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Givenchy: The Designer Hailed As A 'Personality Maker' By Audrey Hepburn

A retrospective exhibition self-curated by a 90-year-old legend of fashion has all the hallmarks of an ego-flaunting vanity project. But Hubert de Givenchy, who attended th...

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Health

16 Million Reasons To Be Optimistic About Polio

People often ask me how I know the world is getting better. I usually point to numbers like this one: Because of efforts to eradicate polio by groups like Rotary Internatio...

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Human Rights

When Will Land Rights For South Asian Women Become A Reality?

While Meghalaya’s ancient culture empowers indigenous women with land ownership, legal protections to own and manage property are missing.In Meghalaya, India’s ...

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Sustainable Development

Beyond Binaries: PeriPhery, A Startup That Finds Jobs For Trans People

Ever looked at a transgender beggar at a signal and wondered why they can’t get jobs instead? After all, they look fit enough. But how many of us will actually rub sh...

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Festivals

Goop Festival: Gwyneth Glows Like A Radioactive Swan

With its kale ice-cream, rose quartz eggs and inhouse shaman, Paltrow’s ‘wellness adventure’ is silly and fun. But is it only for rich, white people who a...

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Alternative Entertainment

Okja Director Bong Joon-Ho: 'In Films Animals Are Either Soul Mates or Butchered

The director’s bold and bonkers fantasies have sparked comparisons with Spielberg, and his latest film delivers a chilling message via the relationship between a girl...

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Health

Centre Plans Saas-Bahu Meets To Promote Family Planning

In a bid to promote family planning, the Union Health Ministry plans to organise Saas-Bahu Sammelans in 146 districts where the fertility rate is 3 or more. The national av...

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Gender

Why It's So Hard For Women To Figure Out What To Wear To Work In 2017

In 1985, Donna Karan launched a collection centered on what she called her seven easy pieces. It offered working women a stylish, flattering capsule wardrobe that could be ...

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Human Rights

I Felt Like One Of My Father's Songbirds, Let Out Of Its Cage': Driving As A Woman In Saudi Arabia

It began as a protest and became a national talking point. A women’s rights activist reveals what happened when she filmed herself behind the wheel In 2011, as the Ar...

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Festivals

Pixar Shares 'Coco' Secrets At Annecy Animation Festival

An audience of animation students and assorted cartoon enthusiasts went cuckoo for “Coco,” as representatives of Pixar — co-director Adrian Molina and pro...

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