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Boys And Girls Are Born Equal: The Power Of Challenging Gender Norms Early In Life

Diya (not her real name), a young girl in Jharkhand, India, regularly
experiences violence at the hands of her father. The injuries she
sustains from her father&r...

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Retroscope

Suchitra Sen - Revisiting Icons

Standing at the far end of the room she resembled a house wife in a simple cotton saree. A few gold bangles twinkled musically round her wrist. That plump figure was out of...

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Gender

Why Global Standards On Sexual Violence Will Get More Women Into Work

It has been said that the glass ceiling is not glass, it is a very thick layer of men. On a basic level, we all know that means women are drastically underrepresented in th...

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Gender

Challenging Cultural Norms Is The First Step Towards Gender Parity In India

Hailing from India and currently attending a nine month program in the US, I am struck by the differences and similarities between the women in the two countries and what t...

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Thought Factory

Mirrors: Capturing And Recording The Collective Consciousness Through Media

In the recent wake of the Yakub Memon case, opinions have been polarized creating a rift, a schism of thought and identity has manifested in the nation’s collective c...

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Gender

These Empowering Ads Were Named The Best Of #femvertising.

Brands using advertising as a way to challenge gender norms and empower women may not be new, but an award celebrating that work is. SheKnows Media, a women’s lifesty...

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Bollywood

The All-Empowered Bollywood Woman.

The last decade in Bollywood has seen a surge in female-oriented films and characters that show women in different lights and moods. What defines a great heroine? She doesn...

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Sustainable Development

India: Food Safety Is A Must For Sustainable Development

Food safety is a theme having high priority and relevance among governments, civil society, the private sector and intergovernmental agencies across the globe. Changing con...

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Health

Government Relaxes Norms; Cancer Drug Prices Goes Up

The government has allowed pharmaceutical companies to hike rates of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer by 3.84 ...

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Thought Factory

Traditions, Society And Healthcare- Taking A Look At Community Health Issues

It was a cool afternoon in the winter of 1990. We were walking toward a remote village on a dirt road through a forest. It was a voyage of delightful discovery of flora...

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