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Emma Thompson Backs Campaign To Empower Women

Emma Thompson has backed a campaign to support and empower women and girls living in poverty around the world.
The 57-year-old actress is working with ActionAid UK to ...

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Gender

Meet The First Indian Cricketer To Make It To ICC’s Women’s Team Of The Year 2016

In a historic moment for women’s cricket in India, Indian batswoman Smriti Mandhana became the only Indian cricketer to be named in the first ever ICC Women’s T...

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Alternative Entertainment

These Young Women Are Using The Power Of Music To Turn School Children Into Changemakers

In a classroom where one student can’t write his name while the other can effortlessly read the entire Harry Potter series, how can every child be equally engaged? Ho...

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Bollywood

Madhuri Dixit Adds Star Power To AIF’s Women-Child Health Care Symposium

The American India Foundation partnered with Stanford Medicine to host a symposium on maternal and child health care in India Oct. 14, an event which saw a string of high-p...

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Gender

‘Women Empowerment Is A Core Driver Of Democratisation’

Differences between women and men are socially and culturally constructed. This was stated by MNA Dr Nafisa Shah during a two-day conference, titled ‘Youth Empowermen...

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Health

SMS Contraceptive- Condoms Are Just A Click Away

What does it take for a startup to break-even within a month of its launch? The secret is to sell a product which is high on demand, but has supply barriers. SMS Contracept...

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Alternative Entertainment

This Hearing Impaired Artist Paints With Coffee. And Her Work Is Amazing.

Dressed smartly in a lemon green top and blue jeans, Amita Dutta sat inconspicuously at her stall like any other person. It was the brilliant array of coffee paintings disp...

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Gender

90-Year-Old Runs In A Tribute To Manipur’s Women Warriors

Honouring women’s empowerment in India is about as rare as finding an ATM today that’s giving out hundreds with no line outside. So imagine our joy when we hear...

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Gender

How Cinematographer Sophie Winqvist Is Breaking Gender Norms & Fighting Biases In Bollywood

Indian cinema is full of success stories of women making it big on the Big Screen. Here is a woman who has achieved noteworthy success behind the scenes of Bollywood, despi...

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Human Rights

The Hipster Hunger For Superfoods Is Starving India's Adivasis

Every morning, Baisa, a forest-dwelling Karbi woman, gets up at 4 am to forage fresh wild edible plants and insects from the forest. At the market in Diphu, Baisa is able t...

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