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Monica Sarkar
Senior Producer, CNN Digital
Monica Sarkar is a senior digital producer at CNN International in London. Got a story? Email monica.sarkar@cnn.com.
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SACRAMENTO, CA - SEPTEMBER 26: Sim Bhullar #32 of the Sacramento Kings poses for a photo on media day September 26, 2014 at the Kings practice facility in Sacramento, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2014 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)

The NBA player who made history in 16 seconds

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: Sakina Jaffrey poses on the red carpet during the Netflix's "House Of Cards" Washington DC Screening at NEWSEUM on January 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor/Getty Images)

'House of Cards' actress Sakina Jaffrey: 'I had to bring it'

Harmeet Singh of Molde FK during the UEFA Europa League match between Fenerbahce SK v Molde FK on September 17, 2015 at the Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.(Photo by VI Images via Getty Images)

Harmeet Singh, the 'Norwegian Iniesta' who wants to score for India

Shani Dhanda

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Nitin Sawhney performing live at Shepherds Bush Empire in London. 26th February 2009. Job: 62592 Ref: HDR - (Photo by Howard Denner/Photoshot/Getty Images)

Producer Nitin Sawhney uses music to break down barriers

Senator the Hon Lisa Singh, Senator for Tasmania. 23 October 2017. 170529. Photograph by Penny Bradfield AUSPIC/DPS

Australia's trailblazing politician

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 04: Alok Vaid-Menon attends Mila Jam release of her new single "Bruised" on October 4, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)

Life as a transgender person of color: 'I erased a part of me'

One of the first Jashanmal stores in the UAE.

The secret to 100 years of trading success in the Gulf

People take part in a protest against the recent rape cases, assembling on April 15, 2018 in New Delhi, India.

India's problem with rape: Do women feel safe?

Hundreds of Muslim refugees crowd atop a train leaving New Delhi for Pakistan in this September 1947 file photo. India will celebrate its 50th anniversary of Independence from Britian on Friday Aug. 15, 1997. The day also marks the division of the British empire into officially Muslim Pakistan and largely Hindu India. That division was accompanied by bloody religious riots in 1947, the memories of which haunt freedom celebrations. (AP Photo)

70 years on: The incredible story of India and Pakistan

9th October 1947: Hindu and Sikh women and children arriving at Bombay on the British-India liner dOwarkaf after their flight from Pakistan. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Key events in one of history's greatest mass migrations

An Indian Hindu devotee dries saris after bathing in the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganges river during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad on February 8, 2013. The Kumbh Mela in the town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. AFP PHOTO/ ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

Wonder women: South Asia's female freedom fighters

Partition memories: 'My aunt crossed border with baby in arms'

INDIA - JANUARY 01: During an historic conference in New Delhi, Lord MOUNTBATTEN and the main Indian leaders agree upon the partition of India according to a British plan. At the conference, from left to right: Pandit JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, vice-president of the interim government; Lord ISMAY, councilor to Lord MOUNTBATTEN and India's viceroy; Lord MOUNTBATTEN, and Ali JINNAH, president of the Muslim League for India. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The making of India and Pakistan

Indian brides from impoverished families, dressed in wedding finery, wait for their grooms to arrive during a mass marriage ceremony in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015.

Marital rape: Why is it legal in India?

Indian villagers listen to an unseen speaker during a rally by Congress Party leaders in Amethi on March 12, 2014.

Indian elections: Are women's rights central?

Indian activists shout slogans during a protest for the implementation of harsher punishments and quicker trials for rape cases in New Delhi on February 4,2013.

Men respond to India's 'rape crisis'

Disability in India: The struggles of prejudice

Afghan pop singer Aryana Sayeed performs during a charity concert at the French Culture center (IFA) in Kabul on July 7, 2013.

The Afghan voice that won't be silenced

7th June 1978: Women in short skirts and high heels walking freely down a street in Kabul.

Unveiled: Afghan women past and present

Independent Afghan civil society activist women carry the coffin of Farkhunda, 27, who was lynched by an angry mob in central Kabul on March 22, 2015. Hundreds of people on March 22, attended the burial of an Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran. The body of Farkhunda, 27, who was lynched on March 19 by an angry mob in central Kabul, was carried to the graveyard by women amid crowds of men, an AFP reporter said, a rare act of protest in a male-dominated society. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)

Are women uprising in Afghanistan?

Outsiders welcome? UK migrants share stories

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kinshasa, Albino grand-mother (Marie Margherite Embongo Hoheka & Dorianne) posing against a grey wall with her black grand-daughter, Kinshasa, (MR)

What's the best advice you've been given?

From child trafficking victim to electrician

H&M's latest look: The hijab

Lion's share: Prices on heads of trophy animals

Ban America's pet tigers, activists say

In this photograph taken on December 21, 2014, a Royal Bengal Tiger pauses in a jungle clearing in Kaziranga National Park, some 280kms east of Guwahati.

Can tigers claw their way back from the brink?

A discussion on female genital mutilation (FGM) takes place at Sheikh Nuur primary school in Hargeysa, Somalia, on February 19, 2014.

FGM: Thousands of victims 'residing in UK'

A sample of the emails exchanged between CAGE and Mohammed Emwazi.

'Jihadi John's' emails: What they reveal

Turkish men wearing skirts demonstrate in Istanbul to support women's rights in memory of 20-year-old murdered woman Ozgecan Aslan on February 21, 2015.

Men support women's rights... by wearing skirts

Indian demonstrators hold candles in honour of a physiotherapy student who was gang-raped and murdered at a protest to mark the one year anniversary of her death in New Delhi on December 29, 2013.

India's Daughter: The film banned by India

India's football hopefuls dream of playing abroad

Indian students, their faces painted with the colours of their national flag, pose on the eve of Independence day in Allahabad on August 14, 2013. India celebrates its 66th independence anniversary from British rule on August 15.

7 Indian activists to follow on Twitter

The Himalayan foothills. Not a bad place to sit and perfect your lotus pose.

Ultimate retreat: Yoga, meditation, wildlife

News and buzz

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Eton student Trenton Bricken wrote on Facebook: "He (Putin) was small in person but not in presence."

Putin's private meeting with British schoolboys

Muslim pilgrims perform the final walk around the Kaaba (Tawaf al-Wadaa) at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on November 30, 2009. The annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Mecca wound up without the feared mass outbreak of swine flu, Saudi authorities said, reporting a total of five deaths and 73 proven cases. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)