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The Ballet Boys Of Mumbai

Sooni Taraporevala’s first virtual reality film captures the journey of two boys from Mumbai’s chawls to a ballet school in the US We first see Manish Chauhan, ...

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Bollywood

Indian Cinema, At Home And In The World

For the 2nd edition of our monthly salon, Lounge Lounge—where we bring together thought leaders for a deep dive—we deliberate on India’s current status in...

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Hollywood

Scene By Scene, This Is What Makes The Babadook Such An LGBT Icon

When I first saw The Babadook, I wrote that the monster therein was, to my eyes at least, a metaphor for grief. What I apparently missed was that all that tapping and flapp...

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Trending

The UN Will Give You $15,000 To Help Address Climate Change

This is an opinion piece by Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. During an extraordinary year in Bern, Switzerland, a young German ...

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Gender

Rupi Kaur: I Was Sick Of Being Silent All The Time

Poet Rupi Kaur used Instagram to build a captive audience for her poetry about survival, womanhood, abuse, love and loss - with 1.3 million followers and counting. She expl...

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Health

What Stands In The Way Of Revolutionary Male Contraceptives? Men?

Birth control for men has barely progressed since the first vasectomy in 1899. The reason for that is a little bit of science and a lot of sexism.Tiny room no. 46 on the se...

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Human Rights

Toiling For A Toilet

On June 15, 2016, just off a train ride 1,000 miles south from a brick kiln in Punjab, Ramlal Baghel, along with his three sons and their wives, arrived home to their villa...

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Sustainable Development

Feminism Is Helping Women Recover From Substance Abuse

Every Wednesday for the past month, from 10:30am to 3:00pm, five women have been meeting in a training room behind St Leonard's Shoreditch Church, London, to discuss femini...

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Environment

The Fate Of 'America's First River' Is The Focus Of A New Film Series

Home to America's 'First River,' the Hudson region of New York has a well-earned reputation as the birthplace of the country's environmental movement. From the early Hudson...

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Festivals

Second Scout Film Festival Hits Stowe This Weekend

Those darned whippersnappers and their smartphones and television screens! Don’t they know that back in the day, we read books for entertainment! We went out and play...

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