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Resurgence Of Religion: Not Despite Modernisation But Because Of It

In his 1967 book, The Sacred Canopy, sociologist Peter Berger, famously argued that religion would decline and become redundant as the world modernised. Three decades later, e...

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Let's Be Crystal Clear: Public Water Needs To Be Protected

This is an opinion piece from Jon Bowermaster, the founder of Oceans 8 Films and One Ocean Media Foundation. Sizable and necessary attention has been paid in recent years to ...

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In Disposable Mucus Houses, These Zooplankton Filter The Ocean

Swimming hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface in many parts of the world are prolific architects called giant larvaceans. These zooplankton are not particularly ...

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London's Drag Kings Challenge The Everyday Performance Of Gender

"Pecs" is a group of performers exploring gender and sexuality through drag. "Unless you fuck in a vacuum, sex is a gendered experience," says Pecs, a London-based drag king t...

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Cancer Ravages Health As Well As Personal Resources In India

"You have cancer."These terrifying words resonate in the ears of someone diagnosed with the dreaded disease. And for their family, the first thoughts are about the affordabili...

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Oblivious Of Names Of Partners, Newly Married Child Couples Seek Blessings

RAJGARH/BHOPAL: It’s exhaustingly hot at the hill-top temple in Rajgarh on April-end afternoon of Akshay Tritiya Day. Watching her steps from under a long veil of heavil...

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Stephen Hawkins Predicts How Many Days Earth Has Left

Stephen Hawking is at it again, filling our hearts with optimistic predictions about humanity’s boundless potential. Just kidding. His latest estimation gives us about 1...

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Why Living Around Nature Can Make You Live Longer

Living closer to nature is better for your health, new research suggests — and may even extend your life. A study just published in the journal Environmental Health Pers...

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Forced To Move Out Of Home During Their Periods

The landscape of Nepal is a geographical staircase, descending from snow-capped Himalayan mountains, through steep middle hills, to the lush flat plains of the south. This is ...

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How Technology Boosts Transparency And Outcomes In Public Health In India

Over the past few years, digital technologies have revolutionised the tools used to seek information, communicate, prevent and treat diseases by increasing reach, participatio...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by th...

November 4 2025

TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER

In its first edition, Surabhi Diaries by Suhail Tatari revisits the beloved 1990s TV phe...

November 2 2025

KALEIDOSCOPE: THROUGH CONFLICT, TRUTHS STAND TALL

My own encounter with the book has been a unique reader-experience, writes Aparajita Kri...

November 1 2025