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Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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Gender

It Is Sita’s Story, Not Rama’s That Is Told By Women In Karnataka’s Villages.

Dressed in a deep green sari bordered by red and gold, with the seragu (pallu) tucked in at the waist so she could sit comfortably and move unhindered, Sanntimmi sat alone ...

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Festivals

Kannada Feature ‘Thithi’ Wins Two Awards At Locarno Film Festival

RaamReddy’s debut Thithi has won two awards at the Locarno International Film Festival. The Kannada movie, which was competing in the section titled Concorso Cineasti...

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Gender

The little Girls Of Dakshina Kannada Villages Who Are Not Allowed To Dance In The Name Of Islam.

In the deafening noise around the ‘big things that matter’, little yet important aspects of social life go unnoticed and unchecked. Little things like dancing c...

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Thought Factory

THE ROMANCE OF KITES

In mid January, the skies over Gujarat and Maharashtra are gaily speckled with kites, diving, soaring and getting at each other. This day marks the solar ingress into Capri...

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Health

Non-prevalent' 10 states see rise in HIV patients, record 57% cases

The number of HIV patients has registered an increase in states where it was earlier being considered to be non-prevalent with 10 such states together accounting for 57 % o...

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Health

Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves

India’s more developed States, especially its southern States, have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, but have a patchy record on immunis...

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Environment

Climate change could see rise of violent conflict in India, warns new report

A new report from the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University warns that India is vulnerable to ?climate conflict?, due to climate change having an impa...

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Health

Number of new HIV infection has decreased by 57%: Harsh Vardhan

There has been a 57 per cent decrease in the number of new cases of HIV infection in last decade in the country, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said in Lok Sabha today. He a...

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Eye Think

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV's OB vans not landed there...

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