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Human Rights

Married At 14, Abandoned By 15: The Forgotten Girls Of Dhaka

More than half of girls in Bangladesh marry before they are 18, exposing them to abuse. But if their husbands abandon them, it can offer a route to freedom On the northern ...

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Eye Think

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

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Festivals

15th River To River - Press Release And Invite For The Pre-Opening Exhibition.

A tribute to Deepa Mehta, known all over the world for her Elements trilogy. On Sunday 6 December (8.30 pm), the Indian director will present ...

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Retroscope

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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Retroscope

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

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Sustainable Development

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sust...

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Thought Factory

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sustainability, l...

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Trending

Widowed Before They’re Old Enough To Marry, Life Is A Battle For These Girls

Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

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TV

Of Mirth And Soaps

There was this scene in Thakan, last week, where the newly married bride Sadaf goes into the kitchen to make tea. Foxed by an unfamiliar kitchen in the lavish house of her ...

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Environment

Mumbai faces biggest threats from climate change of all cities in world

India is among the ‘extreme risk’ countries where economic impacts of climate change will be most felt by 2025, according to a report. In its sixth annual Clima...

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