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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

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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Environment

Receding Glacier Causes Immense Canadian River To Vanish In Four Days

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustr...

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Alternative Entertainment

National Micro Drama Festival Thespis Sets The Right Stage For Theater Lovers

A series of 25 micro drama tales highlighting socially relevant and sensitive issues ranging from the plight of Kashmiri pandits following the exodus to urban loneliness to...

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TV

MTV: Bold, Sensitive

In 1995, Ashish Balram Nagpal, an art connoisseur, made a film called Adha Adhura which was way too progressive. In the film, Ashish Balram Nagpal, a billionaire businessma...

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Festivals

Phoenix Film Festival 2017

There are so many reasons to love the Phoenix Film Festival: the diverse selection of films, the inclusion of Arizona directors, and the fact that you can see absolutely ev...

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Alternative Entertainment

Stories Of Everyday Life

Seasoned director Surendra Sharma’s latest venture “Maila Aanchal”, presented by Rang Saptak, Delhi was staged at Bharat Rang Mahotsav sometime back, is y...

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Kaleidoscope

Obese Indian Wedding

Bharat Dabholkar’s Blame It On Yashraj, had its hundredth recently—making it one of the most successful English plays in recent times. This Ashvin Gidwani produ...

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Sustainable Development

We Are Living In The Age Of The Reusable Rocket

What you're looking at above is the first stage of a rocket that's been to space twice. For the first time, SpaceX has reused one of its Falcon 9 rockets, this time to deli...

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Gender

How Did a DD Show On Sex Education Become India’s Most Watched Television Programme?

The show uses the form of a highly charged soap, complete with dramatic music and cliff-hangers, to impart lessons on spacing between pregnancies, contraceptives, puberty, ...

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