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Cradles In Rajasthan For India's Unwanted Babies

Rajasthan, India - In the early morning hours outside a hospital in the city of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, a newborn baby girl - still with her umbilical cord attached - was f...

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How A Small Rajasthan Town Came Together To Send This Labourer’s Son As An Engineer To Google, US

Teja Ram Sankhla and his wife Rami Devi used to sell vegetables in a small town called Sojat in Pali district of Rajasthan. They used to live in a joint family in their anc...

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Library Of Dreams: How Dhapara Village In Rajasthan Hopes To Tackle Alcoholism With A Books Library

Dhapara village, located in the remote district of Bhilwara, Rajasthan, is infamous for its long history of rampant alcoholism. The elders and even children of the village ...

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Human Rights

This Tradition Is Forcing Rajasthan Women To Let Go Of Family Property

Chaksu, Rajasthan: Days before she was married 18 years ago, K Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parent...

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Human Rights

This Tradition Is Forcing Rajasthan Women To Let Go Of Family Property

In a bid to address the imbalance, Rajasthan and other states now offer lower rate mortgages and cheaper registration when a property is registered in the name of a woman.<...

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TV

Television’s Caught Them Young!

At 9 pm Monday to Saturday, Star Plus viewers have been struck by a young protagonist in Naamkaran; Arsheen Namdaar makes a debut as Avni Mehta. A gifted actor, she commend...

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Human Rights

Rajasthan To Set Up First Authority To Guarantee Land Titles

Rajasthan is setting up an independent authority to verify and guarantee land titles in its cities, a move seen by experts as speeding up property transactions, freeing up ...

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Alternative Entertainment

American-Indian Duo Bring Vintage Studio Photography To Life Through Hand Coloured Studio Photos

Photographer Waswo X Waswo and artist Rajesh Soni talk to The Better India about A Studio in Rajasthan – a hand coloured series of black and white photographs that pa...

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Bollywood

'Pink' To Teach Rajasthan Police To Be Sensitive Towards Women

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan's movie 'Pink' will be shown to Rajasthan police personnel to teach them to be sensitive towards women. The police headquarter recently dispatched...

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Health

Why 10 Million Indian Women Secretly Undergo Abortions Every Year

Millions of women become pregnant because they lack access to contraceptive devices to limit or space their families, or are ignorant about them. In 2008, Arti Chauhan (nam...

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