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MTV: Bold, Sensitive

In 1995, Ashish Balram Nagpal, an art connoisseur, made a film called Adha Adhura which was way too progressive. In the film, Ashish Balram Nagpal, a billionaire businessma...

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Sustainable Development

New Research Says Dark Energy Doesn't Need To Exist

On Thursday, a team of researchers from Hungary's Eötvös Loránd University published research in which they claim that dark energy—the elusive substa...

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TV

Sneha Mathur, A New Role Model

In the early 1990s, at the then nascent MIFF (Mumbai International Festival for Documentary, Animation and Short Films), the package from Canada included a public interest ...

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Health

Superpower Dreams: On How India Must Respond To A Low HDI Rank

India’s rank of 131 among 188 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for 2015 and its ‘medium’ performance pose the uncomfortable question:...

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Gender

Patchy Progress on Fixing Global Gender Disparities in Science

Although women are publishing more studies, being cited more often, and securing more coveted first-author positions than they were in the mid 1990s, overall progress towar...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope, the first major optical telescope ever hurled into space, broke down a lot. Since its launch in 1990, NASA has organized five separate missions ...

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TV

Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several v...

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Sustainable Development

Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools

Matthew Mitchell had one of his first encounters with surveillance in the 1990s. At General Electric, his work usually involved repairing computers. But after a sexual hara...

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Health

Medical Care Ventures Don't Have To Be In The City To Be Commercially Viable

When you traverse the streets of rural Karnataka, you are likely to encounter several girls called Vaatsalya (Sanskrit for ‘affection’). Many of them have one t...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Think The Speed Of Light Has Slowed, And They're Trying To Prove It

In 1905, a 26-year-old Albert Einstein changed physics forever when he outlined his theory of special relativity. This theory outlined the relationship between space and ti...

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