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Home and Heart

Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, the thought that passes through the mind is: there but for the grace of god goes any middle-class family, when a...

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Alternative Entertainment

Bomba Estéreo: A Colombian band that performs to make a Difference

The Grammy nominated Columbian band ‘Bomba Estéreo’ stands out for the way they combine elements of nature and folkloric rhythms that takes after their cult...

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Health

The Himalayan Superwomen: Midwives of Pakistan act as Life-savers

In Pakistan, for every 100,000 babies born, some 260 women die during childbirth. The country is one of 11 countries that comprised 65 per cent of global maternal deaths ...

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Bollywood

2019 to be a year of Period Blockbusters

This year, Bollywood goes back in time with a series of historic films set to be released. We have Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, scheduled to be released late January, fol...

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Gender

A Record 102 Women create history after being sworn into the US Congress

A record of 102 women elected to US Congress made history on Thursday. The new congresspeople who took the oath of office in the US House of Representatives included the first...

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Environment

Underwater Robots to set right the damaged Great Barrier Reef

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which houses a range of diverse species, are struggling to survive due to the scorching heat and rapid increment in temperatures. Global ...

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Ballygunge 1990, a romantic thriller to be performed in Hindi for the first time in Mumbai

India’s leading theatre group The Films and Theatre Society is all set to launch the play “Ballygunge 1990- Love is an endless mystery”, a suspense thriller ...

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Sustainable Development

Slow and Sustainable Fashion

Clothes shopping used to be an occasional event. It happened just a couple of times in a year. But few years ago, clothes became cheaper, trend changed and the people looked f...

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Women form 380-mile Human Chain to demonstrate support for Gender Equality

Protests caused because of having allowed two women inside the Sabarimala temple have gone unruly in Kerala, where groups of angry traditionalists have been waving black flags...

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Human Rights

UNICEF: “Children living through conflict are hardly guaranteed their Rights.”

UNICEF said the future of millions of children living in Nigeria and other countries affected by armed conflict were at risk, as warring parties continued to commit grave viol...

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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