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How India Is Raking In The Moolah While Upcycling Its Waste Into Bags, Shoes & Even Pieces Of Art!

Unlike most people Arzan Khambatta and Debanjan Roy do their best work when they are surrounded by waste, whether it’s from construction zones, offices or industrial ...

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Environment

Can Snitching On Polluters Save Delhi’s Air?

A number of solutions have been proposed to combat Delhi’s runaway pollution problem, ranging from incentiviz...

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Gender

What Feminism Really Means

I am tired. Completely exhausted. I have tried to ignore people when they make ignorant comments about feminism, crack jokes intended to belittle the movement, or just gene...

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Bollywood

Sonam Kapoor: I'm Inspired By Women From All Walks Of Life

Sonam Kapoor says she is inspired by women from all walks of life, including her mother Sunita, poet and nationalist leader Sarojini Naidu and Hollywood actresses like Mery...

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Health

Condoms On Call: An SMS Can Save You From Having That Baby

If you are still shy of buying a condom or if you just remembered that you needed lube, here’s help at hand. Here are two initiatives helping people avoid being embar...

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Festivals

Boring Movies Can Be Great: A Defense Of ‘Paterson’ And ‘Everything Else’ — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by Indie Wire, the Film Soc...

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Alternative Entertainment

Fighting Vitamin A Deficiency With A New Kind Of Sweet Potato, Radio, And People Power

Sometimes a small change can make a big difference. Across sub-Saharan Africa, a new kind of sweet potato is helping families guard against vitamin A deficiency. Radio is h...

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Environment

What If Nature, Like Corporations, Had The Rights Of A Person?

In recent years, the US supreme court has solidified the concept of corporate personhood. Following rulings in such cases as Hobby Lobb...

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Bollywood

Women Are Easy Targets, Says Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar doesn’t mince words. She has always voiced her opinion, even if it starts a debate. Earlier this month, she wrote an ope...

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Human Rights

Why Women’s Empowerment Must Start With Land Rights

Property and citizenship are in many ways what define us, and they interact in fascinating ways.
To understand how property ownership strengthens people’s abilit...

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