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The Ganpati Story

How did Lord Ganesha get his elephant head? The myth is part of Indian folk lore—Shiva came home one day and a little boy prevented him from entering the house becaus...

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The Allure Of Ads

Commercials that mirror society and its idiosyncrasies are part of the prime time watch Stephen Leacock once famously defined advertising as the science of arresting the hu...

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Apocalyptic Fiction And The Doomsday Clock

THE apocalypse is fertile ground for writers. From the popular fiction of John Wyndham and Stephen King to the work of Pulitzer- and Booker-prize winners like Cormac McCart...

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What Makes "Sense8" The Best LGBT TV Show

Two years ago, I watched the first episode of Sense8. That was the first time I ever saw a love that looks like mine onscreen. One of the eight psychically-linked strangers...

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'The Scratch & Smell Book Of Weed' Is More Serious Than You Think

It's not just about novelty, it's about knowledge.
It sounds like something a couple of stoners would dream up in a late-night toke fest, but The Scratch & Sniff B...

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Human Rights Lawyer Ujwala Kadrekar To Share Insights With Scriptwriters On Domestic Violence And Abuse

Human Rights Lawyer Ujwala Kadrekar will addressing media and entertainment leaders, writers, producers, journalists and authors at The Third Eye program headquarters, for ...

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Facebook To Launch Premium TV Shows From June 2017

We all know how serious Facebook is when it comes to videos. From a mobile-first company, Facebook has now become a video-first company, and recently, Mark Zuckerberg had s...

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Human Rights

Resurgence Of Religion: Not Despite Modernisation But Because Of It

In his 1967 book, The Sacred Canopy, sociologist Peter Berger, famously argued that religion would decline and become redundant as the world modernised. Three decades later...

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Seeing A Syrian Refugee's Journey Through A Child's Eye

Norwegian filmmaker Egil Håskjold Larsen on ’69 Minutes Of 86 Days’, a refugee documentary focussed on humanity, not horror By the time Norwegian film-mak...

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Most Surreal Movie Moment Of The Year: Lady Gaga Interviews Julian Assange

It is, without question, one of the most bizarre—and side-splittingly funny—movie scenes you’ll see all year. Midway through Laura Poitras’ document...

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