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Human Rights

How Rural Women Are Challenging Gender-Based Exclusion From Land Ownership In India

A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownershi...

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Sustainable Development

A Solar-Powered Plane Has Completed The First Ever Trans-Atlantic Flight

Setting off from New York at 2:30 AM on June 20, 2016, pilot Bertrand Piccard spent a total of 71 hours and 8 minutes in the air, flying at 28,000 feet and covering a dista...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Struggle To Adapt Storytelling For Virtual Reality

Storytelling in virtual reality has yet to take shape. While the simulated world of gaming has proved the visual capabilities of the medium, few have taken a crack at the a...

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Hollywood

Stars Join Tigertime's 2016 Stars And Stripes Celebrity Art Auction

Sixteen celebrities from the world of sport, music, dance, design, art, stage and TV have come together to support the TigerTime campaign’s 2016 Stars & Stripes c...

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Trending

Where Private School Is Not A Privilege

In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send...

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Health

What Is Missing On The Global Health Front?

The last World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva (23-28 May) discussed the manifold global health crises that require urgent attention, and adopted resolutions to act on many...

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Human Rights

Widow Rituals Fuel Rituals In Africa: From Cleaning Corpses To Sex With Strangers

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After h...

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Environment

A River Comes To The People

Nanduwali In East Rajasthan Started Flowing Again When The Villagers Decided To Work With Nature And Not Against It. The River Is Now Lifeline To Those Settled On Her Banks...

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Festivals

A Film Festival In Honor Of Farmers

Farmers engage in food production and yet many experience hunger. This painful paradox is one of the themes the six official entries to the first TOFARM (The Outstanding Fa...

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Bollywood

Kunal Kapoor And Richa Chadha Are Teaming Up For A Cause

They may not have worked together in a film, but have now joined hands for a cause. Kunal Kapoor and Richa Chadha have decided to raise funds to build a shelter home for gi...

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