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Bollywood

Why Kangana Ranaut Is The New Poster Girl For Indian Women

She may be hated for her honest, blunt opinions on matters. She may be envied for the kind of films that are offered to her, but there is no denying that KanganaRanaut is t...

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Health

Labeling The Danger In Soda

How many teaspoons of sugar do you think are in a 16-ounce bottle of Coke?
a) 3
b) 6
c) 9
d) 12
The answer is 12. A 16-ounce Snapple Kiwi Strawberr...

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Sustainable Development

On Paper Electrified Villages; In Reality, Darkness

Haldu Khata, a village in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 7,008 villages that the government claims to have “electrified” in the last year, unde...

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Human Rights

On The Margins In A City Of Dreams

A week after a fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, fires in smaller pockets continue to blaze. But toxic smoke is only an addition to a long list of prob...

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Sustainable Development

The Recycling Reflex

What if there were something that could create 1.5 million new jobs, reduce carbon emissions equal to taking 50 million cars off the road, cut dependence on foreign oil, in...

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Alternative Entertainment

Love In The Times Of Short Stories

I never cared much for Delhi until I read Ravish Kumar’s short Hindi love stories. My old bias — perhaps from too much Premchand, and not enough ChetanBhagat &m...

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Human Rights

Child Rights Commission Not In Favour Of Amendment

Expressing reservation over the Union government’s proposed amendments to the Child Labour Act to allow children aged less than 14 to work in non-hazardous places suc...

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Sustainable Development

Keeping The Water Flowing In Rural Villages

Keeping projects in business for the long term has been a constant theme of the Fixes column, and if sustainability has a poster child, it would be a water pump.   Tra...

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Gender

Letting India's Women Own Land

This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s m...

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Sustainable Development

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

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