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Gender

If You Can See It, You Can Be It

‘If you see it, you can be it’ could have been the unofficial slogan of the International Development Cooperation meeting on Gender and Media, where I was invit...

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Health

Affordable Vaccines To Check Infections Need Of The Hour

Prof. K.R. Sethuraman, Vice Chancellor, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, has called upon medical professional bodies to lobby for cheaper and affordable vaccines to check relatively ...

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Health

Women's Rights Must Be A Major Part OF Any Climate Deal

This Human Rights Day is particularly significant. In Paris, negotiators are trying to come to agreement on a global climate treaty, and a lot is on the line -- especially ...

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Kaleidoscope

Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into anoth...

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Gender

Woe Of The Girl Child

Director Madhureeta Anand’s Kajarya belongs in the horror genre. Not horror of the make-believe, fantasy kind but horror rooted in the reality of the times....

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Gender

How Far Have Women's Rights Advanced In The Past 20 Years?

Extreme poverty won’t end until gender inequality ends. That’s the unavoidable reality. The continued oppression of women around the world generates t...

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Kaleidoscope

Bond Forever

As the latest James Bond film, Spectre become a global hit, and rakes 31.9 crores on opening weekend in India, despite the ‘kiss’ controversy, the one criticism...

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Gender

What Governments Need To Do To Ensure Justice For Girls Everywhere

Sexual violence against girls is a global phenomenon. For many, their childhood and teenage years are particularly difficult, with abuses such as ‘child marriage&lsqu...

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Hollywood

Barbie's Moschino Ad Features A Fierce Little Boy For The First Time.

A Barbie designed by Moschino is fierce, but a little boy with a faux-hawk and a penchant for glittery purses playing with the doll has stolen the show in Mattel’s la...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - A Veritable Carnival

The 19th edition of CFSI’s festival turned out to be a veritable carnival, a feast of colourful sights and sounds.
Had I not gone, I would have missed the robust...

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