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Health

India Is Facing A Mental Health Crisis – And Its Education System Is Ill Equipped To Handle It

The taboo surrounding mental health problems and the unwillingness of most colleges to take up the cost of professional counselling make India’s youth highly vulnerab...

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Gender

A Feminist History Of Women's Tattoos

Since the election, Jess Koala, a tattoo artist at Black + Blue in San Francisco, has seen an uptick in the number of clients looking to get feminist tattoos. She’s i...

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Human Rights

Resurgence Of Religion: Not Despite Modernisation But Because Of It

In his 1967 book, The Sacred Canopy, sociologist Peter Berger, famously argued that religion would decline and become redundant as the world modernised. Three decades later...

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Environment

The "Chamgadars" Of Devbhoomi

Chamgadarh? Woh toh yahan nahi hote (Bats? You don’t find them here),” a villager said matter-of-factly. His friend added, on a more scientific note, “Yah...

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TV

A Definitive Historical

In School we were taught that Shivaji thwarted the attacks of the mighty armies of the Mughals with his guerrilla warfare tactics. Thanks to a Jesuit History Professor, he ...

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Alternative Entertainment

The History Of All Girls Band & The Rock World Which Rejected Them

It was 1964 and singer Genyusha “Goldie” Zelkowitz had a problem. The all-girl band she formed in 1962 with drummer Ginger Bianco, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, ...

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Gender

Woman Who Debated With Buddha

Neelakesi proved that anybody can be a rishi, irrespective of birth A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a fascinating character, who serves as the focal point for a now lo...

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Alternative Entertainment

How One Creature Haunts Our Thoughts

A newly-christened species of giant spider was unveiled this week. Kelly Grovier looks at why these creepy-crawlies have long crouched in the dark corners of our imaginatio...

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Festivals

True To Its 102-Years-Old History, Maryland Festival Debuts A Renovated Parkway Theatre

Wiping away 102 years' worth of dirt, wear, crumbling plaster and the shards of misuse from the Parkway theater was never going to be easy. And to the credit of those runni...

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Alternative Entertainment

Kameela Rashid: Who Will Survie In America?

The visual artist on “the stutter” in history, strategic opacity, and Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. rhaps, while strolling down the sidewalks of N...

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