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Rupi Kaur: I Was Sick Of Being Silent All The Time

Poet Rupi Kaur used Instagram to build a captive audience for her poetry about survival, womanhood, abuse, love and loss - with 1.3 million followers and counting. She expl...

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Health

Mental Health: Huge Gap Between Health & Provision

The research, by the Mental Health Rights Campaign, found that general practice is falling short of the standards of care to which it aspires. The group comprises people af...

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Human Rights

What's Keeping Indian Women From Working

India has one of the largest populations of working people in the world, but a recent report has found that fewer women are now entering the workforce. Today, just one in f...

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Sustainable Development

The Urban Farmers Battling Bangalore's Concrete Jungle

In Ramagondanahalli village, Muniraju Hanumanthappa bends over his clay-coloured soil surrounded by bright green spinach leaves. He quickly prunes the plants, dwarfed by th...

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Human Rights

The Sex Slaves Of Al-Shabab

When Salama Ali started investigating the disappearance of two younger brothers last year she made an awful discovery - not only were radicalised young Kenyan men leaving t...

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Environment

Plants Can See, Hear And Smell - & Respond

Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals". This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences...

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Sustainable Development

Seeing The Light: How India Is Embracing Solar Power

India unveiled the world's biggest solar farm earlier this year and has quadrupled its solar capacity in the last three years, bringing electricity to millions of off-grid ...

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Alternative Entertainment

TV Show Triggers Chinese Virginity Debate

"He asked me whether I am a virgin," says Qiu Yingying, bursting into tears.
She has just found out her relationship with boyfriend Ying Qin is over, after he found ou...

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Festivals

Germany's Waken Rock Festival Gets A Beer Pipeline

An underground beer pipeline is being laid for the Wacken Open Air (WOA) hard rock festival, which kicks off in northern Germany in August. It is part of a new 7km (four-mi...

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Human Rights

Why Are Millions Of Indian Women Dropping Out Of Work?

The numbers are stark - for the first time in India's recent history, not only was there a decline in the female labour participation rate, but also a shrinking of the tota...

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