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Eye Think

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

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Sustainable Development

CAN MOBILE BANKING REVOLUTIONIZE THE LIVES OF THE POOR?

IN THE VILLAGE OF Sori along the banks of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, fishing has long been the lynchpin of the local economy. Jobs here are largely divided by gender: men...

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Bollywood

Bold messages from Bollywood in an era of intolerance

Until this year, the line of dialogue that for me best encapsulated India’s mix of chaos and tolerance was not from a contemporary Bollywood film but a four-year-old ...

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Thought Factory

THE ROMANCE OF KITES

In mid January, the skies over Gujarat and Maharashtra are gaily speckled with kites, diving, soaring and getting at each other. This day marks the solar ingress into Capri...

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Top 5

Entertainment Education Shows

Entertainment-Education is the process of purposely designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate. This is done to increase audience members??kno...

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Health

Pediatrics study shows vaccine reminders with explanation increased visits

A little health literacy can go a long way, particularly when it is used to add context to a text message vaccine reminder. That?? one of the findings of a new study publis...

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TV

TV Review: Yamraaj's Double Debut

I find it strange that sometimes television channels tend to launch shows which are similar in p...

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Hollywood

FIFA Brings Top Players Together To Fight Ebola

Top international football players are joining forces with world football’s governing body FIFA, the Confederation of African Football and health experts to raise glo...

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Health

mHealth Program to Start Serving Mothers in India’s Largest Slums

Birju was one of about 100 women living in the Mumbai slums who started receiving messages under MAMA’s mMitra program last week. The information conveyed is based on...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan Named UNICEF Ambassador

Film actor, director and producer Aamir Khan has been named Ambassador for UNICEF in South Asia In his new role Mr. Khan will focus on supporting child nutrition to end stu...

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