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#Chennaifloods: How Climate Change Discourse Is Marred By Gender Bias

Ever since the devastating images of Chennai deluge have been flooding our television screens, with a choked-to-neck social media trying its best to fill in the gaping blan...

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Women's Rights Must Be A Major Part OF Any Climate Deal

This Human Rights Day is particularly significant. In Paris, negotiators are trying to come to agreement on a global climate treaty, and a lot is on the line -- especially ...

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In August's Company

This columnist may have missed out on the action for August but what a month it's been! We opened our column with Drishyam, which found remake in several Southern languages...

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Cinema’s Daring Ventures

We all want to or have at some point wanted to cast aside the veil that shrouds questions pertaining to sexuality. Put the patriarchal hold on gender along with its ascribe...

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Human Rights Day 2015 - Human Rights In Childbirth As A Global Movement

In May 2012, the first ever Human Rights in Childbirth Conference took place at The Hague. The conference brought together lawyers, doctors, midwives, anthropolog...

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Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai an...

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Myntra Ad Featuring?Radhika?Apte?Gives Voice To Every Working Mom.

We’ve heard a lot of people talk about equal pay for men and women, be it in Bollywood or other walks of life. But that’s not the only thing women are discrimin...

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Initiating A Dialogue Toward Inclusive Identities

“When was the first time you realised that you were a boy or a girl?”
This was one of the initial questions asked to ten year ol...

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Aversion To Androgyny

Man’s contempt for that which he cannot understand is well documented throughout recorded history. Witch hunts, crusades, holy wars, inquisitions, imperialism and civ...

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Bollywood Celebs And Doctors Raise HIV - AIDS Awareness Campaign

1st December Tuesday marks 29 years of commemorating World AIDS Day, and in that time HIV has gone from a “death sentence” to a manageable and treatable chronic...

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