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Health

Need To Take Emergency Contraception? Check With Your Doctor First

When Kripa* decided to start using contraceptives five months ago, she turned to Google to figure out which one to buy. “I didn’t want to go to a gynaecologist ...

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India Bans Import Of Exotic Furs & Crocodile Skin – Animal Rights Activists Are Thrilled!

The Indian government may be under fire for things aplenty, but they’re also on fire when it comes to putting down the law for the protection of animals and, especial...

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Gender

How An Indian Innovator Reverse-Engineered The Making Of Sanitary Pads

Arunachalam Muruganantham had seen the mysterious bloodstained rags before, left discreetly in a corner of his family’s thatched outdoor bathroom. As a teenager growi...

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Retroscope

Renaming Places And Roads!!!

The practice of renaming is often a political gimmick. Or it may be some individual politician’s fetish to grab mileage. The familiar ritual has existed for year...

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Human Rights

Women Farmers In Northern India Battle Tradition, Self-Doubt To Own Land

Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. But s...

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Kaleidoscope

Screen To Stage

Sometimes all it takes is a dream. Feroz Abbas Khan wanted to do a play based on the K. Asif classic Mughal-e-Azam for years. Finally the universe conspired and the product...

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Human Rights

Corruption, Caste Keep Poor From Owning Land In Northern India

For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - w...

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Environment

Mining For Smartphone Metals Could Kill Rare And Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures

Last March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association exploration vessel Okeanos made a remarkable discovery while surveying the deep sea floor off of Hawaii. In the...

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Sustainable Development

This Tool Maps The Spread Of Fake News Online

Fake news, sensationalized media and blatant lies disguised as journalism have, unfortunately become major themes this year. Facebook’s finally stepping up to stop th...

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Kaleidoscope

Criss-crossing Families

Seven books in the Clifton Chronicles, and the story could still go on. Only a master storyteller like Jeffrey Archer could have woven such an intricate plot about family d...

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