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Sustainable Development

This Young Architect Just Created Sustainable Furniture For Rural Kids

Say hello to the ‘transformer of furniture’ created by an young architect determined to transform the quality of life in rural India. Nishan Nazer, who received...

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Gender

Behind The Suicide Of An IIT Scholar In Delhi, A Struggle Between New Ambitions And Old Restraints

Her Facebook photos reveal a young woman who liked to travel, dress up, pose and smile. You see her patting her hair and sticking a hip out like the Marilyn Monroe wax stat...

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Gender

Helen Mirren On Why She Resisted Calling Herself A Feminist At First

Though Helen Mirren emphatically calls herself a feminist now, she admits she's resisted the term in the past. Making the commencement speech at Tulane University in New Or...

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Sustainable Development

500,000 Pieces Of Space Junk Are Orbiting The Earth.

Humans have a real knack for leaving their mark wherever they go. Thanks to the curiosity of the human mind and our grand ambitions, this trait is no longer just relegated ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Why I Wrote A Play About William Wordsworth

I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It opens at The Theatre by the Lake, in Kesw...

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Health

Impact Of Budget 2017 On Healthcare Sector: High On Ambition, Low On Vision

Much has been written and spoken about India’s healthcare system, its creaking facilities, its shortage of doctors, its lack of insurance coverage and the rising burd...

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Environment

Brazil’s Sweet River Still Runs Orange Seven Months After A Massive Mining Spill

The millions of liters of waste — a volume roughly equal to the capacity of the Hoover Dam — that gushed out of the Fundão mining dam on November 5 last ...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

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Bollywood

Rajeev Khandelwal, Neha Sharma Support Youth Social Initiative

Actors Rajeev Khandelwal and Neha Sharma lent their support to the social initiative Young Bhartiya Foundation, which was launched on Saturday. "I don't think we ever thoug...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Honesty Or Racism?

It’s a hot topic right now—millions of refugees from Islamic countries flocking to Europe and tilting the population balance. Already, prophets of doom are pred...

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