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Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

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Festivals

Mexico's Morelia Film Festival Builds Warm Community of Cinephiles

Glowing reports from the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
(FICM) inspired me to fly down to Michoacan in late October for the
13th edition. I was not dis...

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Hollywood

Why Catherine Hardwicke Started to Fight Back Against Hollywood Sexism.

Catherine Hardwicke recently stormed the red carpet of her latest indie, “Miss You Already,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. With her male publicist c...

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Gender

Are Quotas The Way To Get Women To The Top?

As a young, ambitious British lawyer, Cherie Blair was firmly against imposing quotas to help advance women’s careers but 30 years later she is happy to admit she was...

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Gender

India May Lose Rs 46 Lakh Crore Due To Gender Inequality: McKinsey

Discrimination against women is not new in India; it’s an historical phenomenon. You will be surprised to know that for the same amount of work, women are paid 62% le...

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Hollywood

Geena Davis: Kudos To Jennifer Lawrence, But Women In Hollywood Have A Long Way To Go.

The Oscar-winning actress, who runs the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, writes about how women’s representation in Hollywood has remained static since 1946....

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Trending

New Kind Of 'Designer' Immune Cells Clear Baby's Leukemia

A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukemia in the first human use of an “off-the-shelf” cell therapy ...

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Gender

Overcoming Culture: Can India Eliminate Gender Violence?

Just over a month ago on September 25th, the 193 member countries of the United Nations voted on and approved the new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the hop...

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Health

Five Majors Announce Project ĀSMĀN To Reduce Maternal And Newborn Mortality In India

Project ĀSMĀN, a major healthcare initiative aimed at reducing infant, neonatal and maternal mortality in India, was launched on November 3, 2015 by a consortium of leadi...

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Gender

India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’

India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against...

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