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4 Sports Amity's Pride Save Environment THE GLOBAL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 4 Sports Plant more trees. Howzatt!?! Transfer toss Summer transfer window 2014 has been more than active with a record-breaking cash exchange. Milin Chandra, AISN, XI J, highlights major players who were up for grabs nding all the speculations, the Luis Suarez midfielder to fix the leakage in its rela- transfer window for the year Old club: Liverpool tively inexperienced defence. E2014-15 closed at a high of New club: Barcelona £857.7 million. Every year, the players Fee: £75 million Diego Costa switch camps for millions of Old club: Athletico Madrid dollars, leaving their fans He feeds on a diet of Italian and Serbian New club: Chelsea surprised and confused. footballers (Chiellini and Ivanovic) but Fee: £32 million The 2014-15 summer one can hardly deny that Suarez is one transfer window left many of the most gifted strikers in the recent With two goals in his first two games, football fans battling with simi- times. His fine goal-scoring with Liver- Costa, who joined the club in July this lar emotions. Like every year, the pool (82 goals in 133 appearances) got year has been in tremendous form so clubs tried to strengthen their squads him handpicked by Barcelona, who now far. His impressive display against for the upcoming season by breaking have a fearful strike force in the form of Chelsea in the Champions League the previous transfer records. Let’s take Neymar, Suarez and Messi. The king of prompted coach Jose Mourinho to grab a look at some of the most-talked about controversies was recently banned for up the 25-year-old Brazilian striker. He Real Madrid’s summer transfers. four months. Reports suggest that his is known for his physical strength, Gareth Bale first game for the Catalans will be the goal-scoring and ability to keep pos- in action James Rodriguez much-awaited El Clasico. session. With Costa, Hazard and Old club: AS Monaco Drogba, Chelsea’s attack will be a force New club: Real Madrid Angel Di Maria to reckon with. Fee: £63 million Old club: Real Madrid Top ten most expensive transfers of all time New club: Man United Romelu Lukaku James Rodriguez became one of Fee: £59.7 million Old club: Chelsea Name Club Fee the most expensive players after New club: Everton Gareth Bale Tottenham to Real Madrid £86m Gareth Bale when Real Madrid came Manchester United had a poor start to Fee: £28 million Cristiano Ronaldo Man Utd to Real Madrid £80m knocking on AS Monaco’s door for his the season as it managed to get two Luis Suarez Liverpool to Barcelona £75m signature. The 23-year-old made head- points from a total of three matches. The 21-year-old Belgium striker Neymar Santos to Barcelona £71.5m lines this summer when he scored some With Van Gaal’s 3-5-2 formation still Romelu Lukaku impressed Everton James Rodriguez Monaco to Real Madrid £63m spectacular goals for Colombia in the not clicking with the United team, in manager Roberto Martinez in his debut Angel di Maria Real Madrid to Man Utd £59.7m FIFA World Cup. His impressive style, came Di Maria from Real Madrid. Al- season, with 15 goals in 31 appearances Zlatan Ibrahimovic Inter Milan to Barcelona £59m technique, vision and playing skills though Manchester United have bol- against teams like Liverpool, Arsenal Kaka AC Milan to Real Madrid £56m prompted Madrid to shell out a huge fee stered their attack with the arrival of the and Manchester City. A loanee, Lukaku Edinson Cavani Napoli to PSG £55m for the Colombian, making him more 26-year-old Argentinean, questions are was signed by Everton in July this year Radamel Falcao Atletico Madrid to Monaco £51m expensive than fellow Colombian team being raised whether Manchester and setting a new club transfer record mate Radamel Falcao. United should have bought a defensive as well. G T Source: thetelegraph.co.uk Amity’s pride Humans of Amity Boy with the humane touch His ardent love for Amity and Amitians translated into a page called Humans of Amity. The Facebook Pic: Ravinder Gusain, GT Network page has been receiving rave reviews and in just two days of going viral it has mustered as many as 6,000 likes. Meet Uttam Poudyal, a student of Amity School of Communication and the architect of the page Smita Jain, GT Network landed at Amity, its diverse culture amused me. It For me each story is unique and special in was heartening to see how the university was giv- its own way. Some stories are emotional hen Uttam Poudyal descended at Amity ing wings to the dreams of so many young people. and reduce you to tears while others from Nepal with a dream to make it big The warmth exuded by some of the Amitians amuse you. They depict the real emo- Win life, little did he know that his love for moved me and I felt the urge to connect with other tions of real people. However, I was photography and unearthing some beautiful stories like-minded individuals in Amity and then Humans deeply moved by the stories and mes- of Amitians would give birth to one of the most of Amity was born. sages of some students and faculty members. cherished pages on Facebook. They changed my perspective towards life. Backed by a desire to come up with something as Architect of a beautiful dream: Photography isn’t exclusive and beautiful as his inspirator, founder of just about capturing and putting photographs on so- Exclusively yours: I have always wanted to usher Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton made him cial networking site to win applaud and apprecia- in a change in the society and I believe that pho- gave birth to Humans of Amity Page on Facebook tion of people. To me, photography is a serious art tography is the right medium to do so. According - www.facebook.com/humansofamityy. Uttam which has undergone tremendous changes since the to me, photographs send out a powerful message as shares the genesis of the page and its wonderful time of its inception. It is all about weaving a beau- they leave a deep impact on a person’s heart and journey to fame with us. tiful story in the form of compositions. Amity is like mind. I felt the same emotions run through me a second home to many students and I wanted to when I came across the ‘Humans of New York’ Genesis of an idea: Random people and their acts document their uniqueness, incredible feelings and page. It left me completely mesmerised and I of kindness have always inspired me. When I achievement through this page. started toying with the idea of coming up with a similar page. Brandon Stanton, at the onset of his Taking the challenges head on: It was not an easy page HNY, had planned to gather 10,000 portraits task at all to begin with. Normally, people find it of New Yorkers and plot them on the map of the difficult to open up in the very first meeting. It took city, but when he started conversing with people me a lot of time to make them feel comfortable and and started including their quotes and small stories, share their dreams and passion. However, each his page started getting more popular. The USP of story that I came across was unique in its own way. Humans of Amity is that it brings to light the hidden This also helped me get in touch with so many beauty of Amitians and highlights the hard work of wonderful people. the unsung heroes of Amity. Beauty unmasked: Each story that has featured Road ahead: It is just the beginning. I plan to visit on my page is special and has struck a chord with Amity campuses in Lucknow, Jaipur and Dubai to me. It would be unfair to pin-point any one story. bring out their beautiful stories.G T.
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