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From Medea To Posh: All Female Productions Have Caused A Stir

With the all-female staging of 'Medea' which is currently on at the Bristol Old Vic, we take a look at what drives productions to be exclusive to women “You can trace...

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Alternative Entertainment

Is It Wrong To Group Together LGBT Art?

Billed as ‘the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art’, Tate Britain's brand new show, which covers gay art from 1861 to 1967, joins a host of ot...

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Alternative Entertainment

'Augustown', A Novel Of The Sacred & The Profane In Jamaica

The richness and heft that is lost in the making of official accounts of the world is one of Miller’s favorite themes. Another of his poems speculates that a law the ...

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Sustainable Development

Matt Damon: Children Are Drinking Water So Dirty, It Looks Like Chocolate Milk

Jetlagged after a flight from Australia, Matt Damon is wearing a smart dark suit with a crisp white shirt as he sits at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington. He...

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Kaleidoscope

Whirlpool of History

Gurinder Chaddha’s latest film Viceroy’s House was inspired by the charming memoir by Pamela Hicks, daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, covering her ...

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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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Alternative Entertainment

Is It Wrong To Group Together LGBT Art?

Billed as ‘the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art’, Tate Britain's brand new show, which covers gay art from 1861 to 1967, joins a host of ot...

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Human Rights

Tribal Communities Protest Changes In Jharkhand Land Laws

Land right activists claim that recent amendments make it easier for land sharks to grab tribal land.Last year in May, when the Jharkhand government announced to remove han...

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Environment

Watching Birds Near Home Eases Sadness & Worries

Watching birds around your home may help overcome sadness and worry, a new study in UK has found. Researchers from the University of Exeter in UK, the British Trust for Orn...

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Alternative Entertainment

Gender-Bending Shakespeare And Rough Magic In “The Tempest”

Eight times a week, in a rowdy, devastating, gender-bending production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, directed by Phyllida L...

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