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Environment

Why Living Around Nature Can Make You Live Longer

Living closer to nature is better for your health, new research suggests — and may even extend your life. A study just published in the journal Environmental Health P...

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Human Rights

Reliving The Summer Of Love

California’s summer calendar is packed with events commemorating 50 years of the hippie revolution of 1967 I am in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood,...

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TV

A Definitive Historical

In School we were taught that Shivaji thwarted the attacks of the mighty armies of the Mughals with his guerrilla warfare tactics. Thanks to a Jesuit History Professor, he ...

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Kaleidoscope

Devious Heroines

Female protagonists in novels are getting to be increasingly dangerous; and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl seems to have triggered off a trend of the nasty heroine. Sarah ...

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Health

Hard Questions About Indian Healthcare

It is heartening that healthcare issues are receiving political attention—but current policy measures are lacking
India’s top politicians rarely make infl...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar: Build Small Toilets Like Phone Booths

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar on Monday urged the Maharashtra government to construct toilets in every nook and corner on the lines of the now defunct telephone booths to ma...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Handmaids Tale Lifts Hulu With Dystopian Vision

A generation after the book was published and became a movie, "The Handmaid's Tale" has been turned into a jolting TV series, representing a huge step up in class for Hulu....

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Gender

Staying Home With Your Kids Does Not Make You Anti-Feminist

I was at a dinner party recently where a woman accused me of being anti-feminist. I was really taken aback; I’m a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent gui...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Is An Ideal Secular Structure, Says Raveena Tandon

The mast mast girl of Bollywood, Raveena Tandon, was in the capital recently, but unlike her usual happy-go-lucky self, this time she was in a pensive mood, talking about r...

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TV

Ekta Kapoor, Still A Pioneer

I am Ekta Kapoor’s ardent detractor for the OTT melodramas she has filled living rooms across India at prime time. Sure shows like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu thi have...

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