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True Review Movie - Kapoor and Sons (Since 1921)

Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Fawad Khan, Sidharth Malhotra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor, Alia Bhatt Direction: Shakun Batra Produced: Hiroo Yash Johar, Yas Rajbanshi, Apoorva Meh...

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TV

True Review Television - Prime Time Has Two Fresh Looks

Last week’s most memorable watch was on &TV’s Prime Time newbie Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai. A lone dancer in a darkened theatre is in the throes of a sequence,...

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Trending

Smartphones Not Smart Enough To Handle Crisis?

Most of the top smartphone apps, including Siri on Apple phones and Cortana on Windows phones, cannot help you if you raise an alert to them about mental health, interpersonal...

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Gender

How Women Became 'Seen Not Heard' In Fairy Tales

Maybe she had children, and wanted to warn them about the wayward world beyond adolescence.Maybe her mother, or her mother's mother, told her the story, and as a child she del...

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Health

10 Women Who Are Disrupting Global Health And Tech

There’s something about the rising humidity, the pre-dawn birdsong, the flowers we forgot we planted. It’s a disruptive, yet hopeful feeling—which makes it t...

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Human Rights

Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, and u...

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Sustainable Development

Improving The Quality Of Skills Training: What The Adolescent Girls Initiative Pilots Can Teach Us

The Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) through its eight pilots taught us a great deal about how to make skills training more female-friendly and support young women's transiti...

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Environment

One Of The Biggest Myths About Beating Climate Change Has Just Been Busted

For the second straight year, the global economy has grown without a corresponding rise in emissions tied to climate change, reversing an almost two-century-old trend and givi...

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Festivals

Picture This . . . Film Festival Offers Fresh, International Look At Those With Disabilities

Yes, it is an international disability film festival — the first one in Canada — but the films presented are not grim. Or depressing. Or preachy.“We’ve...

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Alternative Entertainment

Chennai And All That Jazz

In the midst of a stage crammed with the usual musical paraphernalia, singers and instruments, aspiring musician and student ManickVennimalai is something of a lone wolf. The ...

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TRENDING: THE GREAT REDEVELOPMENT BONANZA & FASCISM

Mumbai’s redevelopment and how urban transformation drives class divides, social s...

November 15 2024

POLITICS: MAHARASHTRA’S DEMOCRACY AT CROSSROADS

As Maharashtra approaches crucial elections, the current government’s tactics rais...

November 14 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: PATRIARCHY DENIAL AND BLIND SPOTS

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s patriarchy denial stresses the need for a sh...

November 13 2024