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Here’s Why The Biggest Slum In India Is Honoring A Fictional Rape Victim

Ram Devineni has been thinking a lot lately about shakti — a word that translates loosely from the Sanskrit to “female power.” It’s a transformative...

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TV

PERFORMANCES NEED RECOGNITION

If one?s watching a serial minutely, what one can?t overlook are those finely nuanced gestures from an actor. Sure credit does go to the director, and the actor merits it t...

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Festivals

Cannes Film Review: ‘Masaan’

A ‘Promising Future’ prize in Cannes should help this narratively challenged drama of two families trapped in the strictures of India’s rigid caste system...

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Festivals

Jane Fonda In Cannes: Let’s Make Sure We Represent Women 51 Percent In Movies

“Women see things differently,” the actress says. “We just do” Actress Jane Fonda offered words of encouragement about evening the gender scales in ...

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Hollywood

Jane Fonda In Cannes: Let’s Make Sure We Represent Women 51 Percent In Movies

“Women see things differently,” the actress says. “We just do” Actress Jane Fonda offered words of encouragement about evening the gender scales in ...

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Sustainable Development

Entering The Mind Of My Rapist: An Exercise In Extreme Empathy

The essential dilemma after a date rape is also the essential dilemma before the novelist: Who’s in charge of the narrative, and what is his or her perspective? My ra...

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Festivals

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Cemetary of Splendour’ At Cannes Film Festival

Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of a woman’s tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her when she volunteers to help soldier...

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TV

MILESTONES, MAHA EPISODES AND TWISTS

Code Red?s 100 episode milestone is worth taking note of. Pitched against the 10 pm to 11 pm saas-bahu sagas, the channel stuck its ground and kept it going. While any othe...

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Thought Factory

Abstract Property: Imperialism of Ideas

Science and religion have been polarized over the issue of consciousness since time immemorial. Science attributes this fundamental function of our species to tiny volts of...

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Top 5

The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

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