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Festivals

These Film Festivals Are Unconventional In The True Sense

We all know about the MAMI, the Cannes, the BAFTA and the Oscars… During these events, our newspapers and television screens get inundated with images and videos from t...

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Alternative Entertainment

TV Show Triggers Chinese Virginity Debate

"He asked me whether I am a virgin," says Qiu Yingying, bursting into tears.She has just found out her relationship with boyfriend Ying Qin is over, after he found out she had...

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Bollywood

Sunny Leone To Raise Awareness About HIV/ AIDS By Supporting This Campaign

Sunny Leone joins hands with AIDS Healthcare Foundation to raise awareness about the deadly disease. Sunny Leone is one of the most popular and stylish celebs in B – Tow...

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Hollywood

Hollywood Still Shutting Out Female Directors, Nicole Kidman Tells Cannes

The most visible actress at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival made an impassioned pitch Wednesday as she criticized the slow pace of change in male-dominated Hollywood. Nicole Kid...

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Trending

Study: Women Underrepresented In Indie Films, Documentaries

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, movies have largely lacked a woman’s perspective. Auteurs like Dorothy Arzner were rare in the studio system, and 60 years later, thin...

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Gender

Should Gender Dysphoria Be A Legally Protected Disability

I know firsthand what it's like to struggle with gender dysphoria at work, and how aggravating it can be. When I was a closeted transgender woman, sometimes I'd only make it p...

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Health

Maternal Healthcare Expenses Push 46.6% Mothers In India Into Poverty: study

Maternal healthcare expenses push 46.6% mothers in India into poverty – with the illiterate being especially susceptible – according to this December 2016 study by...

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Human Rights

A Photographer Captures LGBTQ Africans Around The World

For the past three and a half years, queer Nigerian-American photographer Mikael Owunna has traveled around North America documenting communities of LGBTQ African immigrants. ...

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Sustainable Development

A New Foundation Is Teaching The Community Through An Unlikely Game

Young men in Harlem are learning math and science though an unlikely ally: golf. Just off 40 West and 117th Street in Harlem, New York, rests the Bridge Golf Foundation, a lea...

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Environment

Scientists: Seals Are Deafened In Noisy Shipping Lanes

TATTIUrbanisation of marine environment impacts on seal hearing and is comparable to noise pollution of inner cities Seals are being temporarily deafened by underwater noise i...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Veenapani Chawla’s chance encounter with Naseeruddin Shah culminated in the birth ...

January 13 2026

THOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING

For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen&m...

January 12 2026

THOUGHT FACTORY: PREGNANT RECALLS!

Writer Aparajita Krishna weaves memory, cinema, politics, motherhood and moral courage i...

January 11 2026