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Building a Comprehensive Data to Prevent Violence against Children

National leaders, especially governments, play a crucial role in the data-to-action process. To support national engagement across sectors, Together for Girls is piloting a Da...

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‘Would-be’ Child Brides become Child Warriors to fight their Community

A 14-year-old young girl, Rajni, from Uttar Pradesh was in the middle of her eighth-grade exams when she found out her parents planned to get her married. She had never met th...

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Dr Lakshmi Lingam: A Person with long years of Experience in Public Policy Advocacy Work in Women’s Movements in India

“The mobile phone is a revolutionary artefact of our times: it represents a great potential for reshaping social relations and enhancing personal growth,” says Dr ...

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It Happened One Night

Noir thrillers had their own visual glamour—smoky bars, shadowy streets, men in trench coats and Fedoras, femmes fatale, damsels in distress and an innocent caught in a ...

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Ambubasi Mela: A Festival that Celebrates Fertility and Rejuvenation

Guwahati’s Kamakhya Temple organizes the Ambubasi Mela (also pronounced as Ambubachi Mela) which is a four-day annual fair. Legend has it that an angered goddess Shakti ...

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The Lives of People who stood up for the #MeToo Movement

The Harvey Weinstein scandal was probably the biggest news of 2017. We are aware of what happened to the accused men involved in the scandal. But the courageous people whose h...

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Lights Still On: Portrait of a 70-year-old Photo Studio where once Bollywood’s Legendary Stars Shone Bright

 The incalculable number of photographs – running into crores – of vintage Hindi cinema’s charismatic actors and film classics have vanished into thin a...

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The King: An Exceptional Documentary on Elvis Presley and the American Dream

Eugene Jarecki doesn’t do small stories. The documentary director calls himself “a big-game hunter”, confidently tackling the sort of big abstract concepts a...

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Adidas and Parsley Run for the Oceans by turning Ocean Plastic into Shoes

Let's dig into some figures. Studies tell us that there’s roughly 80,000 tons of plastic polluting the Pacific Ocean. That’s an area roughly three times the size o...

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Single Women form the Largest of Women Workforce

I read in an article on The Hindu that despite high growth rate during the economic reform period, five economists of the World Bank have found that women’s ability to a...

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GENDER: CHAI AND LOVE MEET ON STAGE

In this intimate column, Vinta Nanda writes about The Chai Queens, its emotional homecom...

January 17 2026

TRENDING: THE QUIET POWER OF COSTUMES

Costume designer Pia Benegal reflects on why her craft remains invisible, how clothes sh...

January 16 2026

RETROSCOPE: REMEMBERING RAY’S IMMORTAL…APU!

On the late, legendary Soumitra Chatterjee’s 91st birthday on January 19th Monojit...

January 15 2026