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An Elite Cafeteria Or A Canteen For Everyone?

June 30, 2015, 9.15 pm I heaved a sigh of relief as I put down my purse, lunchbox, umbrella and some vegetables I had picked up on the way home from work....

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Why Mahesh Bhatt Worked on Hamari Adhuri Kahani Without Remuneration

“I didn’t take a penny for my work on Hamari Adhuri Kahani!”– Mahesh Bhatt A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as...

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Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  There we...

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Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.” – Kurt Vonnegut It was in ...

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Technology Matters!

Technology has been heralded as the tool that will expedite the entire evolutionary process of human beings. Technology has boomed over the last 40-45 and has taken over multi...

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essays ...

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VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing! As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual. She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and walks ahead of m...

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THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of evolu...

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Of Right Words And Persistent Images

‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any o...

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Piracy And The Right To Entertainment

Walking through a busy Pali market in Bandra, Mumbai, on Saturdays, it’s almost certain to see ladies haggling over the size and shape of fruits and vegetables with thei...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024