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Raveena Tandon, Nandita Das Speak On Marital Rape And It Makes A Lot Of Sense

At a time when a lot is written and talked about women empowerment and gender bias, the issue of ‘marital rape’ or ‘sex without consent’ is somehow ...

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Retroscope

Retroscope : The Date

I reached a little after 11 a.m. the hour family courts open in Bandra East. In the lobby stood my husband’s assistant. Seeing me, the man quickly shifted his ga...

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Human Rights

Child Rights Commission Not In Favour Of Amendment

Expressing reservation over the Union government’s proposed amendments to the Child Labour Act to allow children aged less than 14 to work in non-hazardous places suc...

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Sustainable Development

Keeping The Water Flowing In Rural Villages

Keeping projects in business for the long term has been a constant theme of the Fixes column, and if sustainability has a poster child, it would be a water pump.   Tra...

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Gender

Letting India's Women Own Land

This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s m...

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Bollywood

Abhishek Bachchan Travels To Different Cities To Raise Funds For Underprivileged Kids.

Several Bollywood personalities have supported and promoted varied causes including working for the development of kids, women and even animals. While his father and megast...

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Gender

Bhutan Tackles Violence Against Women For "Refusing Sex, Burning The Dinner"

Sonam Zangmo endured abuse at the hands of her husband for two years before finally walking out on him after the birth of her daughter.
"He used to lay his hands on me...

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Bollywood

Evelyn Sharma To Launch School Of Seams

Amidst several actresses who have extended their support to varied social causes, one amongst them is Evelyn Sharma. The actress, who launched her Seams For Dreams (SFD) la...

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Gender

Resistant Is Gender Equality A Design Problem?

Simple redesigns of working life can make big differences in helping women overcome institutional biases. Because humans are naturally biased—we evolved to use stereo...

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Festivals

Monuments Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival Will Open With League Of Exotique Dancers, An Homage To The Golden Age Of Burlesque

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opens with Toronto filmmaker Rama Rau’s League of Exotique Dancers, a revealing visit to Las Vegas and the go...

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