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Alternative Entertainment

Why Every Single Kid In This Tiny Village In Punjab Knows Classical Music

In the quiet village of Bhaini Sahib in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, it is not uncommon to hear the tunes of classical music emanating from every home. This...

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Bollywood

It’s A Great Time To Be A Woman In B-Town: Sonakshi Sinha

With her choice of progressive roles — be it in the recent Akira, a RAW agent in Force 2 or the journalist she plays in Noor, Sonakshi Sinha has been impressing audience...

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Hollywood

Jane Fonda To Be Honored At Equality Now Gala

Equality Now, the international human rights organization dedicated to women’s and girls’ rights, is pleased to announce that it will honor four powerhouses for ch...

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Trending

85-Year-Old Man Breaks Marathon Record

Ed Whitlock, 85, is a new world record holder after the English-born Canadian finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in under four hours last Sunday. He ran the fastest in t...

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Gender

What Women Do When They Can't Afford An Abortion

When Ariana Menefee found out that she was pregnant seven years ago, she knew immediately that she needed an abortion. "My pregnancy was a surprise. I had no intention of havi...

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Health

India Needs To Talk About Mental Illness

At least 13.7 per cent of India’s general population has various mental disorders; 10.6 per cent of them require immediate interventions.While nearly 10 per cent of the ...

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Human Rights

Activists Seek Protocol For Disabled At Airports

New Delhi: The alleged humiliation meted out to Paralympian Aditya Mehta, who was recently forced to take off his prosthetic limb and then strip down for a security ...

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Sustainable Development

Haptic Feedback Prototype Lets You Grasp Objects In VR

Some folks already find virtual reality devices prohibitively expensive, but the haptic feedback devices that attempt to pull the sensation of touch into the normally visually...

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Environment

Can Snitching On Polluters Save Delhi’s Air?

A number of solutions have been proposed to combat Delhi’s runaway pollution problem, ranging from incentivizing solar to asking people to just not go to ...

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Festivals

Women Directors Are Everywhere, But Film Festivals Are Still Catching Up — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by IndieWire, the Film So...

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TRENDING: IS HE A LEADER OR A PROPAGANDIST?

Was it the leader of a democratic nation or a propagandist spewing divisive rhetoric in ...

April 28 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: LOOKING FOR THE MAHANAYAK

Srijit Mukherji’s Oti Uttam is a film hard to dislike. And no, it’s not just...

April 27 2024

POLITICS: PEOPLE WILL DEFEAT AMIT SHAH

Vinta Nanda spent two days with Sonal Patel and returns to tell us that the Congress Par...

April 26 2024