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Human Rights

The Case Of Triple Talaq

“Can what is sinful in the eyes of God be lawful? If God considers it a sin, it can’t be legal. Can it be?” Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar’s que...

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Festivals

Eight Kashish Film Festival Strives To Open Minds To Diversity

The eighth edition of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival aims to explore the diversity of LGBTQI communities. The annual Kashish Mumbai International Queer Fi...

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Alternative Entertainment

Chris Cornell & The Grunge Gods Gone To Soon

Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell died unexpectedly at age 52. Here, The Daily Beast remembers him and other grunge-rock icons. Chris Cornell is undisputedl...

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Hollywood

Angela Bassett Joins For Your SweetHeart Campaign

Award-winning actress Angela Bassett, along with 11 leading patient and professional organizations, is joining For Your SweetHeart: Where diabetes and heart disease meet &m...

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Powerful People

Aruna Raje Patil: Committed To Feminism

Aruna Raje Patil passed out of FTII with a gold medal in 1969 becoming the first trained woman technician in the industry.
At the beginning of her career Aruna Raje w...

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The Legend Of Baba Ghor

Braving leopard warnings and bumpy rural roads, the writer visits a shrine from another continent and another time Ten kilometres out of Bharuch in southern Gujarat, the ai...

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Human Rights

Why Mentally Don't Need An Exorcists Cane

The Mental Healthcare Bill 2016, passed in March by Parliament has been welcomed by many for introducing reforms to the existing Mental Health Act of 1987. Among its severa...

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Environment

These Bicycles Eat Smog & Spit Out Clean Air

Bike sharing programs in China are big right now. There are over 30 Chinese start-ups and one of the largest of them all, Ofo, has about 2.2 million bikes in 43 cities. Daa...

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Alternative Entertainment

'Augustown', A Novel Of The Sacred & The Profane In Jamaica

The richness and heft that is lost in the making of official accounts of the world is one of Miller’s favorite themes. Another of his poems speculates that a law the ...

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Bollywood

Shabana: Long Way From Being Perfect, But A Start Has Been Made

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi is quite impressed with the kind of roles that female actors are portraying in films these days. She says, in the past, heroines were merely addi...

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