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Hollywood

The Asset: Hollywood's Sexiest Monster

Who doesn’t like a good monster movie? Shots of buildings being decimated, people running for their lives, cars being flung like toys and military weapons being reduced ...

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Saudi eases Strict rules on Gender Separation

Saudi Arabia, under domestic and international pressure to grant women sporting rights, is creating separate stadium sections so that female spectators and journalists can at...

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Festivals

Festivals to Watch Out for in the New Year

New year, new films, new film festivals. While 2017 wasn't the best year in films we hope to see better films in 2018. With so much information continually on tap, thanks to s...

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Hollywood

Mary Jane Blige’s Time to Bounce Back

Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, model, record producer and actress. Starting her career as a backing singer on Uptown Records in 1989, Blige release...

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Sustainable Development

Indian Households with Mobile Phone exceeds Households with Toilets

According to an article in LiveMint, data has been released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) which has once again underlined the abysmal state of sanitation in the ...

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Film Festival on the Changing Narrative in Hindi Cinema

The First Edition of “India and the World: The Changing Narrative”, a Film Festival was held at the CSMVS (Prince of Wales Museum) from the 12th to 14th of January...

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Gender

Has Justice for Women in India Improved?

In 1890, a case of a Bengali child bride named Phulmani, who died following brutal conjugal intercourse went to trial in the Calcutta Sessions Court. It was argued that the in...

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Health

The Sorry State of the Government Healthcare

At least 60 children died over five days at a government hospital in UP's Gorakhpur district due to oxygen shortages at the hospital. This was a very shocking incident that ha...

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Environment

Western Painted Turtles face Extinction due to Global Warming

A trio of Iowa State University researchers has predicted, in a paper published in The American Naturalist, that the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) faces extinction over the...

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Bollywood

In Honour of Fearless Nadia

The year was late 1930s. The world saw the emerging of fictional superheroes and cinema was entering the fantasy world. The names of the caped crusaders who emerged in this er...

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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

BOLLYWOOD: LOVE, AGE, CHAOS, REPEAT

A witty, uneven yet engaging romantic comedy, De De Pyaar De 2 explores age-gap love wit...

November 19 2025