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By Ranjita Biswas

Like every year, this year too, 2018, is at its fag end. As usual, ‘Looking- back’ pieces highlighting the events of the past year would be appearing in the feature pages of newspapers and magazines. Disasters like earthquakes and volcanoes, life stories of young boys getting trapped in a tunnel and the reality- show kind of rescue operation, which star footballer of Europe has changed club and which high-profile coach got sacked and why, social diary of weddings of celebrities, from the British Royal family to Bollywood royals, would figure in them as also ‘loss and gain’ in the political arena as in India recently. And inevitably, by mid- 2019, half of these ‘breaking news’ items will be forgotten.