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A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...

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Alternative Entertainment

Can't Wait For These 8 Women-Centric Films To Hit The Screens In 2017

Thanks to the likes of immensely talented actors Vidya Balan, Kangana Ranaut and Alia Bhatt, Bollywood is no longer taking its female leads for any less than their male cou...

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Health

World Health Organization Names 12 Superbugs. Most Are Present In India.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant `priority pathogens' -a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the gre...

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Health

Five Bright Spots and Four Causes For Worry From The First Official Indian Health Survey In A Decade

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare finally released the findings of the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS), India's primary source of data on public health,...

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Human Rights

Reform Hold The Key To Cut Litigation In India Land Deals, Say Analysts

The process of land acquisition in India has been the source of increasing political and legal contestation for almost 200 years, says the Land Rights Initiative Reforms to...

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Environment

'Clean Coal', CCS And CSG Will Not Save Fossil Fuels – Their Game Is Up

Every few years the fossil fuel industry pressures politicians to force “clean coal”, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and more recently coal seam gas (CSG) on ...

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Kaleidoscope

Solo Power

Alyque Padamsee’s Broken Images, starring Shabana Azmi, the English version of Girish Karnad’s Kannada original Odakalu Bimba completed 101 shows recently.
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Human Rights

Rights Over Leaves, Flowers Give Indian Tribal Groups More Reason To Stay Put

In the pleasant climate of February, it is hard to imagine that day time temperatures in May in the arid Vidarbha region of India's Maharashtra state can climb to a swelter...

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Alternative Entertainment

Let Your Next Corporate Gift Also Help India’s Rural Artisans

Thank a client, reward an employee, or celebrate new and continuing business. Celebrate a colleague’s success, reward a team player, pamper a client, or simply make a...

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Bollywood

Vidya Balan Speaks Up In Support Of Gurmehar Kaur

Gurmehar Khan, the Delhi University student, recently created a stir online with her post against the ABVP student organisation. While the daughter of an Indian Army martyr...

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