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Health

Empty Promises And Dead Children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celeb...

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Human Rights

Policy Shame: Sick, Rare And Ignored

Rare diseases are a diverse set of over 7,000 different conditions that afflict an estimated 1 in 20 Indians and 350 million people worldwide. Put simply, it means that eve...

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Human Rights

Energy New Report Indicates Scale Of India’s Exclusion From Progress

Up to 43% of women in the working age (about 153 million) in India only do domestic work, indicating the scale of their exclusion from the workforce.

* A quarte...

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Gender

Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Environment

Designing A World Where Environmentalists Win

“Captain Planet! He’s our hero…”
If you’re a millennial, you can probably fill in the rest. While the green-mulleted eco-hero didn&rsquo...

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TV

True Review Television - Watch TV’s Bestest Shows On Monday

It’s that time of the year, when television has to be at its bestest. Next week, two   focal events will take centre stage on Indian television channels. On...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Stereotyping

What has impacted on our lives - in our daily relationships- most is stereotyping .Women, more than men, are hurt and trivialised by stereotyping. There is always a tendenc...

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TV

True Review Television - Finally, A Robot Bahu

Is it a coincidence or are channels and content providers really taking a hard look at stories about women and their emancipation. Star Plus’ Tamanna deals with a wom...

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Health

High Rate Of Maternal Mortality, C-Section Cause For Concern

Even after achieving an enviable position in primary health care, the State continues to have a high maternal mortality rate (MMR). With 250 mothers dying in child birth ag...

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