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Human Rights

Prince Charles's Bahrain Visit 'Backs Human Rights Abuses', Says Activist And Torture Survivor

A Bahraini human rights activist and torture survivor claims Prince Charles's visit to the Arab kingdom is being used to "whitewash" its record on civil liberties.
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Hollywood

Isabelle Huppert's 'Elle': The Provocative Rape-Revenge Film Earning Raves

The opening scenes of Elle, the latest provocation from Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, telegraph the birth of what might become a new kind of razor-edged woman’s story....

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Sustainable Development

The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

The EmDrive has been dismissed as “impossible” on more than one occasion because it appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for...

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TV

Shabana Azmi’s Tryst With Television

Zee TV’s late weekend nights’ offering Amma is a marked move away from reality shows, celebrity specials and other fluffy entert...

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Thought Factory

No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”&nb...

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Festivals

Dharamsala International Film Festival Comes To A Close With Tamil Film Visaranai

The fifth edition of the Dharamsala International Film Festival (DIFF) came to a close on 6 November. The four-day film festival was held in the mountain town of McLeod Gan...

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Alternative Entertainment

American-Indian Duo Bring Vintage Studio Photography To Life Through Hand Coloured Studio Photos

Photographer Waswo X Waswo and artist Rajesh Soni talk to The Better India about A Studio in Rajasthan – a hand coloured series of black and white photographs that pa...

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Health

Poverty, Not Race, Increases A Woman's Risk Of Unintended Pregnancy

Certain demographics are more likely to have unintended pregnancies than others, but while some reports point to racial differences among women who have unplanned pregnanci...

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Environment

We Can Save Elephants. But Can We Save Wild Elephants?

I have just returned from Kenya’s North Eastern Province where one night, camped out in a dry riverbed with just a mosquito net for cover, a herd of elephants emerged...

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Festivals

Women Directors Are Everywhere, But Film Festivals Are Still Catching Up — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspi...

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