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Caught In The Crossfire

The wanton killings never seem to stop. A bomb attack recently on refugees inside their own homeland in Syria led to the ghastly deaths of 68 children in Aleppo. There were...

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Gender

Staying Home With Your Kids Does Not Make You Anti-Feminist

I was at a dinner party recently where a woman accused me of being anti-feminist. I was really taken aback; I’m a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent gui...

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Human Rights

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Presses For Enforcement Of Juvenile Justice Act

Nobel Peace Prize winner and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has said that there is a very strong provision under Juvenile Justice Act in the country to stop childr...

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Sustainable Development

Matt Damon: Children Are Drinking Water So Dirty, It Looks Like Chocolate Milk

Jetlagged after a flight from Australia, Matt Damon is wearing a smart dark suit with a crisp white shirt as he sits at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington. He...

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Trending

More Antartic Protections Urged On #WorldPenguinDay

The world needs to do more to protect the Antarctic wilderness and its wildlife, scientists warned Tuesday, as they marked World Penguin Day. The flightless seabirds -- a f...

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Health

World’s First Malaria Vaccine Will Be Tested In Kenya, Ghana And Malawi

The world’s first malaria vaccine will be tested on people from three African countries—Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. On April 24, the World Health Organization anno...

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Alternative Entertainment

Ghachar Chochar: Vivek Shanbags Book Review

The novel written by Shanbhag, who has been compared to Chekhov, is the first of his works to translated into English Think of great Indian novels since Salman Rushdie set ...

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Kaleidoscope

A Forgotten Chapter

The caste system is still a contentious issue in most of India; in Maharashtra the Brahmin-Dalit problems persist, years after the flaring up of the anti-Brahmin movement f...

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Human Rights

Commission Wants Aadhar Cards For Disabled Children

The Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR), on Monday, directed the chief secretary to make Aadhar cards for all the mentally challenged, deaf ...

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Human Rights

One Step Forward, Two Back – India’s Uneven Progress In Correcting Gender Imbalance

India’s sex ratio at birth – or the number of girl children born for every 1,000 boys born – has improved slightly over the last 10 years. But there are n...

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