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Dalit women in Rajasthan tortured, beaten and killed after being branded ‘Witches’

A sting operation was carried out in September by Ms. Ahluwalia, chairperson of Baal Evum Mahila Chetana Samiti, along with two women volunteers and a team of jour...

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Human Rights

An Eye for an Aye

The daughter of P. Lankesh, a well-known Kannada journalist, Gauri Lankesh was an outspoken journalist. She worked with her father at his magazine, Lankesh Patrike...

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Movies

We must start taking off our Condemnatory lenses. – Lucknow Central

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Diana Penty, Gippy Grewal, Deepak Dobriyal, Ronit Roy, Inaamulhaq, Rajesh Sharma

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Human Rights

Consent and its Consequence

Rape and child protection laws seem to have differing notions about consent and marriage- according to our existing rules, sex with a woman under the age of 18 is a crimina...

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Trending

Autumn of 2017 And the List of Films to fall For!

The summer of 2017 was a forgettable one for film enthusiasts, with several box-office crashes and lukewarm cinema. The upcoming fall, though, seems promising, with interes...

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Bollywood

Emraan Hashmi Lends Support to #1SmallStep

Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi recently lent his support to 1SmallStep, to help children diagnosed with cancer, and is working to help build an emergency fund to ailing chil...

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Gender

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Queer on the Silver Screen

Over the last few decades, the world has seen a change in the perception of queer people among the masses.  More and more LGBTQ persons began to express their identiti...

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Bollywood

Of Pehredaars and Predators

Since July, Pehredaar Piya Ki, a new television show being broadcast on Sony TV channel has been repeated derided for controversial content, and is now being voted by users...

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Festivals

Ringing in Janmashtami

India is a colourful nation, with a variety of rituals and celebrations spread across the land. Every month has some or the other ‘auspicious’ day, that has evo...

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