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The Khabar Lahariya Story

Watch the story of a grassroots media revolution. Khabar Lahariya is local language weekly brought out entirely by women from marginalised communities in their own language...

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Documentary / Shorts

Global Health in Lights: Hollywood, Health & Society in Washington, D.C. - Part 1

Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of the Norman Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society program, moderated this discussion which brought top TV producers, writers...

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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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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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Gender

Haryana Bride Sets New Example For Gender Equality, Rides Mare To Her Wedding

In a historic first, in a Haryana village, Mamta, a 25-year-old teacher, broke the stereotype and performed the Ghudchadi by riding a mare on her wedding. The ritual is usu...

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Human Rights

Do Children Have A Right To Be Loved?

Surely every child on Earth should be loved. That seems obvious. But is that a human right? Many international declarations adopt this view. The 1989 Declaration on the Rig...

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Thought Factory

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

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Gender

Women In India Are Now Legally Allowed To Be Head Of Their Households

India is slowly giving women the recognition they deserve.The Delhi high court ruled that the eldest female member of a family can now act as the legal head of household, a...

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Eye Think

Flowing With Rashmi: An Interview With The Director Of The FLO Film Festival

Rashmi Lamba is the Festival Director at the FLO Film Festival, a festival geared towards the empowerment of women. The festival explores positive portrayals of women and g...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Theatre Of Tolerance

As the sensitive Aligarh about the persecution of a gay professor releases, the positive response to it shows that ordinary people are getting over their prejudice...

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