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Smoke And Mirrors

Pankaj Kapur returned to the stage last year, with a charming one-man show, Dopehri. Kapur is an illustrious alumnus of the National School of Drama and did quite a few pla...

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Hollywood

Stars Speak Up For Dogs In New Star-Studded PETA Video

Actors Tom Hardy, Casey Affleck, Priyanka Chopra, and Edie Falco are among the stars giving voice to local dogs in a new PETA video that encourages people to keep their ani...

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Hollywood

Sharon Osbourne Asks Croatia To Ban Fur Farming

This week, X Factor judge and animal advocate Sharon Osbourne wrote to Croatia's minister of agriculture, Davor Romić, asking him to preserve a complete ban on fur farming...

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Retroscope

MOTHERHOOD RETOLD

“I remember it being a curiously bewildering phase. A period when I was beginning to feel excluded from the mainstream activities of my family…but it took me a...

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Sustainable Development

200,000 Years Of Staggering Human Population Shown On Animated Map

Last night, during a talk on his new book Raising the Floor, longtime labor leader and current senior fellow at Columbia University Andy Stern told the story of a king and ...

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Kaleidoscope

Humour In Adversity

It would be difficult to imagine how a divorce could be turned into a comedy--but this is what writer-director Imran Rasheed has done with his new play Phir Se Shaadi!...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Rebellious Women

At a time in the past, when women were denied education or any kind of independent existence, the only ones to have some limited freedom were female performers - ...

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Gender

Menaka Gandhi Asks Women Facing Online Abuse To Use #IAmTrolled

In a move welcomed by women, especially active users of social media like Facebook and Twitter, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi announced on Tuesday that...

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Gender

Gender Parity Initiative Alters Views On What Is Masculine: ‘A Man Is Not A Man If He Beats His Wife’

On May 9, when Yakub Kurne got his sister Tasneem married at 18, it was a transformation for the Muslims in Motyal, a sleepy village in Maharashtra. Until a few years ago, ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Local Electro Chill-Pop Artist Diaspoura Creates Her Own Narrative With Demonstrations

Anjali Naik's rural South Carolina upbringing was different from that of anyone else she knew. "My dad's from Africa and my mom's from India, so I'm first-generation Americ...

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