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Human Rights

Remembering Savitribai Phule, Who Fought For Women’s Rights In 19th Century India

Today is the 186th birth anniversary of Savitribai Jyotirao Phule, considered to be one of India’s renowned social reformers and educationists. Phule, who was born in...

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Gender

A Guide to the Social Factors That Put Transgender Lives at Risk

News coverage of transgender issues frequently includes devastating stories of violence and loss. Every year, we read about trans women who are brutally murdered, or trans ...

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Environment

Cheetah 'More Vulnerable To Extinction Than Previously Thought'

Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetah – the world’s fastest land animal– becoming extinct, experts have warned. Scientists estimate that only 7,100 ...

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This Delhi Youth Went For An Internship To A Rajasthan Village. Today, He Runs A School There.

For someone born and brought up in the city, living in a village can be an eye-opener in many ways. While some find village life mundane, there are others who fall in love ...

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Kaleidoscope

All It Takes Is Courage

Sushmita Mukherjee’s new one-woman show, Naribai, has her play a face-off between two been interesting women of different social strata. Sunaina is an upper clas...

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Alternative Entertainment

Fishing For Stories Of The Earth

Four years ago, Scottish geologist Iain Stewart made his first ever visit to Kerala along with a BBC crew in search of karimeen, the backwater fish that’s also a favo...

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Bollywood

Mallika Sherawat: Important To Break Silence About Child Prostitution

Actress Mallika Sherawat says it is important to break the silence in many countries about child prostitution and the need to prosecute the offenders. The 40-year-old actre...

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Human Rights

This Human Rights Activist Is Disrupting India’s Sexual Health Education With A Unique Online Platform

Where do you go for advice on matters that are considered taboo? Topics such as love, sex, and relationships are best kept away from public forums, unless you want a thousa...

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Human Rights

Wheel Of Fortune

I was at a conference last Sunday when a gracefully dressed South Indian woman with a boy cut was wheeled up to me.
Preethi Srinivasan, I was to learn during the conve...

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Sustainable Development

Life On The Loom

The cacophonic Old Natham Road gradually gives way to the desolate streets of Valluvar Colony, lined with rows of tiled-roof houses. It’s noon and the entire hamlet i...

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