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Human Rights

Casa Rana: Tamil Nadu's Foster Home For HIV-Positive Kids

India has always struggled with providing facilities for the terminally ill. Whether for the aged or mentally unwell, palliative care is an arena in which we are sorely lac...

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Festivals

'Nowhere To Hide' In Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017

At no point during Zaradasht Ahmed’s blistering documentary Nowhere to Hide does anybody express regret for the departure of American soldiers from Iraq. That remains...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Puzzling Way That Writing Heals The Body

In 1986 the psychology professor James Pennebaker discovered something extraordinary, something which would inspire a generation of researchers to conduct several hundred s...

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Bollywood

Shruti Haasan Says She Is Proud To Have Produced A Film For Social Cause

Daughter of veteran actor Kamal Haasan and Bollywood actress Shruti Haasan feels proud to have backed an ad film for a social cause in her maiden production venture. Daught...

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Environment

How Buzzing Bees Are Helping Save Themselves

At this point, most of us climate change believers are well aware of the symbiotic relationship between bees and a healthy environment. Despite their tiny stature, they pla...

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Alternative Entertainment

10 Story High Mural Of Muddy Waters Goes Up In Chicago

If you find yourself near State and Washington streets in Chicago, look up and you'll see a mural of bluesman Muddy Waters rising 10 stories high. It was painted, the Chica...

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Hollywood

Alliance For Women In Media Foundation Presents The 42nd Annual Gracie Awards

This week, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) handed out the 42nd Annual Gracie Awards to a packed house at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Cali...

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Human Rights

Girls As Young As Five Are Sold To Prostitution In India: Ruchira Gupta

Girls as young as five are being sold into the multi-billion dollar sex trafficking industry, said Ruchira Gupta, founder and president of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, at a ta...

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Hollywood

Scene By Scene, This Is What Makes The Babadook Such An LGBT Icon

When I first saw The Babadook, I wrote that the monster therein was, to my eyes at least, a metaphor for grief. What I apparently missed was that all that tapping and flapp...

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Kaleidoscope

Thirty-Seven Years Later

Today, the media is full of crimes against women, victims are coming forward to file complaints, there are many more arrests and even few convictions even if they are not a...

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