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Fearless Alex

Stephenie Meyer, author of the immensely successful young adult books has gone adult with her new thriller, The Chemist. Meyer’s Twilight novels were turned into hit ...

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Retroscope

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Comedy, for some odd reason, has not been a favourite genre for Indian film makers. There is a marked preference for sentimental romances, love stories, family melodrama, g...

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Human Rights

A Lesson For Bollywood: How Regional Films Are Tackling Land Rights, Championing Farmers

A villainous company. Corrupt government officials. A heroic defender of farmers emerging victorious from a fight over land. This is far from a typical storyline for Indian...

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Environment

Tesla Moves Beyond Electric Cars With New California Battery Farm

From the road, the close to 400 white industrial boxes packed into 1.5 acres of barren land in Ontario, California, a little more than 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles, l...

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Alternative Entertainment

If You Think Art Is Elitist, Chennai’s New Public Art Initiative Will Definitely Change Your Mind

When was the last time you went to an art gallery? The painter Edgar Degas once said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Yet, not many eve...

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Health

Soon, Women Can Get Injectable Contraceptives At Govt Hospitals

The Heallth and Family Welfare department is all set to introduce injectable contraceptives for women in the government hospitals by February end. So far, the state has had...

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Environment

The Eco Guide To Good Plastic

Cruel, but I had no choice. If we carry on creating and consuming plastic as we are now, and hoping that trainer innovation will do the heavy lifting (it won’t), by 2...

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TV

Wah Bachchon, Wah!

I must admit, I am totally hooked on to Peshwa Bajirao. The producers must be lauded for casting a bunch of child actors who are simply outstanding. Sphere Origins has put ...

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Sustainable Development

Here’s How to Build The First Large-Scale Quantum Computer

In what may best be described as a quantum leap, a group of researchers from the University of Sussex have unveiled what they claim is the first realistic blueprint for the...

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Health

Why Dengue Turns Fatal For Patients With Second Infection

American scientists have made a research breakthrough in their study on dengue, a viral disease that wreaked havoc across India in the last two years, that could help treat...

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