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Thought Factory

So Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!

The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that P...

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Kaleidoscope

Long Arm Of Fear

It’s taken a while for this 2012 to come out in an English translation, but it was worth the wait for readers of Japanese crime fiction (Keigo Higashino is already a ...

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Gender

Wonder Woman, Death In The Gunj, Show The Term Female Director Must Get Obsolete

As you read this, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman is enjoying its run in theatres, already claiming the largest opening ever for a film directed by a ‘female direct...

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Health

Terminal Cancer Patient With Months To Live Conquers Mount Everest

A terminal cancer patient who has months left to live has conquered Mount Everest. Ian Toothill, 47, from Sheffield, reached the top of the world’s highest mountain o...

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Hollywood

Joan Rivers Stars In Posthumous PETA Campaign

Joan Rivers, who would have turned 84 on June 8, lives on — in new books, on QVC, and now in a PETA campaign urging animal adoption, using one of her trademark jokes....

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Gender

Understanding The Relationship Between Indian Women & Skirts

From school uniforms to dressing feminine for brand positioning— the life cycle of an Indian skirt Politicians and their overzealous Twitter followers should stay awa...

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Human Rights

Casa Rana: Tamil Nadu's Foster Home For HIV-Positive Kids

India has always struggled with providing facilities for the terminally ill. Whether for the aged or mentally unwell, palliative care is an arena in which we are sorely lac...

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Festivals

'Nowhere To Hide' In Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017

At no point during Zaradasht Ahmed’s blistering documentary Nowhere to Hide does anybody express regret for the departure of American soldiers from Iraq. That remains...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Puzzling Way That Writing Heals The Body

In 1986 the psychology professor James Pennebaker discovered something extraordinary, something which would inspire a generation of researchers to conduct several hundred s...

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Bollywood

After Farhan, Now Vidya Balan Says ‘Bus Ab Bahut Hogaya’

After actor Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan extended her support to the campaign ‘Bus Ab Bahut Hogaya — Enough is Enough’ which is led by Population Foundation...

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