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The History Of All Girls Band & The Rock World Which Rejected Them

It was 1964 and singer Genyusha “Goldie” Zelkowitz had a problem. The all-girl band she formed in 1962 with drummer Ginger Bianco, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, ...

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Human Rights

Nestle, Mars Vow To Clean Up Pet Food Supply Chain

The move by the world’s two largest pet food companies puts pressure on suppliers to end labour abuses.Swiss food giant Nestlé SA and US candy and pet food com...

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Sustainable Development

Why Scientists Are Listening To Insects

Researchers are reviving a field of study grounded in both music and biology: wingbeat frequency. This peculiar line of study could help us fight malaria It's a warm summer...

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Environment

Sometimes The Best Way To Make Change Is To Make Trouble

We decided to go to Malta because we were fed up with the inactivity from NGOs about the endless trapping and killing of migratory birds there. We first went four years ago...

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Festivals

Rural Film Festivals Are The Next Frontier Of LGBTQ Tolerance

In the fall of 2015, in tiny Lewisburg, West Virginia, Tim Ward and Jon Matthews were gearing up for the second annual Appalachian Queer Film Festival (AQFF for short). The...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Handmaids Tale Lifts Hulu With Dystopian Vision

A generation after the book was published and became a movie, "The Handmaid's Tale" has been turned into a jolting TV series, representing a huge step up in class for Hulu....

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Gender

Woman Who Debated With Buddha

Neelakesi proved that anybody can be a rishi, irrespective of birth A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a fascinating character, who serves as the focal point for a now lo...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Is An Ideal Secular Structure, Says Raveena Tandon

The mast mast girl of Bollywood, Raveena Tandon, was in the capital recently, but unlike her usual happy-go-lucky self, this time she was in a pensive mood, talking about r...

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TV

Ekta Kapoor, Still A Pioneer

I am Ekta Kapoor’s ardent detractor for the OTT melodramas she has filled living rooms across India at prime time. Sure shows like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu thi have...

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Kaleidoscope

Bollywood Then And Now


Vijay Tendulkar had some sharp observations about life in Mumbai, which included the underbelly of the film industry, that is the murky world of strugglers and unpaid...

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