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Human Rights

Why A Trans-Woman In Kolkata Insisted On Having A Legal Wedding With Pomp And Circumstance

The wedding reception on February 18, at Kolkata’s Vespa Hotel, was a typical Bengali affair. A hundred guests, comprising close friends and relatives, were invited. ...

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Alternative Entertainment

How Stories Configure Human Nature

It is in our nature to need stories. We arrive “biologically prepared” for them. They were evolutionarily crucial. We feel and think in story-logic (story-causa...

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Health

Affordable Healthcare Conclave – A Call For Startups To Solve India’s Really Hard Problems. Are You Ready?

India has a wide range of seemingly insurmountable obstacles in providing affordable healthcare to its vast population, but some solutions and successes have emerged. Scali...

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Human Rights

CRG: Migrant Influx Has Worsened Child Rights

The situation of children rights in the state is deteriorating thanks to an influx of migrant population from various neighbouring states and the lack of proactive measures...

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Environment

Can We Blame Climate Change For February's Record-Breaking Heat?

February is usually marked by snowflakes, sleigh bells, and warm woolen mittens. But this year’s silver white winter prematurely melted into spring. Check the weather...

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Bollywood

Need To Debunk Stereotypes Around Female Directors: Freida Pinto

India-born internationally-acclaimed actress Freida Pinto, who witnessed stardom with "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008, wants to encourage women-driven projects through her ba...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Turn Human Body Into Bioacoustic Communications Channel

You meet Bob at a party—a friend of a friend. He's way drunk but let's slip that he's a procurement manager at a very large, very flush government contractor. Dude su...

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Hollywood

Russell Simmons Invites New Yorkers Of All Backgrounds To Stand In Solidarity With American Muslims

New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds are being asked to gather on Sunday, February 19th, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm in New York’s Times Square, (at the corner ...

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A small City In Iowa Is Devoting 1,000 Acres Of Land To America's Vanishing Bees

You've probably heard the news that our nation's bees are in trouble. Pollinators have been disappearing for decades, and the population crash could threaten the global foo...

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Gender

On The Road With Bangladesh's Only Female Rickshaw Puller

Bangladesh’s only known woman rickshaw puller, Mosammat Jasmine, may be a feminist icon but to the passengers she cycles around the streets of Chittagong, she is know...

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