{"id":700,"date":"2007-10-18T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=700"},"modified":"2007-10-18T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:30:31","slug":"some-more-gems-from-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2007\/10\/18\/some-more-gems-from-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Gems from Students\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University corrections continue&#8230; and i relieve the utter tedium by jotting down interesting bits from answers. Here are today&#8217;s picks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As soon as TV media came into picture, most of the media had fallen week<\/li>\n<li>Then to there is no death for newspaper media<\/li>\n<li>In the field of politics it is giving us recent info (on television news channels)<\/li>\n<li>Youth magazine is generally famoused among youth &#8211; eg. 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