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Human Rights

India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law

India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Right...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - A Li'l Bit Of Kindness

Intolerance is the word of the season-- all over the world, people are losing their patience, compassion and that sense of community that makes life worthwhile. What does a...

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Human Rights

What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty

IF social scientists and policy makers have learned anything about how to help the world’s poorest people, it’s not to trust our intuitions or anecdotal evidenc...

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Health

Family Planning Is 'Critical Link' In Eradicating Poverty

Giving people access to family planning is crucial to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, reproductive health experts said this week. Speaking at an...

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Bollywood

Arjun Kapoor Talks About Gender Inequality Through Ki & Ka!

Arjun Kapoor feels homemakers are not given their due in the society and the actor says his upcoming film Ki &Ka will begin conversations about them. In the R Balki-dir...

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Environment

German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too

Germany — IN the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pa...

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Festivals

Film Festivals Can Compete With Smartphones: Berlinale Chief

Film festivals still have a bright future in a world in which more audiences watch movies and television series on smaller and smaller devices, the veteran head of Germany'...

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Independent

Rush Hour Producer Arthur Sarkissian Is Making A Movie About Elderly Jewel Thieves

One of the hardest things about getting old, other than all of your friends dying and the lack of good Hollywood roles, is the way that people assume you can’t really...

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Retroscope

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

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Bollywood

Actresses’ Lives Don’t Stop At 30 Or Marriage: VidyaBalan

While marriage and kids were earlier looked at as hindrances in the careers of female actors in Bollywood, it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, feels actor VidyaBa...

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