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Festivals

Hong Kong Film Festival Celebrates 40th Anniversary

“We are not making a fetish of the past,” says Roger Garcia, executive director of the Hong Kong Intl Film Festival Society, and one of the co-founders of the fest...

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Alternative Entertainment

Why A Cultural Festival In A Chennai Fishing Village Could Be The Start Of A Revolutionary Movement

Artistic and social barriers came crashing down as Bharatanatyam shared the stage with paraiaatam, a dance and percussion genre associated with funerals. On a warm afternoon, ...

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Bollywood

Women’s Day 2016: 8 Bollywood Songs Dedicated To Women’s Empowerment

Every year March 8 is observed as International Women’s Day. The whole world takes this to celebrate and appreciate the contribution of women towards the society. This d...

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Hollywood

Private Collection Of Joan Rivers To Be Auctioned For Charity

Christie’s is proud to announce an exquisite assortment of personal pieces from Joan Rivers'remarkable Manhattan Penthouse will be auctioned, with a portion of the proce...

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TV

True Review Television - It’s An Original

There’s this new show at 8 pm on &TV which has a distinctive look and treatment. Two distinguished singers, also siblings – Kalyani Gaikwad and Ketki Gaikwad -...

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Trending

Dubai Provides An Ideal Platform For Young Talent - Dr Shravan Kumar

Dubai is a melting pot of cultures and we thought we could provide an ideal platform for young talent to showcase their creativity and learn first-hand about different aspects...

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Gender

India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination

New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact unless deeply entrench...

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Health

Empty Promises And Dead Children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celebrit...

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Human Rights

Policy Shame: Sick, Rare And Ignored

Rare diseases are a diverse set of over 7,000 different conditions that afflict an estimated 1 in 20 Indians and 350 million people worldwide. Put simply, it means that every ...

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Sustainable Development

For Teens In Crisis The Next Text Could Be A Lifesaver

The message to the Crisis Text Line was answered by Aaron Amrich, a volunteer crisis counselor based in California. It was sent by a 19-year-old woman who wrote that she was f...

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TRENDING: A YEAR THAT CHOSE MEANING OVER NOISE

2025 was a year when activism, cinema and conversations around music quietly—but d...

December 25 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: NOT A MAN’S WORLD ANYMORE

Huma Qureshi, who believes that Mumbai’s show business isn’t a man’s e...

December 23 2025

GENDER: GENDER | AUTONOMY | 2025 IN REFLECTION

From homes and heartbreaks to cinema, solitude, queer identity and evolving desire, The ...

December 22 2025