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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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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Glimpses Of Kabul

Western women who do not have to live under oppressive conditions in strictly patriarchal countries like Afghanistan tend to romantisize the country's beauty and the nobili...

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TV

True Review Television - Balika Vadhu: Change Of The Guard

Generation leaps are the flavours on Prime Time. Coincidentally, both shows which have taken the leap are Colors’ top line shows – Balika Vadhu and Chakravartin...

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Gender

The Silence That Still Surrounds Periods

Let’s begin with the obvious: Every woman in the history of humanity has, or has had, a period. Each month, her uterus sheds its lining, sending blood flowing out thr...

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Health

An Epileptics Cinematic Journey: Films From My Perspective

As the title indicates, I have epilepsy. If you ran into me on the street, it’s not something you’d be able to tell about me by looking. That’s not how ep...

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Sustainable Development

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles Offer Super-Efficient, Portable Water Desalination

Solar desalination is a tantalizing cure-all to Earth's fresh-water woes. After all, this is where fresh water comes from naturally as part of the planet's water cycle&mdas...

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Alternative Entertainment

Download The Complete Archive Of 'Oz', "The Most Controversial Magazine Of The 60's"

“If you remember the sixties,” goes the famous and variously attributed quotation, “you weren’t really there.” And, psychological after-effect...

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Health

One Third Of India Is Depressed: Time We Start Talking About It

Among the many problems an average Indian has to navigate through the course of her life, depression is depicted as a made up problem of the leisured class. While WHO estim...

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2016 College Women Of The Year: Suhani Jalota

In India, where I grew up, menstruation is considered impure, and even saying the word period is taboo. It's hard to imagine. I wanted to chip away at that stigma, but how ...

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Human Rights

These Kids Are Saving Others From A Life Of Child Slavery

In Assam, India, 12-year-old Sahidul Ali returned from school with a big grin on his face and headed straight to the office of Universal Team for Social Action and Help(UTS...

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