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The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

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Sustainable Development

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sust...

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Thought Factory

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sustainability, l...

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Health

India Has Highest Number Of Smokeless Tobacco Deaths, Finds New Study

India accounts for nearly three- fourths of over a quarter million deaths worldwide caused by smokeless tobacco while millions more have their lives shortened due to its il...

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Festivals

Women Set To Dominate At London Indian Film Festival 2015

From the tale of a persecuted rights activist hounded from her home to Shabnam Sukhdev’s moving study of her father, this year’s programme foregrounds work by a...

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Health

MDG Report: India On Track In Reducing Poverty

‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 p...

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Health

NITI Aayog Pinpoints Glaring Issues In Healthcare Due To Limited Budget Allocation

The NITI Aayog’s (National Institute for Transforming India) health division has observed glaring issues in healthcare with limited budget allocation. Disparity in he...

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Health

Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hos...

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Gender

Girls Rule In An Indian Village

Though small and remote, the village of Mawlynnong, bordering Bangladesh in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, attracts tourists from all over the globe. Most c...

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Environment

Link Between Unseasonal Rains, Disasters & Climate Change: Is India Playing The Ostrich?

Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April, geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the ...

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