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Gender

Davos 2016: It's Time To Talk About Gender Inequality

“I think every woman in this room has the same question. What’s the hold-up?” asks Bloomberg Television anchor Stephanie Ruhle, as she looks at two male C...

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Sustainable Development

A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying For The Right To Repair Everything

Repair groups from across the industry announced that they have formed The RepairCoalition, a lobbying and advocacy group that will focus on reforming the Digital Millenniu...

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Festivals

Manipuri Documentary Phum Shang Wins Top Prize At Mumbai International Film Festival

Manipuri documentary film Phum Shang won the Golden Conch Award for the Best Documentary Film (upto 60 minutes) at the 14th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documenta...

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TV

LOOK, BHABHO’S IN A GHAGHRA CHOLI

By and large, the ‘powers that be for television’ have created a grid for how women should be portrayed in soaps. Placed in a box with a uniform dress code, it ...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - A Li'l Bit Of Kindness

Intolerance is the word of the season-- all over the world, people are losing their patience, compassion and that sense of community that makes life worthwhile. What does a...

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Retroscope

Rediscovering Hidden Treasures : Hirak Rajar Deshe

The most renowned Indian film maker internationally, doubtless, is Satyajit Ray. His advent with the iconic debut, PatherPanchali (The Song of the Road) heralded an outstan...

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Sustainable Development

Instead Of Killing Mosquitoes, Why Don’t We Edit The Viruses Out Of Them?

In the fight against zika—the mosquito-spread virus recently declared an international public health emergency due to its potential link with a brain deformity in inf...

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Environment

The Environmental Protection Agency Says Fracking Is Safe — But Its Scientific Advisors Disagree

Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known ...

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Human Rights

What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty

IF social scientists and policy makers have learned anything about how to help the world’s poorest people, it’s not to trust our intuitions or anecdotal evidenc...

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Independent

Rush Hour Producer Arthur Sarkissian Is Making A Movie About Elderly Jewel Thieves

One of the hardest things about getting old, other than all of your friends dying and the lack of good Hollywood roles, is the way that people assume you can’t really...

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