Science Reporter, November 2013

Contents

REACTIONS......................................6
EDITORIAL........................................7
SPECTRUM ......................................8
HUMOR.............................................30
PUZZLE CORNER............................50
INVENTIONS ....................................53
ANIMAL BYTES.................................54
INDIAN SCIENTISTS.........................56
FUN QUIZ...........................................58
WHAT'S NEW....................................60
CROSSWORD..................................61

                                                                                            

 Pratham Jain
V- C

 Bal Bharati Public School,

Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad    

Science Reporter- October 2013

DEPARTMENTS

REACTIONS ...................................… 6

EDITORIAL ....................................… 7

SPECTRUM ...................................… 8 

BOOK REVIEW ...............................29

POINT-COUNTERPOINT .............… 38

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ...............42

PUZZLE CORNER ........................… 50

INVENTIONS ...............................… 53

WILD HAVEN ................................ 54

INDIAN SCIENTISTS ....................… 56

FUN QUIZ ..................................... 58

WHAT'S NEW................................. 60

CROSSWORD ................................. 61

                                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                                                           Pratham Jain

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Sport Star : October 2013

Cover Story

 Farewells and fare thee wells 

Mumbai Indians, the champion team of the IPL, won the Champions League too! It was a fitting farewell gift to Sachin Tendulkar in his final season of the Twenty20 format! Vijay Lokapally takes stock. 

Cricket

FEATURE

a core player

With his well-documented injury problems, it seems rather certain that Shane Watson's long-term future lies more with his batting than bowling, writes Priyansh.

INTERVIEW

 unyielding fielding 

"If each guy saves me one run, it gives me ten runs. Margins in most 20-over games come down to three or four (runs)," Jonty Rhodes, the Mumbai Indians' coach, tells N. Sudarshan. 

Shooting

INTERVIEW/RONJAN SODHI

 80 per cent of shooting is between the ears

"I don't see myself continuing in the sport after the Rio Games. I want to give it my best shot and get that Olympic medal," says Khel Ratna Ronjan Sodhi in a chat with Kamesh Srinivasan. 

Rowing

FEATURE

 sculling success

The Indian rowers dish out a noteworthy performance in the Asian Championship in China recently, claiming one gold, two silver and two bronze medals. By V.V. Subrahmanyam. 

Boxing

FOCUS

the Mary Kom of Andhra

Nikhat Zareen is only 17… but she has decided to brave it out in boxing. V.V. Subrahmanyam profiles the teen. 

Athletics

FOCUS

 sprint, the glory of Tamil Nadu

There were quite a few sprinters from Tamil Nadu who felt special that evening in Kochi. Apart from Augustine, there were four others from the southern State who had sparkling gold medals dangling around their neck. By Stan Rayan.

ASIAN SCHOOLS MEET

India shines

There were some superb individual efforts from the Indian contingent at the Asian schools meet in Malaysia. P.K. Ajith Kumar has the details. 

Football

KICKING AROUND

 celebrating arsenal 

The principal director and shareholder of Arsenal today is the American billionaire, Stan Kroenke. There could hardly be a greater contrast than with Sir Henry Norris. Where Norris was dominant and dictatorial, Kroenke is almost always absent. By Brian Glanville.

STARWATCH

playing his part

Kieron Gibbs is now hoping a new health regime will help keep him injury free for Arsenal this season and could end with a recall to the England World Cup squad. By Jim van Wijk.

Steadily rising up the rungs

Despite making his first-team debut in April 2008, Jonjo Shelvey had to wait until Charlton's FA Cup third-round tie against Norwich in January 2009, for his first goal, one which made the 16-year-old the club's youngest ever goal-scorer. By Andrew Lawton. 

Chess

FOCUS

lalith, s fruitful journey

What is 20-year-old GM Lalith Babu doing to climb the chess rungs? J. R. Shridharan finds out.

FOCUS

making steady progress 

Koneru Humpy is pleased with her recent performances which propelled her rating back to 2600 from 2589, writes J.R. Shridharan.

Krish Chawla

V- C

Bal Bharati Public School, Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad

Magazine Sportstar: October 5 2013

Cover Story

Now, this prancing horse will have to gallop
All-round drivers of the calibre of Fernando Alonso are hard to come by in modern-day F1 racing. It is not always that a driver's performance — whether he has won, finished on the podium or off it — receives such compelling attention. By G.Raghunath. 

Cricket

PROFILE
a role model to core!
Vijay Lokapally spends some time with the "nice, obedient, down-to-earth" paceman, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, in Meerut.

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CLT20 DIARY
long ranger
In three matches, Misbah-ul-Haq alone scored more runs (195) than all his team-mates put together (190) and it exposed the lack of depth in one of the elite sides from Pakistan, writes Y. B. Sarangi. 

Tennis

APPRECIATION
forever young
Leander Paes has really shown what it takes to stay a champion and turn the staunchest of his critics into adoring fans. By Kamesh Srinivasan.

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FOCUS
 sania and her pet project
"I am greedy to keep winning. I mean this is the attitude of any professional sportsperson. Wanting more is the key to success," Sania Mirza tells V.V. Subrahmanyam in this interaction.

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when money isn't everything…..

In what's definitely a fine gesture, Sania Mirza has come forward to provide free training to the Deaflympics player Shaik Jafreen from Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. When Sania came to know about the plight of the passionate, ...

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FEATURE
unconventional guide
"It is a great feeling to share my experiences when many of the top 100 players (mostly women) come to me," says Christian Filhol, who has guided top players such as Mary Pierce, Elena Dementieva, Justine Henin, Marion Bartoli and Cara Black. By V.V. Subrahmanyam.

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FEATURE
nadal winning streak continue in 2014?
For Nadal, all along, in spite of his phenomenal exploits on clay and commendable displays on grass, it's the U.S. Open that has really marked significant shifts in his career. By N. Sudarshan. 

Table Tennis

INTER-INSTITUTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
a boost for the game
In a maiden step, an inter-institutional table tennis event was hosted in a district and the crowd and the players alike lapped up all. By Avinash Nair.

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FEATURE
showing promise
Akula Sreeja won a bagful of medals at tournaments held in Guatemala and El Salvador recently. By J.R. Shridharan. 

Football

KICKING AROUND
best of best
George Best drank immoderately and self-destructively. Saved once by an expert surgeon with a liver operation, he died after a string of sordid episodes. But at his peak, what a talent he was, recalls Brian Glanville.

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FOCUS
a star, but not yet a united legend
As games and goals are always used as a statistical yardstick to judge greatness, Wayne Rooney, irrespective of the future, has firmly established his position among footballing greats, writes Ayon Sengupta.

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In search of further glory
It will be yet another chapter in a colourful career for Samuel Eto'o, who has been playing at the highest level since 1998, writes Andrew McDermott.

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STARWATCH
Hungary for success
Determined to be part of the England squad for next summer's World Cup finals, Gareth Barry adds a wealth of experience to Everton's young side and by leaving Manchester City on loan in search of regular action, he has proved he still has the motivation and appetite. By Andrew Mcdermott. All-round drivers of the calibre of Fernando Alonso are hard to come by in modern-day F1 racing. It is not always that a driver's performance — whether he has won, finished on the podium or off it — receives such compelling attention. By G.Raghunath. 

Krish Chawla
V- C
Bal Bharati Public School, Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad

SPORT STAR MAGAZINE OCT.2013

Cover Story

Yuvraaj.. forever young...
Yuvraj Singh is back in the Indian limited overs squad, but with him the tale never stops.  It is a hard road but he is willing to walk it.

Cricket

End of the road
Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan — all pillars of the Indian team not many years ago — have over these last few months stared at unedifying 

conclusions to their fine careers. 

On The Ball

Srinivasan is a tough cookie

If at all the detractors of N. Srinivasan were to admire him for one quality, it will be his resilience amidst adversity. He was put under pressure from all quarters to step down on account of the supposed culpability of his son-in-law but he ... 

Cricket

Naturally drawn to cricketR. K. Pachauri's love for cricket has been life-long — evident from the two picture postcard-pretty cricket grounds he has helped to lay out at The Energy and Resources Institute's (TERI) gram at Gurgaon. 

Badminton

Ibl is just another tournament
The chief National coach emphasises the importance of having regular badminton camps apart from the IBL camp, writes J. R. Shridharan. 

Billiards & Snooker

Taking a cue from Gopi
"The cue sports academy (set to come up in Hyderabad soon) is sure to usher in a new chapter in snooker and billiards," says Capt. Mohan, the BSFI President. By V. V. Subrahmanyam. 

Archery

Shooting star
"She is a highly motivated archer with sharp focus. Her hunger for success is something I have not seen in other Indian archers," says Dharmendra Tiwary, the senior coach at the Tata Archery Academy, of Deepika Kumari. By S. Sabanayakan. 

Football

Keen to work hard
I have got real competition at the club. There are a lot of big names here. If I need to bide my time, I will bide my time, says James McCarthy who recently joined Everton from Wigan.

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Rags to riches
Rickie Lambert's story should inspire any player who has had to cope with rejection earlier in his career — and there could yet be a fairytale ending in Brazil this summer. By Andrew McDermott. 

Basketball

Competetive as ever
The 6'10" former star talks to Uthra Ganesan about his playing days, his involvement with the NBA after retirement and the purpose of his visit to India. 

Athletics

Snoring high
Gayathri Sivakumar, who has a personal best of 1.60m which she achieved in the Kerala State Championship a few weeks ago, has now left her sister, who is three years her senior, far behind and the others in her age group too. 

AMAN ARORA & KRISH CHAWLA

V-C

BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL,BRIJ VIHAR

Reader's Digest October- 2013

 

Reader's Digest October 2013

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Aman Arora
V- C
Bal Bharati Public School, Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad

Sport Star September- 2013

Cover Story

She has the complete package
Serena's 17th major at this year's U.S. Open, where she dropped just 16 games in six matches before the final, was further evidence that weeks short of her 32nd birthday she is more formidable than ever, writes S. Ram Mahesh.

Tennis

FOCUS
It's all about fighting spirit
It was remarkable that Bhuvana Kalva, who had not crossed the quarterfinal stage of the singles in the international circuit, played the semi-finals and final against quality opponents with great assurance and calm, writes Kamesh Srinivasan.

Sports Extra

Living a dream

If anyone had told V. A. Jagadeesh, a year ago, that he would become India's highest run-getter in domestic cricket and would play for India 'A', he would have laughed it off. He had a modest average in first class cricket, ...

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Darshan triumphs again

Some thrilling action was witnessed in this year's edition of the Madras Gymkhana Club-Sportstar golf tournament held in Chennai recently. This was particularly true of the competition in the Open category, which V. Darshan eventually ...

Kicking Around

KICKING AROUND
Money doesn't always talk
It seemed rash of Arsene Wenger before the derby game to criticise Spurs for having bought so many players; had Arsenal lost this would surely have been dismissed as sour grapes. But Arsenal won, making a point. By Brian Glanville.

Sepaktakraw FOCUS

Getting a kick out of 'leg volleyball'
India's good showing in the World Super Series is just the tonic that sepaktakraw needs to grow in the country, writes Vijay Lokapally.

Cricket

INTERVIEW
A child Samson!
In a State, Kerala, that doesn't have a clutch of cricketing icons to choose from, the 18-year-old Sanju Vishwanadh has become something of a hero. He isn't, however, keen on reading too much into the accolades. "I am recognised on the streets these days. It's nice that people appreciate me but I can't afford to get carried away," he says in this interaction with Arun Venugopal.

On The Ball

W.V. RAMAN COLUMN
Leave Sachin alone
The jig regarding the schedule between the BCCI and CSA has nothing to do with Sachin Tendulkar (in pic) really, but somehow he has to be the focal point.

Cricket

FEATURE
A gift from Kiwiland
When M. S. K. Prasad, Director, Andhra Cricket Association, approached Maria Frances Fahey to join hands and shore up the fortunes of Andhra women's cricket, she did not give much of a thought. She quickly packed her bags for an all-new experience. By J. R. Shridharan.

General

FOCUS
The IOC-IOA duel
The ball lies in the IOA's court and its members have to decide whether they want to resolve the impasse or bring further embarrassment for the country, writes Y. B. Sarangi.

Krish Chawla
V C
Bal Bharati Public School, Brij Vihar

Science Reporter September- 2013

DEPARTMENTS
REACTIONS ...................................… 6
EDITORIAL ....................................… 7
SPECTRUM ...................................… 8
HUMOUR ...................................… 48
PUZZLE CORNER ........................… 50
INDIAN SCIENTISTS ....................… 53
WILD HAVEN ................................ 54
INVENTIONS ..............................… 56
FUN QUIZ ..................................... 58
WHAT'S NEW................................. 60



Pratham Jain
V C
Bal Bharati Public School, Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad

Reader's Digest India -September 2013

Reader's Digest India -SEPTEMBER 2013 

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