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Women Set To Dominate At London Indian Film Festival 2015

From the tale of a persecuted rights activist hounded from her home to Shabnam Sukhdev’s moving study of her father, this year’s programme foregrounds work by a...

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Gender

Over 70,000 Transgenders In Rural India: Survey

Rural India has over 70,000 transgenders, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with nearly 13,000, and West Bengal home to around 10,000, reveals the Socio Economic and Cast...

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Delhi Bids Farewell To 6th Jagran Film Festival

Film celebrities Divya Dutta, Piyush Mishra, Gulshan Grover, Saurabh Shukla and Kunal Kapoor and Sriram Raghavan graced the closing da...

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Gender

Tagore’s Stories Have A Strange Sense Of Gender Equality: Anurag Basu

Anurag Basu on adapting Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and the genre-defying format of his next film, Jagga Jasoos. Filmmaker Anurag Basu talks about adapting Rabindra...

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Day 3 At 6th Jagran Film Festival Spreads The ‘Happiness’ Vibe

Day 3 presented an enviable mix of retrospective films, special screenings, shorts, top shorts, master classes and lots more!

Paid homage to director R...

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Day 2 At 6th Jagran Film Festival Offers A Film Feast

~ Showcases outstanding films including Gone with the Wind, The Mud Woman andSaransh among others ~

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Gender

Entrepreneurship Helps Delay Child Marriage In India, Empower Young Women

Impoverished girls in India who are at high risk of child marriage are gaining independence and generating income with the help of a Seattle-based non-profit. Landesa Rural...

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Aditya Vikram’s Award-Winning Debut Feature, ‘Labour Of Love’, Which Won The European Critics Award For The Best Debut Film At The Venice Film Festival And Two National Awards Is Releasing In India On June 26

Mumbai, June 9, 2015: Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s critically acclaimed debut film, “Labour of Love” (Asha Jaoar Majhe), which premiered at the Venice Interna...

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Health

Spurt in HIV Positive Cases Rings Alarm Bells in Bengal

West Bengal is fast becoming a high-risk HIV positive state. According to statistics for the last two years available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West B...

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Gender

India Gets Its First Transgender College Principal

India, probably the world, will get its first transgender college principal when Manabi Bandopadhyay takes charge of Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal on June...

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