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TJ Martell Foundation Announces 5th Annual Women Of Influence Awards

The TJ Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS research has announced its 2017 Women of Influence Awards which will be held Friday, May 12, 2017 at The Plaza Hotel...

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Alternative Entertainment

Watch: This Powerful Rap About The Inhuman Practice Of Manual Scavenging

Sumeet touches upon casteism, elitism and the insensitivity which prevails even among the educated crowd about the issue. Manual scavenging is banned by law in India but it...

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TV

Afternoon Is The New Prime Time

Doordarshan has already been there and done that. In the mid-90s, the mandarins at Mandi House came up with an unprecedented move to create an Afternoon Prime Time, wherein...

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Human Rights

Alcohol Ban Succeeds As Women Warn, 'Behave Or We'll Get Tough'

India — Dozens of women brandishing brooms swooped down on a straw house in this village on a recent Saturday, sending the owner fleeing through a rice field as they ...

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Kaleidoscope

A Forgotten Chapter

The caste system is still a contentious issue in most of India; in Maharashtra the Brahmin-Dalit problems persist, years after the flaring up of the anti-Brahmin movement f...

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“I Would Listen To My Songs And Learn From My Mistakes,” Alka Yagnik

Mumbai 19th April 2017: One of the most illustrious singers of Bollywood, Alka Yagnik entered the auditorium for the 5th Veda session at Whistling Woods International (WWI)...

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Gender

How Queer Muslims Are Navigating Religion & Sexuality

I met Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali in that quintessential San Francisco meeting space — an airy industrial coffee shop — busy, crowded, in fact, for a Sunday morn...

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Health

Beyond Sterilisation: The Need For Sex Education And Contraceptives In India

For decades, India has put controversial sterilisation drives at the heart of its efforts to combat population growth. But last year, the country’s top court ordered ...

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Festivals

Muslim Film Festival Returns For Third Year In Milwaukee

The third annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival begins Monday with another wide-ranging sample of movies made in the Muslim world. The festival, a project of the Milwaukee ...

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Sustainable Development

France Becomes The First Country To Ban Plastic Plates And Cutlery

France has apparently become the first country in the world to ban plastic plates, cups and utensils, passing a law that will go into effect in 2020. Exceptions will be all...

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