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Letting India's Women Own Land

This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s m...

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Human Rights

Bonded Labourers In Brick Kilns Slowly Learn They Have Rights

Thousands of brick kiln workers in Maharashtra are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic amenities and fair treatment - but remain in de...

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Gender

20 Women In Hollywood Making A Difference From Behind The Camera

The fight for gender equality will always seem to inevitably fall in front of the camera, so starkly visible amongst its onscreen heroines and celebrity actors. But, to bri...

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Alternative Entertainment

Campaign To Promote Women Artistes Comes With A Surprising Challenge

Frida Kahlo was the first 20th-century Mexican artist to sell a painting to the Louvre. Suzanne Valadon was the first woman accepted to the Société Natio...

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Human Rights

This App Is Helping Young Iranians Dodge the Morality Police

Anonymous developers in Iran are making people’s lives just a little bit easier with Gershad, an app that helps Iranians identify (and avoid) locations where officers...

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TV

Content Makeover

Television channels are known to have shrugged their shoulders at non-Hindi preferred viewers. The argument being: these eyeballs aren?t money spinners. It is indeed ironic...

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Gender

Hollywood’s Female Filmmakers Open Up About Gender Disparity

With the ongoing clamour over gender parity in Hollywood, women in the film industry offer bracing tales of what to expect — and give encouraging words to keep at it ...

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Hollywood

Hollywood's Female Filmmakers Open Up About Gender Disparity

With the ongoing clamour over gender parity in Hollywood, women in the film industry offer bracing tales of what to expect — and give encouraging words to keep at it ...

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Health

Perambalur Brings Maternal Deaths To Near Zero

In a remarkably quick turnaround in a key public healthcare indicator, Perambalur has been able to bring down its maternal deaths to near-zero levels in four years largely ...

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Health

India’s First Medical Technology Incubator Is Investing In The Health Care System

Medical technology is slated to be a $40 billion market in India by 2025. But it’s largely ignored, says Siraj Dhanani, founder ofInnAccel, India’s first medica...

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