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Alternative Entertainment

Signs of the times: Come October

Humra  Quraishi remembers classical singer Begum Akhtar, also known as Akhtari Bai and we...

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Bollywood

Signs of the times

Humra Quraishi rewinds to 1995; when she met the first ambassador of Uzbekistan to India, Surat Mirkasymov, and remembers how ...

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Kaleidoscope

On Manto’s 108th birth anniversary

“The more I sit thinking of Manto’s genius, I recall  my  meeting his grandnephew Abid Hasan Minto, in  New Delhi&rd...

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Human Rights

Will Life ever return to Normal for these Families displaced by War in Yemen?

Yemen is the world’s single largest humanitarian crisis. Hunger is constant. The besieged port city of Hodeida in Yemen has bec...

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Gender

Pakistan Stands Up for Transgender Rights

Transgenders are a diverse community, representing all racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as faith backgrou...

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Gender

Transgender Community hopes for a brighter future in 2018

The transgender community is incredibly diverse. Some transgender people identify as male or female, and some identity as genderqueer, non-b...

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Trending

In The Netherlands, Empty Prisons Become Homes For Refugees

In an interesting take on reusing and recycling, a government agency in the Netherlands has opened empty prisons to accommodate the influx of migrants seeking asylum. As th...

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Thought Factory

Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

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Hollywood

Elton John And Michael Stipe Write About Plight Of Transgender Inmates In Prison

Last month, Elton John and musician, activist, and Elton John AIDS Foundation ally Michael Stipe, published an op-ed in the The Guardian about the horrific conditions faced...

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Health

Key High-Risk HIV Groups Threaten AIDS Progress, Warns The WHO

Five key groups, including gay men, prostitutes and prisoners, have stubbornly high rates of HIV that are threatening progress in the global AIDS battle, the World Health O...

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