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Nostalgia Versus Evolution

“Man it was better back in the day” or “Oh you guys have no idea what it used to be like” are smug statements that everyone has heard at some place ...

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Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

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Former Viacom Exec Lead USC Initative

Todd Cunningham has been named Director of the Media Impact Project, an interdisciplinary team of skilled researchers and data specialists at the Norman Lear Center of the ...

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UCLA Launches Global Media Center For Social Impact

The Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA has established an innovative new center to
increase awareness of important health issues and improve the well-being of pe...

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The Lunchbox

The film Lunchbox deals with the lives of lonely people living in the crowded metropolis of Mumbai. An error made by the meticulous tiffin deliver...

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John Day Review

There has emerged a relatively new breed of cinema lately, the corruption thriller. Veering away from the highly dramatized and sensationalized, which is the bread and butt...

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Palestine: Halt Execution of Gaza Child Offender

Hani Abu Aliyan, imprisoned in Gaza’s central prison, faces execution.

Imposing the death penalty for a crime committed by a child makes the executions un...

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Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

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Courting' controversy

India has been witnessing a rising trend of judicial intervention and directives in cases involving a face-off between large institutional project...

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Annual Report: India 2013

Republic of India

Head of state Pranab Kumar Mukherjee(replaced Pratibha Patil)

Head of government Manmohan Singh

Torture and other ill-treatment, e...

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