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Sustainable Development

Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ?right? way to die? We?re experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ?Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,? by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Environment

Apathy And Progress Are Killing Turkey's Famous Flamingo Lake

Inside the yard, mountains of the blindingly bright salt are piled three stories high by a conveyer belt being fed by a convoy of trucks. Except for three men sitting aroun...

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Thought Factory

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

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Retroscope

The Darkest Hour

“Police records in India reveal that a woman is raped every 34 minutes, molested every 26 minutes, kidnapped every 43 minutes and killed every 93 minutes”
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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Enemy At The Gates

With the terrorist attack at Pathankot in the news, Pakistan is once again supervillain in the Indian media. However, when it comes to portraying the evil of terrorism in W...

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Gender

Yes, Even Doctor Barbie Sends Girls the Wrong Message

The last few years have been tough ones for Barbie. Sales have declined significantly, dropping 16 percent in 2014 alone. In an effort to jumpstart the sagging brand, Matte...

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Hollywood

The Globe's Emma Rice: 'If Anybody Bended Gender It Was Shakespeare'

The fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women– and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men – will not stop Emma Rice’s mis...

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Gender

Hanging With The Girl-Kings Of One Of The World’s Only Matriarchies

Mawlynnong isn’t like the rest of India, or the rest of the world for that matter. Tucked into the jungle of the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, on the border of...

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Festivals

Canada's Coolest Film Festival?

Every year as I make my annual pilgrimage to the Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia, I vow to take up some wintry pursuit such as skiing (or bobsled racing!), in be...

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Gender

A Kabaddi Tournament Helps Break Gender Barriers

For many of the families of Shivaji Nagar, even the idea of girls entering the playground without an accompanying male family member was alien. When Sabiya Sheikh tried to ...

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