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Ranaut Let There Be Art: Petition Seeks Freedom To Sketch India's Monuments

Early last year, a group of around 20 people gathered at the ancient monolithic temples of Mammallapuram just outside Chennai. Armed with drawing pads, pencils and little e...

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Human Rights

Safai Karamcharis To Appeal To PM Modi For Eradication Of Manual Scavenging

Next month, a day before Modi visits the birthplace of BabasahebAmbedkar to mark the latter's 125th birth anniversary, a large group of Dalits and safaikaramcharis seeking ...

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Documentary / Shorts

Jai Bhim Comrade (Excerpt - Kabir Kala Manch) by Anand Patwardhan.mov

Sheetal Sathe of the Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) sings "Majhi Mai (My Mother)" in Anand Patwardhan's documentary "Jai Bhim Comrade". Sheetal and fellow artistes of the KKM who m...

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Health

Minimizing Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure For India's Poor

The recent adoption of Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations endorsed an earlier agreement on a resolution passed on Dec. 12, 2012, which emphasizes all membe...

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Hollywood

Human Rights Campaign Announces Honorees For 2016 La Gala Dinner

On Saturday, March 19, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, will honor critical...

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Gender

India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination

New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact unless deeply entre...

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Sustainable Development

Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"

Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the new...

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Environment

A Long Walk For Water

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and A...

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Gender

Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at...

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Environment

The All-Female Patrol Stopping South Africa's Rhino Poachers

The Black Mambas are winning the war on poaching,” insists SiphiweSithole. “We have absolutely zero tolerance for rhino poaching and the illegal wildlife trade....

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