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Sustainable Development

From Droughts TO Disease, 2015 Highlighted Our Food System's Shortcomings

2015 was a bit of a news roller-coaster when it came to the things we eat. We?ve made some progress over the year in some areas but struggled to cope in others as we faced ...

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Kaleidoscope

Eliza By Any Other Name

December 2015 marked the end of the year long birth centenary celebrations of pioneering theatre personality Begum Qudsia Zaidi. To her goes the credit for translating and ...

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Trending

Rewind 2015: Indian Ads That Made News This Year

The year 2015 had its fair share of popular and controversial ad campaigns. From brands like Kalyan Jewellers who were forced to pull down their creatives after facing onli...

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Hollywood

Joy,’ ‘OITNB’ Star Dascha Polanco On Female Empowerment In Hollywood

“I want you to smell me.” It’s not your typical conversation starter, sure, but Dascha Polanco— a star of both the Netflix series Orange Is the New ...

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Gender

Gender Fluidity Went Pop In 2015 – And It’s Not Just A Phase

First things first: don’t call it a trend. Gender fluidity found its way into more headlines than ever in 2015. But regardless of the moment it’s having in both...

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Festivals

Undefined Sets New Record At Plateau Film Festival

A 2014 Lebanese short film, Undefined, has set a new festival record at the fifth Plateau International Film Festival, winning three of the ten awards: Festival Best Direct...

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Hollywood

The Female Force Awakens as Star Wars Has Four Strong Women Roles

The Bechdel Test is a far from perfect measurement of the accuracy and integrity of gender portrayal, as Alison Bechdel herself has admitted, but it’s one that has fi...

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Health

Mumbai: 'No Gynaecs In Rural Areas To Provide Basic Delivery Services'

Mumbai: An audit carried out by the state government of all maternal deaths, including those during medical termination of pregnancy (MTPs), have found three main causes be...

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Sustainable Development

Could A Big Cosmic Mystery Be Caused By Asteroids Slamming Into Dead Stars?

Since 2010, radio astronomers have been contending with a mystery: a handful of very intense, very short lived signals have been detected, and disappeared just as quickly. ...

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Gender

“Feminized Poverty”: Poverty A Woman’s Face?

Poverty has different connotations depending upon the circumstances under which we construe it. One such connotation is gender based poverty or feminized poverty. Feminizat...

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