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Gender

Gender Equality: Facts Or Alternative Facts

The question posed above is a disturbing one and it refers to gender parity. So, what better day to breach the subject than on Mother’s Day! Only a few months ago, on...

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Sustainable Development

How Public Health Workers Are Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls In Rural Bihar

“Whose help can I ask? If I talk to another woman in the village, she can’t help. She faces the same thing at her home. I haven’t told anyone that he abus...

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Health

Cancer Ravages Health As Well As Personal Resources In India

"You have cancer."
These terrifying words resonate in the ears of someone diagnosed with the dreaded disease. And for their family, the first thoughts are about the af...

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Human Rights

Reliving The Summer Of Love

California’s summer calendar is packed with events commemorating 50 years of the hippie revolution of 1967 I am in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood,...

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Bollywood

People Are Squeamish About Female Sexuality: Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar doesn’t beat around the bush or dress up her words. And her video last month with Taapsee Pannu, which addressed the issue of how much cleavage is good ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Why I Wrote A Play About William Wordsworth

I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It opens at The Theatre by the Lake, in Kesw...

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Health

The Ambitious Mental Healthcare Bill Is A Step Closer To A Progressive India

Breaking away from ‘institutionalised care’, India on March 27, 2017 took a progressive step towards implementing a rights-based approach to safeguarding and pr...

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Trending

Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', It Isn't: Documentary Reveals The Brutal Reality Of Manual Scavenging

Divya Bharathi’s powerful documentary Kakkoos (Toilet), about the prevalence of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu, is very difficult to watch – imagine what it is...

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Trending

From London To Coimbatore – How One Woman Is Educating Orphans And Changing Their Lives

Muthailan and Muthuvel’s alcoholic father abandoned his family, leaving them with no financial support. The single mother turned to prostitution to feed her children....

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Bollywood

Women Empowerment Will Make Sense When All Women Get Equal Opportunities: Sharmila Tagore

For veteran Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore, celebration of ‘women empowerment’ or simply saying that today women are no less than men would make more sense whe...

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