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Kolkata Is Churning Out Short Filmmakers, But Where Is It All Leading To?

A survey reveals diverse styles, motives and views on the future of the scene. Over the past ten years or so, there has been a surge in the number of short films being made...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Star Anil Kapoor Aims To Spotlight Suffering Of India's Child Workers

Bollywood star Anil Kapoor on Friday kick-started a campaign to highlight the plight of millions of children in India who are forced into work, adding that he hoped his cel...

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Hollywood

Gloria Steinem Looks At Gender-Based Violence In El Salvador

Gloria Steinem, in a new episode of the Viceland TV series “WOMAN” to be broadcast on 14 June (10pm ET/9pm CT), takes an unflinching look at gender-based violen...

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Trending

I&B Ministry Proposal Can Benefit Indian Filmmakers

Sometime ago, the Information & Broadcasting Ministry, in a bid to make India a film-friendly destination, came up with a proposal to fund Indian films representing the...

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Health

Over 2,500 Indian Kids Suffer From Brain Tumour Every Year

With a surge in the brain related ailments in the world, every year over 2,500 of the Indian children suffer from medulloblastoma, a pediatric malignant primary brain tumou...

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Human Rights

Activists Oppose Child ‘Help’ In Family Enterprises

Argue that proposed amendments to Act will only enable legalising child labour Amidst efforts by the Union Labour Ministry to bring in certain amendments to the Child Labou...

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Festivals

Edinburgh Film Festival Waves Flag For Scottish Cinema's Independence

With gala showings dedicated to whisky and golf movies, and strong Scots connections throughout, there’s a buzz about Scotland’s film industry – despite s...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Kiddie Party

As summer vacations draw to a close, the marvellous season of children’s plays also comes to a halt. Very few groups who work on children’s theatre during the s...

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Health

India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the sou...

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Human Rights

Discrimination Runs Deep In India: It's Time To Accept It

It was accepting that enslaving another human being is callous that led to the abolishment of the Atlantic slave trade. But it took nearly four centuries to get there. It w...

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