Got hand on the new Manorama Yearbook.Articles are related to current affairs but is not up to the mark. Doesn't invoke a desire to read it in a full stretch.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Current affairs section was not so bad. Top scams were correctly aligned. Controversies also got there relevant news value. Homage was give to Rajesh Khanna,Vilasrao Deshmukh, Varghese Kurian appropriately.
COVER STORY
Cover Story about Corruption was of news value and was also able to create interest in readers by its contents and also by referring relevant figures, statistics, tables etc in its due course.
All the major International news were delt in current affairs while major National & International Events were drawn in the Calender order under Events.
SCIENCE WORLD
Discovery & naming of 5 new elements, discovery that plants communicate with each other, Invention of self balancing unicycle, water chargable cell phones, water proof phones, nano ear that can even hear bacteria, twelve atom memory bit etc were some of the interesting news seen in this section.
Speed of Neutrinos, Higgs-boson's existence, understanding more about Genome and GM crops etc were dealt here.
GEOGRAPHY & SPACE
Sorry to say this section,which I expected to interest me the most failed to do that cause of its repeatation tendency and inclusion of new topics which are too dry.
ENVIRONMENT
This section also had the same problems of the above section, though they managed to include more currently relevant topics here.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
This section was able to cover up all the short comes of previous sections.Not only did it have interesting topics also did it came in amore handy and readable style. Sixth Human taste, Cancer were really informative.Even the old topic of discussion Cyborg were dusted out in an interesting manner.
(to be continued......)
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