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How Stories Configure Human Nature

It is in our nature to need stories. We arrive “biologically prepared” for them. They were evolutionarily crucial. We feel and think in story-logic (story-causa...

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Festivals

Word On The Street: 2017 Oxford Film Festival

Assistant Lifestyles Editor Devna Bose visited the 2017 Oxford Film Festival and asked festival-goers about what they were most looking forward to, their favorite part of t...

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Festivals

Documentary Film Festival Showcases Myriad Human Lives

With themes ranging from caste and culture, the cries of disgruntled Maruti workers to the lives of literary giants, the fifth Chennai Short Film and Documentary festival p...

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Alternative Entertainment

This Initiative Is Helping Rural Artisans Create Masterpieces By Collaborating With Modern Artists

India has a rich tradition of folk art that has been woven into the daily lives of many. Creating beautiful paintings on the mud walls or singing songs on a festive occasio...

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Human Rights

Equality’s Time Has Come

To understand the vehement opposition to 33 per cent women’s reservation in urban local bodies (ULBs) in Nagaland by male-dominated/all-male Naga tribal bodies, it is...

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Hollywood

Angelina Jolie: Refugee Policy Should Be Based On Facts, Not Fear

Refugees are men, women and children caught in the fury of war, or the cross hairs of persecution. Far from being terrorists, they are often the victims of terrorism themse...

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Human Rights

A Lesson For Bollywood: How Regional Films Are Tackling Land Rights, Championing Farmers

A villainous company. Corrupt government officials. A heroic defender of farmers emerging victorious from a fight over land. This is far from a typical storyline for Indian...

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Human Rights

Tripura: Reang Refugee Kids Don’t Know National Anthem, Stun Child Rights Panel

This Republic Day, Tripura rolled out its tableau featuring Hojagiri, a Reang tribal dance, to depict the vibrancy of its culture, but thousands of kilometres away in the n...

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Festivals

North East Film Festival Gets Underway In Pune

Information and Broadcasting Ministry Secretary Ajay Mittal today said North East Film Festival (NEFF) ‘Fragrances from the North East’ is an unique window to f...

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Lunch With The FT: Bill Gates

I am sitting on a bar stool. On the other side of a round metal table, the world’s second richest man is sipping a Diet Coke, eating french fries with his fingers and...

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