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Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

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Gender

Why Age Discrimination Is Worse For Women

It’s something that’s started to get on peoples’ nerves in pop culture: Hollywood seems totally open to older male actors, but aside from the Helen Mirren...

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Health

WHO Experts Signal Victory Over One Of Three Polio Strains

GENEVA: The world should stop vaccinating children against one of the three strains of the crippling polio virus as part of a drive to eradicate the disease once and for al...

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Retroscope

Suchitra Sen - Revisiting Icons

Standing at the far end of the room she resembled a house wife in a simple cotton saree. A few gold bangles twinkled musically round her wrist. That plump figure was out of...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Singh Is Bliing

Critics rating: 1.5  Stars

Cast:  Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta, Kay Kay Menon. Read More

Gender

How Can We Encourage Girls To Study Computer Science?

Imagine a computer programmer. What does this person look like? What is this person doing? Is the person with anyone? What kinds of hobbies might he or she have? Chances ar...

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Gender

Gender Inequality Discussion Strikes Nerve

I never understood how oblivious some people are to gender inequality until I began my Women in Western Philosophy class. The majority of our class consists of women, as on...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Fantastic Four

Critics rating: 1.5 Stars

Cast: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, ...

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Hollywood

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Returns In August

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Eventually, people with ALS lose the ability to initiate and contr...

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Thought Factory

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

– Kurt Vonnegut Read More