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Thought Factory

Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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Environment

United Nations Asks For Help For Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia

This year's El Ni?o weather system has hit hard in East Africa, causing the severe drought in Ethiopia and flooding in Somalia. The current drought comes more than two deca...

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Trending

How India Is Shaping Facebook’s Strategy

Out of around 1.5 billion people who use Facebook every month, 138 million are from India. No wonder Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, chose New Delhi for ...

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Festivals

Catching The Sun' Opens Transitions Film Festival

US filmmaker Shalini Kantayya will open the 5th annual Transitions Film Festival with the Australian Premiere of her feature documentary Catching the Sun. Shalini Kantayya ...

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Thought Factory

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

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Sustainable Development

How Video Technology Is Bringing Innovations For India’s Farmers

In a video available on Youtube, Daulat Ram Kuswaha, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh, sheds light on the plantation of brinjal ? starting from soil preparation to seed plantin...

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Sustainable Development

A Scorecard For Companies With A Conscience

Eleven years ago, the Vermont-based ice cream-maker Ben and Jerry?s found itself in a position other companies might have found enviable. Several firms were bidding to buy ...

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Sustainable Development

From Droughts TO Disease, 2015 Highlighted Our Food System's Shortcomings

2015 was a bit of a news roller-coaster when it came to the things we eat. We?ve made some progress over the year in some areas but struggled to cope in others as we faced ...

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Environment

Your Birth Control Pills And Hamburgers Might Be Making These Fish Intersex

A strange thing is happening to male smallmouth and largemouth bass swimming in waterways in parts of the Northeast: They are increasingly showing up with characteristics o...

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