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Sustainable Development

Partners In Transforming India's Urban Transportation

India is experiencing an unprecedented transition from rural to urban living. Its urban population increased from 222 million in 1990, to 410 million in 2014 and is forecas...

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Environment

Glaciers Are Melting So Much They Are Changing Shape Of Earth's Crust

Nasa scientists discover existence of glacial waves, which move huge amounts of ice and water into the sea during periods of intense melting, by studying changes to the lan...

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Alternative Entertainment

This Is Why Israeli Fashion Is So Political

As civil war gripped Ethiopia, an entire community of Ethiopian Jews was airlifted out of the country by the Israeli government in an audacious 1984 covert operation to res...

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Festivals

Identity Keepers

Sridhar Rangayan, festival director and founder of Kashish, on the recent edition of the queer film festival, being inclusive, and opening up discussions on sexuality When ...

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Bollywood

Jacqueline Bats For Ban On Animal Testing Of Cosmetics

Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez loves animals so much so that the actor is urging people to sign a petition for a global ban on animal testing of cosmetics and ingredi...

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Hollywood

50 Years After 'Loving', Hollywood Still Struggles With Interracial Romance

Fifty years ago, on June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. Just two weeks earlier, shooting had been comple...

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Trending

She Photographed Jimi Hendrix Without Knowing His Name

In 1967, Elaine Mayes was living in a Haight-Ashbury commune and piecing together work as a photojournalist. With national media swarming the neighborhood, she saw firsthan...

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Gender

The Bastion Of Women Nawabs

As the Mughal Empire started disintegrating after the death of Aurangzeb, many local chiefs and governors declared independence. Many others, finding the empire weakened, s...

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Health

How I Conquered My Fear & Fell In Love With A HIV+ Man

I met Oliver a week after my 19th birthday, at a mixer thrown by a few friends. I still remember what he wore—a red flannel shirt with fitted jeans, classic Converse ...

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Human Rights

In Northeast India, The Movement For LGBT Rights Is Gaining Visibility

He was only 18. It was the first time he had joined a protest rally against the Supreme Court of India's ruling on homosexuality. ‘’It was the first ever public...

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