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The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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Thought Factory

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Festivals

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

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Sustainable Development

The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis.

The UN will launch its 2030 Sustainable Development agenda at the end of this month in New York City, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders after year...

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Festivals

Tumbleweeds Film Festival Announces 12 Films For Children

For its fifth year, the Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth are bringing together a wild variety of subjects — including a soccer-savvy hamster, a Uganda...

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Hollywood

Pamela Anderson Urges M.A.C. To Stop Animal Tests.

Former Viva Glam M.A.C. model Pamela Anderson is appealing to the cosmetics company to resume its cruelty-free policy and stop paying for animal tests. M.A.C. — along...

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Sustainable Development

How Automating Evolution Could Give Machines Imaginations.

Imagine if, decades from now, a computer spat out a brilliant design for a vehicle so novel that we humans have no choice but to call it an act of imagination. One day, Uni...

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TV

True Review TV – Life Ok’s Captivating New Hope

Amol Palekar recently shared with an associate his amazement at the meticulousness of the makers of Ek Nayi Umeed: Roshni, wherein the veteran director has made a comeback ...

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Hollywood

Susan Lucci To Be Honored By Arthur Ashe Institute For Urban Health

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health will host Sports Ball 2015, their 21st annual black tie & sneakers gala, on Wednesday, October 21st at Guastavino?s, 409 East...

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