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‘The Trials Of Spring’ Documentary Project Amplifies Voices Of Women In The Arab Spring

A new multimedia documentary project is spotlighting the vital roles of women in the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. “The Trials of Spring”, is a series of six shor...

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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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Bollywood

No Khan Here: A Female Star Is Leading Bollywood’s First Rs 100 Crore Film This Year

Kangana Ranaut isn’t a big fan of the Rs 100 crore ($16 million) club—a so-called benchmark of success reserved for Bollywood films that have a net earning of R...

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TV

Note These Shows, Please

When scriptwriters and producers think out of the box and rope in actors to support their fresh thinking, one can see the emergence of shows which could make viewers sit up...

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Movies

50 Shades of May

May was on to an encouraging start with Gabbar Is Back, which kicked up a storm at the box office. Theanti-corruption background in films has a way of gett...

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Health

Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hos...

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Gender

Books About Women Don’t Win Major Fiction Prizes. How Can We Change That?

Man, woman, cyborg — no matter what kind of writer you are, if you want to win a major literary award, there’s just one thing you have to do: Make sure your mai...

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Bollywood

IIFA 2015: Deepika Padukone Wins Woman Of The Year Award!

So IIFA Awards are happening in Malaysia right now and currently the most powerful woman in Bollywood has just been conferred upon with a very important title,Woman of the ...

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Festivals

11 highlights of SIFF 2015’s final weekend

On SIFF’s final weekend, highlights include a screening of the once-presumed-lost 1916 silent film “Sherlock Holmes” (starring William Gillette, who playe...

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Sania Mirza Supports PETA Campaign For Homeless Animals

Ace tennis star Sania Mirza has lent her support to the cause of animal welfare by promoting the adoption of homeless dogs and cats in a new ad campaign for People for the ...

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