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Festivals

Here Comes The Science Bit: Why Music Festivals Are Going Geek

Festivals have long been cosmic experiences – havens of music and hedonism designed to whisk you away from reality for 72 hours. Of course, those mind-melting moments...

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Bollywood

Prabhas Is The Poster Boy Of Women Rights In Baahubali 2, Here’s Why I Say So

I was appalled when I saw the Baahubali: The Beginning’s scene where Prabhas strips Tamannaah and then drapes her in what he thinks suits her more (read: Stereotyping...

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Health

India Is Facing A Mental Health Crisis – And Its Education System Is Ill Equipped To Handle It

The taboo surrounding mental health problems and the unwillingness of most colleges to take up the cost of professional counselling make India’s youth highly vulnerab...

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Bollywood

Ramesh Sippy Steps In To Train TV's GenNext

Indian television has, for long, suffered from a shortage of writers who could pen down the 1,000 or so episodes that Hindi GEC dramas demand. Of course, efforts are being ...

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Human Rights

All The Single Women

Women are marrying later, marriages are breaking up faster and we now have the largest population of single women in the history of our country At the seminar organized by ...

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Health

50 Years Ago This Week: How Birth Control Changed Everything

The subject of this week's cover story cost, as TIME noted, just 11 cents to make per unit—but, in the less than a decade of its existence, it had already "changed an...

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Sustainable Development

We Are Living In The Age Of The Reusable Rocket

What you're looking at above is the first stage of a rocket that's been to space twice. For the first time, SpaceX has reused one of its Falcon 9 rockets, this time to deli...

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Festivals

'Sarvann' To Be Screened At The New York International Film Festival

Priyanka Chopra's first Punjabi production 'Sarvann' has been selected for screening at the New York International Film Festival (NYIFF) starting from April 30, and its tea...

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Thought Factory

It's 2017! Why Do Women Still Need To Fight For Their Rights

It’s 2017! And just last week I was reading about how the Indian censor board of film certification has refused to certify a women empowerment film “Lipstick un...

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TV

Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several v...

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