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Hollywood

A €12 Million Koons Sculpture And DiCaprio’s Banksy Sell For Charity At Cannes

Hollywood brought its obsession with contemporary art to France this week, as amFAR’s 22nd annual star-studded “Cinema Against AIDS” benefit hit the H&oci...

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Thought Factory

Of Right Words And Persistent Images

‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, o...

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Thought Factory

Abstract Property: Imperialism of Ideas

Science and religion have been polarized over the issue of consciousness since time immemorial. Science attributes this fundamental function of our species to tiny volts of...

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Health

Six Decades Ago, US Celebrated First Successful Polio Vaccine

Sixty years ago, at about the time you??e reading this, church bells began to ring across the United States. Cars honked their horns. Reporters rushed to phones, and people...

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Thought Factory

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...

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Thought Factory

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

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Thought Factory

Digging Deep: Our Affinity For Rituals

We build off the shoulders of our ancestors. As the shadow of our pastdances against the wall of time, every nuanced movement, every refraction, every proportion contains t...

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TV

TELEVISION’S CULTURE POTS

When German friends first visited Bombay, they were blown away by the multiple ethnic groups on the streets. They had just visited the Rajabai Clock Tower and seen statues ...

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Sustainable Development

Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter

University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from $36bn endowment Some of Harvard’s m...

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Duchess Of Cornwall Announced As President Of Women Of The World Festival

The Duchess of Cornwall has been announced as the President of Southbank Centre’s WOW – Women of the World Festival. The launch of WOW in 2011 and the opening o...

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