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Are music festivals getting Bollywood-ised?

The Indian music festival scene — for long the stomping grounds of the independent (indie, to the cool crowd) music scene-loving fans — saw Bollywood aka the ma...

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Gender

A 16-Year-Old Tribal Girl From MP Is Going To An Oxford School To Learn English

16-year-old Asha Gond is a tribal girl from a little known village called Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. When she swings by on her skateboard, you’d be hard pressed to re...

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Festivals

Sundance Film Festival: London Sets 2017 Dates

The Sundance Institute and U.K. exhibitor Picturehouse said Tuesday that the Sundance Film Festival: London, an international version of Robert Redford's Utah festival, wil...

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Former Independent Editor Amol Rajan Named BBC's News Media Editor

Rajan leaves his role as editor-at-large of The Independent. He became the newspaper’s editor in June 2013 and remained there after it closed its print operation in M...

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Hollywood

Robert Kardashian Among Honorees At Gabrielle's Angel Foundation Angel Ball 2016

Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research has announced that Angel Ball 2016 will honor the work of Carl H. June, M.D., Director of the Center for Cellular Immunothe...

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Health

Teenage Pregnancies: Why Adivasi Babies Are Dying In Dadra And Nagar Haveli

In June, 18-year-old Parsula Takre attended the funeral of her first child who she did not have a chance to name. A few villagers gathered and buried her son. Takre gave bi...

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Ben Smith Completes 401st Marathon In 401 Days

Ben Smith, 34, began his charity attempt on 1 September 2015 and ran 284 consecutive marathons in 284 days. He then developed an umbilical hernia in June which forced him t...

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Human Rights

India’s Anti-Trafficking Efforts Still Need Improvement

The 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which the State Department released on June 30, documents a significant increase in both the number of human trafficking prose...

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Environment

Paris Bans All Cars Made Before 1997 To Reduce Pollution

The ban, which aims to reduce air pollution in the City of Light, came into effect Friday and makes Paris the first city in the country to officially establish a "limited t...

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Human Rights

UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual...

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