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Amma Only, On Prime Time

Never have Indian television channels been subjected to the frenetic pace, frenzied reporting and commentating as they all did on Tuesday, December 6 when J. Jayalalitha wa...

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Environment

Six New Species Discovered Near Thermal Vents on Ocean Floor

In 2011, a team of marine ecologists led by Jon Copley sent a remotely operated submarine nearly two miles underwater to observe a field of hydrothermal vents in the southw...

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Alternative Entertainment

Fishing For Stories Of The Earth

Four years ago, Scottish geologist Iain Stewart made his first ever visit to Kerala along with a BBC crew in search of karimeen, the backwater fish that’s also a favo...

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Alternative Entertainment

Pedro Almodovar Has Made 20 Films And Is Still Making Great Ones

Is there anyone like Pedro Almodóvar? For those who know his work—and for a sometimes-experimental queer Spanish director, that’s more people than you&rs...

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Gender

Kerala Is Making History Once Again by Starting India’s First Transgender School

After becoming the first Indian state to adopt a transgender policy, Kerala is all set to write history yet again by starting India’s first transgender residential sc...

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Sustainable Development

200,000 Years Of Staggering Human Population Shown On Animated Map

Last night, during a talk on his new book Raising the Floor, longtime labor leader and current senior fellow at Columbia University Andy Stern told the story of a king and ...

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Environment

Dancing For A Cause: Kiribati’s Climate Activist Olympic Weight Lifter

Few casual observers would recall the winner of the men’s 105kg weightlifting category at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Many, though, will remember the athlete...

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Can Television Be Fair To Muslims?

FOR the Nuxalbari Estate in the lush hills of India’s north-east, relief came in the nick of time. With winter pruning of its tea plantations at hand, 600 workers wer...

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Bollywood

Akshay Donates Rs 9 Lakhs To Family Of Jawan Whose Body Was Mutilated After Killing

Once more Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has come to the aid of a family stricken by the death of a jawan in Jammu and Kashmir border. On November 22, suspected Pakistani tro...

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Stephen Hawking's Latest PSA Takes On 'Diet Tips'

Stephen Hawking, while a bona fide genius, is also the type of friend who regularly tells it like it is, even when you kind of wish he wouldn’t. Earlier this month, h...

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