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Human Rights

“Human Rights Activists Working To Achieve Gandhi’s Objective”

Human rights activists were working in post-independent India towards achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of freedom from economic and social slavery, said P.V. Rajagop...

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Sustainable Development

Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"

Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the newly ...

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Environment

A Long Walk For Water

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and Agra...

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Festivals

Meg Ryan, Robert Mark Kamen To Be Honored At Sonoma Film Festival

Meg Ryan will be honored with the Sonoma Salute Award at the 19th Sonoma Film Festival, a five-day program dedicated to the best in film, food, wine and spirits.During a tribu...

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Alternative Entertainment

Farhan Firebird: How Class Politics Neglects White Working Class Girls

There's a risk that staging a play about the Rochdale child sex rings could descend into voyeuristic rehashing of real-life horrors. Luckily, Phil Davies has, in his debut pla...

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Bollywood

Farhan Akhtar To Release Special Song On Women's Day?

Bollywood's 'Mr. All Rounder' aka FarhanAkhtar is always game for something or the other, when it's about creativity and excellence. No wonder then, he has become everyone's '...

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Hollywood

Stars Help Save The Children Celebrate A Night Of Motown

Last week, Save the Children held A Night of Motown at the Roundhouse in London. The event, sponsored by RB, was attended by over 350 guests including Helena Bonham Carter, Mo...

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Women’s Day Special: TV Actresses Talk About Their Proud Moments As Women

On the eve of Women's Day, popular television actresses including Rashami Desai, TinaaDattaa, VahbbizDorabjee talk about their proud moments as women. Rashami Desai – Pe...

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Gender

Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at Ho...

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Health

How Digital Tech Is Improving Women's Health and Wellbeing in India

This Tuesday, March 8, communities across the world will celebrate International Women's Day, a campaign highlighting the social, economic, cultural and political achievements...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE RIVER OF LIFE

OP Srivastava takes us on the banks of Gautam Ghose's film. Paar, crossing the river of ...

April 24 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: ANURAG ANAND - THE STORYTELLER ARTIST

‘I am a storyteller with art and writing as my mediums,’ says Anurag Anand, ...

April 23 2024

BOLLYWOOD: CHORI MERA KAAM OR CHOR-EO-GRAPHY

Monojit Lahiri investigates Bollywood’s skilled art of plagiarism down the decades...

April 22 2024