Apr 2, 2021
The contest witnessed double the participation this year, with a total of 20,000 registrations from over 1200 colleges. A total of 96 students from 50 teams were shortlisted through three rounds of intense challenges, where they were assessed on their critical and strategic thinking.
The final winners of the different challenges were: Mukul Singh and Shrey Bansal from IIT Delhi won the IT challenge; Atul Sharma from SIOM won the Analytics Challenge; Raksha Agrawal and Iqbal Naseem from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur won the Strategy Challenge and Rishabh Nagori and Jay Patel from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode emerged as winners for the Finance Challenge.
Backstory: The Kashmir Model to Discipline Indian Media
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
Representative image. Photo: Reuters/Arko Datta
Rights13/Feb/2021
âIf democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from usâ¦What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over oneâs own life and authorship of oneâs own experience.â
~ Shoshana Zuboff,
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
What is striking about recent developments in India is the manner in which the media, both legacy and social, have become entangled with the politics of the day. In fact, they have become the site upon which politics plays out.