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Sustainable Development

Domestic Help Starts School For 60 Kids From Slums In Ranchi

Suchita’s mother met with an accident a few months ago, because of which she had to take up odd jobs to support her family. In January this year, she started a makesh...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope : Steaming Fresh

The fourth edition of Writers Bloc, a wonderful initiative to encourage new writing, commenced last week and the city’s theatre scene perked up.
 
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Alternative Entertainment

Playwrights Are Putting America's Financial Inequality On The Stage

THERE is something familiar about the Blakes, the American family at the centre of “The Humans”, a new play by Stephen Karam that is now on Broadway. Anyone who...

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Gender

India's First Transband: Don't Hide Us Away, Don't Keep Us In A Cage

KomalJagtap used to work as a wedding singer in India. For about 5,000 rupees (£52), she would dance and sing when people got married or wanted to celebrate a birth. ...

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Trending

Watching Reality Tv Is Linked To High Rates Of Narcissism

The more you watch the Kardashians, the more likely you are to turn into them, finds a new study published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture. A group of Oh...

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Sustainable Development

Keeping The Water Flowing In Rural Villages

Keeping projects in business for the long term has been a constant theme of the Fixes column, and if sustainability has a poster child, it would be a water pump.   Tra...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope : Springtime For Gujarati Theatre

There is a growing demand for experimental work in Gujarati theatre, particularly if a younger audience is to be tapped, the demographic not attracted by the domestic ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Ranaut Let There Be Art: Petition Seeks Freedom To Sketch India's Monuments

Early last year, a group of around 20 people gathered at the ancient monolithic temples of Mammallapuram just outside Chennai. Armed with drawing pads, pencils and little e...

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Human Rights

Safai Karamcharis To Appeal To PM Modi For Eradication Of Manual Scavenging

Next month, a day before Modi visits the birthplace of BabasahebAmbedkar to mark the latter's 125th birth anniversary, a large group of Dalits and safaikaramcharis seeking ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Google Refuses Demand That It Take Down Gay Music Video

The Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB) has been unsuccessful in getting a music video pulled that shows the plight of many gay people in the country.
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