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Underpaid, Untrained Workers Deployed To Fix India’s Ailing Health System

Ashas, who make about Rs 1,000 a month, are required to undergo a 23-day training spread across 12 months, but a third of the Ashas in a block in north Bihar were not train...

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Watch: This Powerful Rap About The Inhuman Practice Of Manual Scavenging

Sumeet touches upon casteism, elitism and the insensitivity which prevails even among the educated crowd about the issue. Manual scavenging is banned by law in India but it...

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Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', It Isn't: Documentary Reveals The Brutal Reality Of Manual Scavenging

Divya Bharathi’s powerful documentary Kakkoos (Toilet), about the prevalence of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu, is very difficult to watch – imagine what it is...

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‘Same-Sex Attraction Is Ok’ – Health Ministry’s New Manual For Children All Over India

“Boys should understand that when a girl says ‘no’ it means no,” reads the manual that India’s Health Ministry is now handing out across the c...

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Non-Profit Creates Open-Source Drinking Water Filter For 1/10th Of The Cost

Non-profit organization OHorizons recently created an innovative BioSand Filter that can deliver clean water at 1/10th of the cost of traditional methods. The filter hinges...

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Activist revisits prison diaries

In a session at the Times Celebrate Bandra Festival, activist Arun Ferreira, who was branded a 'Naxalite' by the state and charged with sedition before being acquitted of a...

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Here's How Nawazuddin Siddiqui Is Saving Water In His Village

Whenever time permits, Nawazuddin Siddiqui takes off to his village, Budhana, in Uttar Pradesh to oversee the family farms. His late father, Nawabuddin, was a farmer and pl...

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In The Future, We'll Leave Software Bug Hunting To The Machines

"Being able to protect the entire cyber attack surface that is present in our lives, and doing it entirely manually, is a herculean task,” says David Melski, the vice...

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Discrimination Runs Deep In India: It's Time To Accept It

It was accepting that enslaving another human being is callous that led to the abolishment of the Atlantic slave trade. But it took nearly four centuries to get there. It w...

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I Am Transgender. And I Oppose Safe Schools

It has a particular significance for me because on Australia Day 2012, both Ricky Ponting and I were awarded the Order of Australia.It should have been the proudest day of ...

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