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A Look At Hollywood's Female On-Screen Superheroes

Hollywood doesn’t have the greatest track record when it comes to female superhero features. However, we take a look at some fierce and vindictive crime-fighters who ...

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Festivals

New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master

It’s been not quite 30 years since a group of young Hong Kong-based moviemakers, now in or near their 60s, reinvented the gangster film, infusing the motifs of the Am...

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Trending

Angelina Jolie’s Powerful Speech On What Women Really Need From Men

Angelina Jolie Pitt gave a powerful speech on June 11 at the biannual African Union Summit, using her star power to draw attention to women’s rights across the globe....

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Festivals

Gale Anne Hurd & Nina Jacobson Talk Diversity & “White Male Apple Cart” On Women Producers Panel At LA Film Fest

“You have to represent people of color, women and diversity not only in front of the camera but behind it too,” said Gale Anne Hurd today, on how to fix Hollywo...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Top 5

Tech Trek: Themes of Technological Influence in Cinema

Like the ever-present air, we live and breathe technology. Despite our excessive dependence on the array of media at our disposal, we take our options for granted. Neverthe...

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Sustainable Development

India, A Victim Of E-Waste Crime

Much of the 40 million tonnes of electronic waste produced around the world — old smartphones, TVs, laptops and obsolete kitchen appliances — finds its way ille...

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Gender

“‘Dowry Calculator’ Is A New Way Of Looking At An Old Problem”: Aditya Save, Chief Marketing Officer, Shaadi.Com

Dowry, the deeply ingrained social evil, is often associated with arranged marriages. The regressive tradition has been spoken of in abundance, but occurrences of crime aga...

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Bollywood

‘Women Cannot Be Looked Upon As Inferior’ – Amitabh Bachchan

As crimes against women continue to escalate by the day, superstar Amitabh Bachchan, while talking on the subject, expressed his anguish. He feels the offenders of such cri...

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Sustainable Development

Why The Children Of The Poor Must Not Be Allowed To Work In Family Enterprises

The shocking decision of the Union Cabinet to legalise child work after school hours in family enterprises must compel us to turn an unflinching spotlight on one of our gra...

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