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Alternative Entertainment

Question of Age: The believe-it-or-not pluck of Chunibala Devi

Khalid Mohamed writes on the uncanny story of Chunibala Devi, who at the age of 80 portrayed the tetchy yet lovable village gr...

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Powerful People

The Power - Jaideep Ahlawat

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Jaideep Ahlawat, the actor who’s the talk of the town with his outstanding performan...

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Alternative Entertainment

Stories of seven inspiring women from the Middle East

On marking the International Women’s Day, Al Jazeera has compiled a list of must-see documentaries on women across the Middle Ea...

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Gender

Women Entrepreneurs who Rule the Roost

Women have come a long way from just being a homemaker. Gone are the days when women were considered no match f...

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Sustainable Development

In Kenya, Phones Replace Bank Tellers

Pauline Kimari is a pharmacist in Ndaragwa, Kenya, a small town several hours’ drive north of Nairobi. She moved there from rural Muranga, several hours away, to open...

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Bollywood

Jacqueline Bats For Ban On Animal Testing Of Cosmetics

Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez loves animals so much so that the actor is urging people to sign a petition for a global ban on animal testing of cosmetics and ingredi...

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Environment

Save The Ocean Using Social Media With The #CleanSeasPhotoChallenge

June is World Oceans Month and our friends at UN Environment have a plan to bring awareness to the pollution crisis hurting our largest bodies of water and life on this pla...

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Gender

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...

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Hollywood

Caitlyn Jenner And M·A·C Aids Fund Announce Support To Transgender Community

Caitlyn Jenner and the M·A·C AIDS Fund, the philanthropic arm of M∙A∙C Cosmetics, announced last month that the fund’s Transgender Initiative will p...

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Environment

Microplastics Killing Fish Before They Reach Reproductive Age, Study Finds

The growing problem of microplastics – tiny particles of polymer-type materials from modern industry – has been thought for several years to be a peri...

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