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New Court Ruling Is Massive Shift For Gender Rights In India

Women can legally head households, a court in India ruled this week in a monumental verdict for women’s rights. The decision will allow the eldest female in a family ...

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Gender

Woman Can Be ‘Karta' Of A Family: Delhi High Court Gives Landmark Judgement

Every time someone mentions 'karta' in the context of an Indian family, you immediately think of a male member. That just changed in a landmark ruling by the Delhi High cou...

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Bollywood

Deepika Padukone As Bhansali’s Mastani Is A True Role Model For Gender Equality

Perhaps one of the most glaring, disturbing symbols of the regressive patriarchy inherent in our traditions is our treatment of the Indian widow. She has been forced to end...

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Karnataka Hamlet Is India?s 1st Smokeless Village

Until last month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40 years now. Not any more. Her kitchen is now fit...

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Retroscope

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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Om Puri’s ‘Project Marathwada’ Launches Its First Look

~ Seen in the teaser Govind Namdeo, Dilip Tahil, Seema Biswas, Kunal Seth, Rahul Patel, Farah Kader and Katerina~
~ The teaser is hard-hitt...

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Thought Factory

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Thousands Of Animals Have Been Saved In Nepal As Mass Slaughter Is Cancelled

A festival in Nepal celebrating the world’s largest animal sacrifice was canceled on Tuesday in a landmark victory for activists. The Gadhimai Temple Trust said the e...

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Bollywood

Sonakshi Sinha Stands Against A Cruel Ritual In Tamil Nadu.

Sonakshi Sinha has always been vocal about social issues and now the actress has stood for animals who become victims of a cruel practice. Tamil Nadu is infamous for a ritu...

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David Letterman’s Dry-Eyed Farewell

The Letterman era came to an end with all the fanfare you would expect, but none of the emotion. “Save a little for my funeral, OK?” Thus David Letterman, durin...

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