a gnawing sense of unease and dread. This was the fate of at least twelve million souls, northerners and southerners alike. When they fell by the wayside on the march to the coast, they were left to die and rot where they lay. The ones branded incorrigible resistors at the slave “factories” of the coast were starved to death and then, so that their end might serve as an example to the others, fed to the sharks.

photo: Chamber into which resistant slaves were thrown without food or water until death claimed them, El Mina, Ghana

The sick and resistant were thrown from the decks of the slave ships, their bleached bones on the bottom of the Atlantic marking the pathway of “the middle passage.” The fate of those whoother-sports

Updated: Oct 23, 2016 08:41 IST

Indian kabaddi team head coach Balwan Singh on Saturday dedicated his team’s World Cup win to the Indian Army soldiers who were martyred in the last month’s terrorist attack in Uri town of Jammu and Kashmir.

India produced a terrific second half performance to overturn a first half deficit and defeat a spirited Iran 38-29 to win their third consecutive World Cup title at the TransStadia Arena here.

“We dedicate this win to our brave soldiers who laid down their lives in the terrorist attack in Uri,” Balwan told reporters after the final.

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We salute them. We had planned before the match that we will give something to the nation. We wanted to