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Alternative Entertainment

Setting The Stage: 12 Little Known Traditional Folk Theatre Forms Of India

A fusion of music, dance, drama, stylized speech, and spectacle, folk theatre is a composite art form with deep roots in local identity and native culture. An important ind...

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Environment

What If Nature, Like Corporations, Had The Rights Of A Person?

In recent years, the US supreme court has solidified the concept of corporate personhood. Following rulings in such cases as Hobby Lobb...

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Human Rights

Why Women’s Empowerment Must Start With Land Rights

Property and citizenship are in many ways what define us, and they interact in fascinating ways.
To understand how property ownership strengthens people’s abilit...

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Alternative Entertainment

The United Nations Is Turning VR Into A Tool For Social Change

Virtual reality is lauded as an empathy generator. The ability to transport viewers to a setting that would otherwise be inaccessible, or even unfathomable, lends a sense o...

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Sustainable Development

Maharashtra Approves Rs 40.50 Crore Programme Of Distribution Of Soil Health Card

Summary: For the year 2016-17, the Centre and the state to spend over Rs 40.50 crore to distribute the soil health cards. "The Soil Health Card will empower the farmers wit...

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Alternative Entertainment

Theatre Will Shrink, Like Cinema Viewing Has: Naseeruddin Shah

Last weekend, veterans Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah (right) — as Mrs Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw, respectively — staged the play, Dear Li...

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Festivals

African Film Festival In Texas Bridges Cultures

There was a lot of glamour, music and humor at the first-ever African Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, July 1-3. But for filmmakers it was a serious opportunity to show thei...

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Environment

Global Fish Production Approaching Sustainable Limit, UN Warns

Around 90% of the world’s stocks are now fully or overfished and production is set to increase further by 2025, according to report from UN’s food body Global f...

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Human Rights

Rape On Stage: Hard To Stomach But Its Depiction Might Help Society To Wake Up To Rape Culture

“He lifted me off the floor, pulled up my knickers. He spent some time rearranging me I remember. He smoothed my hair back off my face. Be our little secret, baby Lea...

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Four Video Essays Explain The Mastery Of Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Rip)

With each film he made, the internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami left critics grasping for superlatives, and his death this past Monday has challeng...

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