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Adolescent Health: The Missing Population in Universal Health Coverage

The Sustainable Development Goals and global political momentum behind Universal Health Coverage (UHC) offer significant opportunities to build collective global and national ...

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Dutch film 'Just Friends' is Opening Film at KASHISH MIQFF 2019, will close with Malayalam film 'Njan Marykutty'

160 films from 43 countries will be screened at South Asia's biggest LGBTQ film festival from June 12-16, 2019 in Mumbai 'Just Friends' a romantic comedy from Netherlands wi...

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KASHISH 2019 unveils Taiwan collaboration at LGBTQ film festival

Screening of Taiwanese films Taiwan! Let's Get Married! and Gentlemen Spa, talk by Taiwanese guest Jay Lin and tie-up with Taiwanese distribution company Days after Taiwan le...

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160 LGBTQ films from 43 countries to be screened at KASHISH MIQFF 2019

Delegate registrations have started for South Asia's biggest LGBTQ film festival to be held in Mumbai from June 12 - 16, 2019 Around 160 LGBTQ films from 43 countries will be...

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Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

Deepa Gahlot writes in her review of Jodi Picoult’s, A Spark of Life, “Women’s reproductive rights have always been under threat.” In The US, a fresh ...

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Why I will invest in the Congress! Rudresh Kaul

Rudresh Kaul writes, “I have always believed that learning and sharing go hand in hand.” At the outset let me make it clear, this isn’t a crowdfunding pitc...

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Flush Ke Baad

A campaign that makes a difference If left untreated, shit will hit the fan and come right back to you! Nearly 70 per cent of poop generated from urban India is untreated, a...

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KASHISH 2019 will crowdfund South Asia's biggest LGBTQ film festival

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will celebrate its 10th edition this year and for the seventh year in a row will raise funds through crowdfunding to organise ...

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Quest For Roots

Deepa Gahlot, author, film and theatre critic reviews the play, In Search of Dariya Saagar, an award winning play by Akshat Nigam and Gerish Khemani When there is talk of ref...

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Poems that celebrate the insect world that is facing extinction

Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She is a former editor of the poetry...

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FESTIVALS: QUEER STORIES ILLUMINATE NEW PATHWAYS

A reflection on queer filmmaking, festival curation, and representation at WIFF Mumbai 2...

November 22 2025

GENDER: LIVING ALONE, FINDING INNER STRENGTH

AkelaNest by Aparajita Krishna: A reflective, deeply personal exploration of single livi...

November 21 2025

TV: TRUTH RISES THROUGH THE DARKNESS

In this review by Monojit Lahiri, a relentless Bengali crime thriller unfolds with raw p...

November 20 2025