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Human Rights

One Step Forward, Two Back – India’s Uneven Progress In Correcting Gender Imbalance

India’s sex ratio at birth – or the number of girl children born for every 1,000 boys born – has improved slightly over the last 10 years. But there are n...

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TV

Acting, No Child’s Play

It’s not often that an episode or sequence gets lifted to a level by some outstanding acting. It’s not necessary that the sterling performance is from an adult ...

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“Informed Women are Empowering the Less Advantaged Ones for a Better World” – Vinta Nanda

Men and women are said to be created equally but that may still be one for the books. Over a century of collectively fighting for a place in society, true feminist continue...

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Gender

Bollywood & Sons, You Think You Can Bully Kangana Ranaut Out Of The Film Industry?

My name is Vinta Nanda and I have been around in the Indian entertainment industry since the mid-1980s. I started off as an assistant director under my idol Nadira Babbar i...

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Festivals

A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...

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TV

Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several v...

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Gender

Women In Gangotri Are Building Their Own Road & Won’t Vote Unless Political Parties Help Them!

Women from villages all over Uttarakhand have been making their voices heard through Uttarakhand Mahila Manch, an all-woman organisation.According to a report by The Times ...

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CORO and and Photography Promotion Trust (PPT) co-host ‘Right to City’ photography exhibition at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2017

Together, CORO and PPT hope to tackle the crucial issue of the exclusion of marginalized populations in India. The emphasis of this project is to highlight the value of div...

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Health

Soon, Women Can Get Injectable Contraceptives At Govt Hospitals

The Heallth and Family Welfare department is all set to introduce injectable contraceptives for women in the government hospitals by February end. So far, the state has had...

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TV

Wah Bachchon, Wah!

I must admit, I am totally hooked on to Peshwa Bajirao. The producers must be lauded for casting a bunch of child actors who are simply outstanding. Sphere Origins has put ...

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