22 year-old part-time student and retail manager, Anna* — like an increasing number of young women — booked a cosmetic surgery holiday to Thailand, but her budget breast implant operation was more than she bargained for. “When I got to the hospital, I was pretty shocked with what I …
Read More »Issue 4, Volume 59, 2013 – Digital Edition
This issue is now available as a Digital Edition on Issuu.
Read More »Infographic: An already unbalanced Debate
The front cover of Tharunka Vol. 59, No. 3 was posted on Facebook. We analyzed the comments that were made on that post to bring you this infographic. The post can be found here: bit.ly/FoetalRightsBill
Read More »No Class— Class War
Twelve minutes. That’s how many minutes I get paid to mark a one-thousand-word essay: to read it, mark it, and give feedback. And then I repeat the process, once over one-hundred times. I doubt that I have ever managed to mark an essay within the given time limit, and I …
Read More »And then it just Hit Me.
Thirty years ago, five points of light appeared on the Soviet Union’s early detection system for incoming ballistics. The attack was recorded 80km south-east of Moscow in a small military centre named Serpukhov-15, the western control for Oko: a satellite system designed to monitor missile launches from mainland United States. …
Read More »The Real Cost of Blaming the Victim
On St Patrick’s Day, in Steubenville, Ohio, two high schoolers were found guilty of raping a sixteen-year-old girl at a party in August, 2012. In this case, there was a YouTube video of other high schoolers laughing about the assault, describing how they had witnessed it, and how the victim …
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