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Scrooged: Wikipedia Editors Neglect Christmas-Related Articles
24 Dec 2020
Although corporate media who praise Wikipedia as a counter to “fake news” have simultaneously criticized it for perceived gaps in coverage on gender and race, the site also shows a gap in its coverage of Christmas, the most widely-celebrated holiday on Earth other than New Year’s Day. In contrast to the generally under-developed nature of the site’s Christmas content, articles covering video games and the show
South Park are generally more developed.
Exemplifying the poor state of Wikipedia articles relating to Christmas is how the “today’s featured article” slot on the site’s front page has rarely displayed a Christmas-related article even on Christmas Day.
SeevagaVazhuthi with actor-politician Kamal Haasan and the string art portrait | Photo Credit:
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SeevagaVazhuthi spends several hours with nails and threads to create string art portraits, a nascent art form. His recent work involves Kamal Haasan and 13,000 nails
Actor-politician Kamal Haasan stares out of a wooden board in an intricate eight feet tall portrait; created by Coimbatore-based artist SK Seevaga Vazhuthi, this is a string art of the veteran actor made on a grid of 13,000 nails. “It took me three days just to hammer the nails on the board,” he says.
Black threads criss-cross around nails, and the result is a larger-than-life portrait the product of 250 hours of labour over 28 days. It is a fan’s tribute to an icon, someone whom I have admired from my childhood ,” says Seevaga, noting how dinner time conversations at his home still includes Kamal versus Rajini debates.“ I belong to Kamal sir’s camp,” he laughs.
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The year 2020 has been so dramatic that mere words are not enough to capture its uniqueness, absurdness, and plain scariness. It needs phrases. And not surprisingly, the top phrases of 2020 seem to fall into two neat catastrophic categories: health and politics. And one can’t forget the inevitable categories: life and future.
HEALTH
Definition: CO for corona; VI for virus; D for disease; 19 for 2019.
Origin: Ironically, we had never even heard of it in 2019, although there were already some rumblings of the disease in China. And even when we first became aware of it in early 2020, we were referring to it as “the coronavirus”. Then on February 11th, Dr. Tedros (Director-General of WHO) declared it officially as Covid-19. Many of us who had grown used to calling it “the coronavirus” were disturbed to learn that there are also other coronaviruses. And we were more perturbed by the suffix “19”. Does that mean there could be a “covid-2
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