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Thought Factory

Spare a thought for Lakhs of Unemployed Single-screen Cinema Workers of Bollywood City

As many as two lakh cinema workers - ushers, projectionists, ticket counter clerks, especially – have been rendered unemployed in the las...

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Human Rights

Agricultural Workers are the World’s Hungriest, says UN Expert

“Agricultural workers are among the worlds most hungry and are largely excluded from national legal protective frameworks”, the UN ...

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Business and Politics

Need for a New Social Contract to Guard the Rising Inequality

Mankind has always been afraid of where its talent for innovation might lead. John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 of widespread unemployment ari...

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Bollywood

Rajnikanth’s Kaala: the Real behind the Reel

Filmmaker Pa Ranjith, who has teamed up for the second time with superstar Rajinikanth in the hit gangster dram...

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Gender

Working Mom? Feel Guilty No More!

While many believe the ‘ideal situation’ for young children is one where their mother doesn’t...

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Kaleidoscope

Power Of The Printed Word

Poster, by Dr. Shankar Shesh, a social satire about the exploitation of tribals, remains relevant nearly forty years after it was written, and is a great favourite...

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Kaleidoscope

By The Sea

Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel, on her Pulitzer. Experimental in form, the book had thirteen chapters from different points of view a...

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Bollywood

A Win Against the Wage Gap

Deepika Padukone recently crossed another milestone by bagging a heavier pay cheque than her male co-actors. Padukone, who plays the titular character in director Sanjay Le...

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Human Rights

Gender equality at Workplace - more than just a moral Issue

Apart from the “human rights” aspect to gender equality at work, recent studies also suggest there being a beneficial financial and economic advantage by having...

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Environment

Free Bicycles Reducing Pollution In India & China

Innovative bicycle schemes in China and India are tackling chronic air pollution problems and congestion by encouraging people to stop using cars. In China everyone used to...

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