New Delhi: A haunting photo clicked by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter for Time magazine's LightBox section has gone viral. The photo shows an unidentified couple in a final embrace with half of their bodies buried in rubble and a trickle of blood running down one eye of the man like a tear drop.
The photograph appears in this week's TIME International alongside an essay by David Von Drehle. The magazine quoted Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam as saying that the "image, while deeply disturbing, is also hauntingly beautiful. An embrace in death, its tenderness rises above the rubble to touch us where we are most vulnerable."
Akhter said she tried desperately but did not find any clue to the couple's identity.
Dozens of bodies recovered on Wednesday from the collapsed garment factory building were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said, as the death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster topped 800....
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Washington: After a long association with the Yale University, noted Indian American writer and journalist Fareed Zakaria has resigned from its governing body to focus on journalistic career. Zakaria, who received his bachelor's degree from the university, was associated with the Yale Corporation for past six years. The decision of Zakaria to shed some of his non-journalistic responsibilities has come close on the heels of accusations of plagiarism against him....
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