inspiration for these young women. Sashi a boxer himself has been training young women to compete in national and international level at the Tau Devi Lal stadium, Gurgoan. His home town, Bhiwani, Haryana is filled with many government and private institutes for training of women wrestlers and boxers.

(More: Audio of Sashi Singh, Coach, Women upliftment)

The State Governments of Haryana, Manipur and Sports Authority of India have started to give high priority to the promotion of sports in India. Haryana state's boxers and wrestlers are scripted to have amazing success stories, creating international curiosity and respect.

The sports policy aims to enable the Government to promote sports with great opportunities to emerging and promising sports persons. The government continues to build new sports infrastructure as well upgrade the existing ones and provide many facilities and incentives to grow interest in the younger generation for increasing participation.

Naresh Kumar, a father of a young boxer, dreams of seeing his daughter in police services and with full dedication encourages his 15 year old daughter to box her way through medals. Saniya has recently won a state championship and has made her father proud but she, like her father also wants to become a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and earn a name and a permanent source of income.

(More: Audio of Naresh Kumar, boxing can get a secured future for her daughter)

Like Naresh, many families encourage their daughter to take up wrestling and boxing to have a secured future. The government provides employment opportunities for athletes who have won medals internationally. Geeta Phogat, wrestler after winning medals in Commonwealth Games also got her post in women police services.

It does not end only here but there will be increments according to their positions (first, second and third) in recognized National / International competition including retirement benefits. A secured future is one of the main reasons for the rise of women in physical contact sports especially in Haryana.

The cash awards and other incentives are also given to the medal winners of national and international competitions by Sports Department. The highest cash award being Two crore for gold in Olympics, One crore in Asian Games and 70 lakhs in Commonwealth Games. A national gold medallist wins 15,000 rupees. Recently in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the Haryana state government announced cash awards of Rs 1 crore, Rs 50 lakh and Rs 25 lakh for gold, silver and bronze medal winners and also a cash award of Rs 5 lakh for all state participants. Such enormous encouragement from the state government is bound to drive youngsters to take up sports as their career.

The cash incentives and employment opportunities from the government have been a big factor in growth of more female wrestlers and boxers. Many awards like Arjuna award, Bhim award etc also come with cash rewards. So, athletes get motivated to perform their best in order to create a name for them and also get financially stable. They are even given cars as rewards and sometimes houses as well. International recognition for a state is a pride and Haryana as per its sports policies rewards its players which gives a zeal for the athletes to give more reasons for the nation to be proud of them.

There are many other facilities also provided to women in physical contact sports like coaches are provided for training, new equipments, students are given scholarship for maximum of 3000 rupees for a year, medical facilities and even bus concession. For encouragement of women participation, Women Sports Festivals are being organized at block, district and state level.

Women in such sports have seen a change in the last decade and have faced criticism from the society. But with all the hassles, women continue to follow their dreams. Their parents supported them and encouraged them to pursue a sport that was only known for men. Indian female boxing and wrestling has international recognition due to the national and state government’s efforts by creating a platform for females to step out and create a new vision for themselves.

National women wrestlers' coach Kripa Shanker says, “Wrestling and boxing are no longer a male sport, females are making are country proud and the governments' incentive is one of the real reasons for more and more female participation.”

(More: Audio of Kripa Shankar, Government created opportunity)

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Women Athletes bring glory to India

Women boxers and wrestlers are taking down every stereotype associated with them, one punch at a time. With rising fear of women security in India, these women in physical contact sports have given the country something to be proud of. Bringing international glory in various sporting events across the globe, the trend of participation and winning has shown an encouraging rise.

Starting from a clean slate which stayed empty for quite a while, the Indian women boxers and wrestlers have brought with them all the three precious metals – gold, silver and bronze. Wrestlers and boxers such as Geetika Jakhar, Vinesh, Sonika Kaliraman, Pinki Jagra and Mary Kom have created ripples in the sporting industry which has led people to sit up and take notice of the sports. Both the private and public players are interested to take this forward. The selection camps are held annually throughout the country.

Rising from rural areas, amid scarcity of proper training resources, most of these women train hard and get to represent their clubs and countries. This story chronicles the rise of women participation in physical contact sports. After a dismal start at the initial stages of women physical contact sports, through the years, the medals have gone up significantly.

Here's a low-down share of gold, silver and bronze since the last five editions of Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and Olympics.

Women wrestling in India has seen a lot of action in recent times. The number of women participants in wrestling events, both national and international, has increased through the years owing to favorable government policies, an encouraging environment at home, financial incentives and a grown interest in media.

The last decade is itself a case study as to how the number of women participating in wrestling has increased gradually, though with minor hiccups. In 2001, India had just 11 women participants. There was no medal at any of the major international tournaments.

In 2002, the total participation increased to 21 women wrestlers, with 3 women - Kamini Yadav, Alka Tomar and Gursharan Preet Kaur - representing India at the Asian Games. The number touched an all-time high of 53 women wrestlers participating in various wrestling events, in the year 2012. 5 women wrestlers represented India at the Olympics. In 2013, the figure stands at a decent participation of 43 women. 

The upward graph of participation denotes a positive trend of women breaking stereotypes and treading on territories usually associated with men. Accolades and awards have followed the rise in international representation. The number of Golds, Silvers and Bronzes has been getting better through the years, bringing more attention to the sport and eventually encouraging more people towards the sport.

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Audio Interview: Asset two

Interview with the Wrestling Federation Coach for Women Wrestlers

The inhibitions associated with women in wrestling have now started to break. Kripashankar Bishnoi, coach of the women's wrestling team explains why and how this change has happened and is contributing to the rising performance of the players.

Attributing to a mindset change, the support of the Haryana Government, infrastructure progess, and continuous family support and financial backing,  its not far that the Indian women in physical contact sports, in this case, wrestling would make a mark for themselves and for India.

Interview with the Father of Geeta Phogot, Mahavir Singh

Mahavir Singh a former wrestler has been an inspiration for his four daughters. His daughter Geeta and Babita have won international medals in women wrestling and will be competing in the upcoming Asian games.

The audio interview of Mahavir is based on the growth of women taking up physical contact sports and families support that prompted the girls to not only take up a profession of their interest but also after being criticised by the society the support of the father led his daughter to be internationally recognized.

In the interview, Mahavir talks about the changing mindset of the society, rise in wrestling, his motivational attitude towards his daughter, their achievements and women’s future prospects.

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Milestones of Indian Women Wrestling: Asset One

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Story: The growth of female participation in physical contact sports

Asset: Data Visualization

We will be using the available data on women wrestlers and women boxers since 2001. The visualisation which we will have are the following:

1. The number of women representing India in national and International events in both the sports along with the results in order to clearly show the rising trend - Bar graph/Line Graph. This visualisation with the aid of Google Fusion Tables would enable us to put across the point that women in physical contact sports are indeed, growing.

2. The medal tally has also grown, which is an interesting story to narrate and show - Pictograph

3. Timeline of milestones in boxing and wrestling - Timeline

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Multimedia Project, Women Wrestling In India, Shoot 1

Does the rise of women wrestlers in India point towards a society where women are being portrayed equally competitive?

With this story in mind, we decided to divide the work between our team. Naureen and Sharib handled the telephonic interviews and Aaqib and Jayashree went to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) in East Patel Nagar. Sanat participated in Hacks/Hackers #dbootcamp workshop.

The audio interviews managed to be taken for the coach of the Indian women wrestling team, Kripashankar Bishnoi. The interview involved his personal life and how he got affiliated with the team, how significant has been the role of coaches, how the perceptions about women in wrestling has changed and how the state of Haryana has a lot to do with it.

Another audio interview was taken of Geeta Phogat’s father and how the family faced criticism from society. In the interview, Mahavir Singh talks about the changing mindset of the society, his motivational attitude towards his daughter, their achievements and their future prospects. 

Sanat took part in a 3 day workshop over the weekend to better understand how tools could be used to tell data driven stories and visualize data, making stories more interactive and engaging. Through interaction with various professionals and training sessions, it has enlarged the the possibilities of the project.

This field visit helped us learn more about what goes behind the scene and that helped us gain a better understanding of our subject.

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How to use a Timeline

TIMELINE

Timeline is a creative and simple way of telling a story through time. 

Procedure:-

1. Click on make timeline.

2. Click on Google spreadsheet template and sync or sign in with Google account.

3. A spread sheet will appear. Click on use this template; make a copy of the template from the file menu option.

4. In the start date, write the date when the event was started and the end date of the event in the next option. If there is no end date then leave it blank.

5. In the headline, write the heading of the particular slide.

6. In text, write the description.

7. In media option, paste the url from where the photo is uploaded. One can upload the personal photo or a photo from the web on your personal wordpress.com and copy the embedded link from the gallery and paste on the media of the spreadsheet.

8. In media credit, credit the source

9. In media caption, caption the photo

10. In media thumbnail, add the photo with the above media procedure.

 11. To add more slides click on add or no. of row needed.

12. One can change the font style size color settings.

13. Once the spreadsheet is ready then on file and click on publish to web and click on start publish and republish.

14. Copy the embedded code and go to the timeline website.

15. Paste the code on the Google spreadsheet url and click on preview.

16. If any changes need to be made, go back on the spreadsheet, make the changes and then republish it.

17. The embedded code in the 4th point on the timeline website, copy that once previewed and paste on the post of tumblr. Click on html and publish it.

 Loopholes/Problems:-

1. If a copy of spreadsheet is not made, there are high chances of losing the data.

2. In the media, the photo has to be first uploaded on a site and then embedded code is copied, or else there will be issues of the image not available.

3. In the thumbnail, small images are uploaded

4. The embedded code on tumblr many times doesn’t appear and has to be refreshed a no. of times.

5. Once posted on tumblr, the theme has to be chosen accordingly that elongates the timeline with text and photo side by side rather compress the timeline. The points have to be short and crisp.

http://naurikhan.tumblr.com/post/93452794525/my-trip-to-the-un

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How to use Story Map

STORYMAP

Storymap is a site where u can tell a story through locations, with simple and condensed text for easier understanding.

Procedure:-

1. Click, make storymap. Make your account and sync it with your Google account. Write the heading in the new section.

2. On the first page which will be the cover, write the heading in d heading section and its description below.

3. In the slide option, one can change background colour and also change the background image in the below option and click upload.

4. In the Media option, one can post url of the video or upload an image which is relevant.

5. Credit the photo to its source and give caption in the below option.

6. The same goes for all the sides, more slides can b added wit add slide option and in the search option write the specific location.

7. From the option menu, one can also change the font. You can also preview each slide on the above option preview.

8. Once all done, the cover page will show links of all the location. Save it and click publish changes.

9. In the share option, u can directly share it to different site or copy the embedded link to post on tumbler and other sites.

Loopholes/ Problems:-

1. Once published, the locations are not correctly shown. Only after a couple of times refreshed, the correct location pointed.

2. Once posted on tumblr, the theme has to be chosen accordingly that elongates the map rather compress it. The points have to be short and crisp.

3. In tumblr the pictures have to be chosen of similar size or else the photographs will be out of frame.

http://naurikhan.tumblr.com/post/93954723525/the-last-10-commonwealth-games-host-performance

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How to use Rebel Mouse Site.

REBEL MOUSE

To use Rebelmouse, (with align to twitter list) one first needs to make a list on twitter to get a collective news or talks on a particular topic.

1. First in twitter, make a list in the list option and then search the people or pages that you want to make the member of that list. Once the list is made, twitter will have all its feeds.

2. Open the rebelmouse.com site and make an account. Make a new site to get all the relevant topics that one requires.

3. In the site option, click on launch new site, write a user name, which will be the topic and save.

4. In edit site, write the site name, meta keywords which are the main hash tags and descriptions of the site.

5. In the content source option, if your taking a list from twitter paste the url on the twitter space, click on add and click publish on. To get pages from facebook, paste the urls and also hastag for easier search. Same goes for instagram, flicker, youtube, tumblr etc.

With this, in your own site on rebelmouse, you can get feeds from all the social sites.

6. In the section option, click add and on the page title, write the title of the sub section you want. For eg. in your site of travelling the world, two sub section can be created; beautiful places and hotel resort.

7. In the setting put the description and create tags. Make sure both tags of sub sections are different so the same content doesnt over flow in both. One can change the setting with public and private.

Then on your site dashboard, you and viewers can see all the feeds from the twitter list, facebook pages, flicker images etc and also the sub sections.

Problems:-

1. In the sites, one has to log in with all of the social feeds in order to get the relevant information, if not then nothing shows up on the dashboard.

2. In the content feeds, once the url is added, in the publish on option, if its on drafts then dashboard remains empty so publish tweets should be clicked.

Loopholes:-

1. Rebelmouse takes a lot of time to upload feeds from the all sites and even for the sections to appear.

2. If in the section tags are same then it will show the same feeds

Conclusion:-

Rebelmouse is a good way to collect information from most of the social sites and one can also keep many sites and then tune it differently. It’s a good creative way to keep intact with your interest’s information.

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THE LAST 10 COMMONWEALTH GAMES HOST PERFORMANCE

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My Trip to the UN

One of the most memorable moments of my school life has been the United Nation Conference visit. The 15 day tour to America has not only given exposure but also gave me an understanding of the world beyond Indian boundaries. The Timeline is created to get an insight of the beautiful memories I gathered in a trip that can never be forgotten.

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Age Group of students of MACJ, Jamia

The Bar graph represents the Age Group of Students.

The information was taken personally and feed-in the Google Spreadsheet. Through Google Drive the spreadsheet was circulated for more feed-in’s. Through Google Fusion table, the spreadsheet was uploaded and the visualization was made.

The aggregate age was taken by count i.e group of students. The Bar Graph was selected as by just looking at the bar graph one can analyze which group of age are most of the student. Once the visual is displayed, the embedded code can be copied to post the html on the blog.

The aggregate by, value, count was initially hard to understand and did not give the right result due to wrong selection. Once the aggregate was selected with count, the results were out. Also once clicked on the embedded code, the visual would change and the copied html would be the wrong visual, so once copied few times and posted, finally the right visual was displayed on the blog.

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Marks Comparison of Students of MACJ, Jamia

A Timeline for a comparative study between students marks from 2009 to 2013.

The information was taken personally and feed-in the Google Spreadsheet. Through Google Drive the spreadsheet was circulated for more feed-in’s. Through Google Fusion table, the spreadsheet was uploaded and the visualization was made.

In the visualization option, timeline was selected as it gives a better understanding for comparison between two and more students. The year was aggregate with the value of names of the students i.e group of student was selected together to get a comparative study. Once the visual is displayed, the embedded code can be copied to post the html on the blog.

Initially, only one name was displayed in the visual as other names were not selected with shift/control and select option. Also, in the visual, max should be selected in order to get all the marks together. These both were discovered after few trials and errors.

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State of Origin of Students of MACJ,Jamia

India's Map represents the state of origin of the students.

The information was taken personally and feed-in the Google Spreadsheet. Through Google Drive the spreadsheet was circulated for more feed-in’s. Through Google Fusion table, the spreadsheet was uploaded and the visualization was made. 

In the visualization option, select intensity map in which the aggregate of state by count was further selected. The map was the best choice for defining the location of every student and thus grouping them together for easier understanding. Once the visual is displayed, the embedded code can be copied to post the html on the blog.

The problem that initially occurred was that the few names of the state were not being displayed. The error was that they were not written with accordance of the map, like written as Kashmir or New Delhi but had to be written as Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir. Once corrected the state and No. of students were displayed.

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Age Group of students of MACJ, Jamia

The Pie Chart represents the Age Group of Students.

The information was taken personally and feed-in the Google Spreadsheet. Through Google Drive the spreadsheet was circulated for more feed-in's. Through Google Fusion table, the spreadsheet was uploaded and the visualization was made.

The aggregate age was taken by count i.e group of students. Pie chart was selected as the visual for easier understanding, as the color and division indicates the age aspect with percentage when the mouse is pointed. Once the visual is displayed, the embedded code can be copied to post the html on the blog. But rather, I toke a screen shot of the pie chart for later reference.

Then, Google Code Playground was signed in and in the visualization option, pie chart was selected which indicated code and a visual. The code was replaced by the information taken from the Google spread sheet and the Google Fusion table screen shot. For example, age of 21, 22, 23 etc were mentioned with no. of students following in that category. Once the information is feed, the codes are run. A visual representation is shown. The codes are then saved and from the edit HTML, the HTML is copied. The HTML is then posted on the blog.

Understanding the aggregate options and coding was difficult but practice can make it easy. Getting the Pie chart from Google Code Playground to display on the blog was difficult but regular try later made it possible.

// <![CDATA[ google.load("visualization", "1", {packages:["corechart"]}); google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); function drawChart() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Age', 'No of Students'], ['21', 4], ['22', 7], ['23', 3], ['24', 1], ['25', 1], ['26', 1] ]); var options = { title: 'Students Age' }; var chart = new google.visualization.PieChart(document.getElementById('piechart')); chart.draw(data, options); } // ]]>