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Second Scout Film Festival Hits Stowe This Weekend

Those darned whippersnappers and their smartphones and television screens! Don’t they know that back in the day, we read books for entertainment! We went out and played ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Women Writers Face Major Hurdles, Especially In Best Selling Genres

Sci-fi and mystery authors speak out about inequality in these male-dominated fields.You’ve probably read the stats: books by women are being reviewed more and more by p...

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Bollywood

Shraddha, Alia, Parineeti Stand In To Support Animals

Bollywood's young actresses like Shraddha Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, are known to be animal lovers. While Shraddha owns a pet dog 'Shyloh', Alia pets a cat 'Edward'. The actresses...

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Hollywood

Maggie Q On A Quest To Save Elephants With The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

US Actress and wildlife campaigner Maggie Q (Nikita, Divergent, Designated Survivor) has been in Kenya with leading conservation charity The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DS...

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Why Fashion Needs Cultural Appropriation

Appropriation can be a force for good, creating a cultural exchange and enriching the available vocabulary for creatives of all types. In the age of social media, criticism ca...

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Festivals

NFAI Brings EU Film Festival To Pune

The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) is all set to host the European Union Film Festival 2017 between June 11 and 17. The festival will provide an opportunity to film ent...

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Alternative Entertainment

Indian Soap Tackles Taboos To Become World's Most Watched

Over 400m people watch show, with storyline including acid attacks, domestic violence and abortion of female foetuses An Indian soap opera whose themes include acid attacks, d...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Deepika Padukone – 7 Bollywood Divas Who Are Wonder Women In Their Own Right

They may not have superpowers like Diana Prince, but they do have that inner strength and innate desire to stand apart from the rest, that makes them unique. Here are seven su...

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Hollywood

More Than 100 Authors Sign Greenpeace's Pledge for Free Speech and Forest Protection

More than 100 authors from around the world, including Nobel Prize winner John Maxwell Coetzee (Disgrace); writer and comedian Stephen Fry (More Fool Me); Man Booker Prize win...

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Discovery Impact Film 'Mosquito' To Premiere In Over 220 Countries

Discovery is using its global reach to focus the world’s attention on the single greatest agent of death in modern human history—the mosquito. The global crisis is...

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POLITICS: CONGRESS’S PLURALISM IS KEY TO VICTORY

Congress’s commitment to pluralism is vital for maintaining the trust of minoritie...

October 10 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE FILMMAKER, THE ETERNAL SEEKER

As it completes a 50-day run, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Srijit Mukherji’s Pa...

October 9 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: LOVE LANGUAGES GUIDE TO MOHABBAT KI DUKAAN

Discover how to express and receive love through the five love languages, nurturing rela...

October 8 2024