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Why India’s Healthcare Trends In 2016 Do Not Bode Well For The Future

India should not persevere with its focus on privatising healthcare or relying on health insurance.The image that would haunt me for a long time from this year is that of D...

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Human Rights

Human Rights And Health Inequality. A Worldwide Phenomenon

A purely biomedical understanding of diminished health and preventable mortality misses key dimensions of social and economic issues.
1. The differences in health stat...

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Sustainable Development

France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail

Who needs mailmen when you've got drones? That's what France thinks, anyway. The French postal service is beginning an experimental drone delivery program to deliver parcel...

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Sustainable Development

These ‘Plastic’ Bags Are Actually Made of Potato & Tapioca – and Can Become Animal Food on Disposal!

The partial or total ban on plastic bags in several Indian cities is often lauded as a welcome move by most people. As it should be! But if you ask those who cannot afford ...

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Hollywood

Socially-conscious children’s films use artistic platform to educate

Hollywood has always been criticized for trying to engineer American society. For example, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough accused Brokeback Mountain of advancing a “ra...

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Bollywood

Vidya Balan Admires Gender Neutrality In Cinema

Vidya Balan has a special admiration for directors, who do not carry the baggage of gender stereotypes in their films. A case in point being Sujoy Ghosh, whose latest outin...

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Thought Factory

A Paradox

“Didi, you want to play a game?”
“Of course, what do you want to play?”
“We can play temple run or candy crush”
“U...

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Sustainable Development

Haptic Feedback Prototype Lets You Grasp Objects In VR

Some folks already find virtual reality devices prohibitively expensive, but the haptic feedback devices that attempt to pull the sensation of touch into the normally visua...

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Health

Keeping Tab On Child, Maternal Health Gets Smarter In Raj

Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) carrying heavy registers with hand-written details on pregnant women, antenatal care, post-na...

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Four Video Essays Explain The Mastery Of Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Rip)

With each film he made, the internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami left critics grasping for superlatives, and his death this past Monday has challeng...

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