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Vernacular Content Is The Next Big Thing: You Tube's Satya Raghavan

Content Asia's Janine Stein interviewed YouTube India's Satya Raghavan on the vdonxt asia stage last week. A look at their discussion. "Tech, content, platform, revenue, la...

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Gender

Blank Noise Movement Speaks Out Against Sexual Harassment

When the clock struck midnight, and we welcomed the New Year, Bengaluru had another tale to tell — a mob of men caused utter chaos as they sexually harassed women who...

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Health

Slum Health Is Not Urban Health: Why We Must Distinguish Between The Two

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’...

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Human Rights

A Chocolate Candy Aims To Make The World Think About Hunger

It is a very attractive truffle.It's made of the usual ingredients — cocoa butter, sugar, chocolate — with a not-so-typical addition. Thirty grams of dried toma...

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Sustainable Development

Water-Sensitive Innovations To Transform Health Of Slums And Environment

Polluted water and inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene cause around 80% of diseases and one in four deaths in developing countries. The world is recognising tha...

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Environment

9 Things You Can Do About Climate Change

My friend the writer and editor Laura M. Browning asked me to write about environmental action for her newsletter “One Small Thing,” which advises people on per...

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Festivals

In The Mood For Chinese Movies? Check Out Spring Film Festival

Cineastes can now sate their curiosity about Chinese film at Shangri-La Plaza’s Spring Film Festival from January 25-29. Those wishing to experience how cinema has si...

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Alternative Entertainment

These 10 Powerful Images Shut Down All Who Blame Women’s Clothes For Sexual Assault

Usually when the gory details of molestation, sexual harassment, and rape cases become news in India, some people end up erroneously dissecting the clothes worn by the vict...

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan: Now, 50 Percent Of Work Force On Sets Is Female

At the launch of book 'Once Upon A Time In India - A Century Of Indian Cinema', written by film critic-cum-author Bhawana Somaaya, Amitabh, asked by her about the changes t...

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Hollywood

Forest Whitaker Honored For Work In Peacebuilding, Conflict-Resolution

Actor and United Nations agency special envoy Forest Whitaker has been celebrated as a leader in peacebuilding and conflict-resolution, empowering young people in communiti...

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