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Sundance 2017 Announces Competition and NEXT Lineups, Including Returning Favorites and Major Contenders

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival may still be a few weeks away from kicking off in snowy Park City, Utah, but the annual festival has begun rolling out its various lineups, ...

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Bollywood

Bollywood taking baby steps towards philanthropy

In July, Warren Buffett, the chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, donated about $2.2 billion (around Rs.14,674 crore) of stock in his annual gift to ...

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Health

India’s Immunization Coverage is Abysmal

India fares very poorly in comparison to other countries as far as expenditure and coverage for vaccinating it’s population goes. This, according to a recent white pa...

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Human Rights

Tribal Women from Odisha’s Kashipur Block Are Standing up against Exploitation – One Broom at a Time

Salpai Majhi, a proud and confident tribal woman leader, has a wonderful story to tell, “Since ages, we have depended on the forest to run our homes.We have been coll...

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Sustainable Development

Weaving A Story Of Change

C. Sivagurunathan has spent all his life listening to the sound of the loom. “My parents would take turns and weave on a handloom that occupied much of our one-room h...

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Festivals

DOC NYC 2016: 13 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at the Festival

New York City’s annual DOC NYC festival kicks off this week, including a full-to-bursting slate of some of this year’s most remarkable documentaries. If you&rsq...

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Gender

Speaking Out On Sexism And Violence Through Hip-Hop

UN: Young women are beginning to find their voices around issues such as sexism and violence, including through hip-hop, an art form which has a long tradition of fighting ...

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Human Rights

‘Inclusivity, key for rights of the disabled’

On Saturday evening, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences was unusually crowded. A number of students, disabled people, activists and civil rights supporters were troopin...

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Sustainable Development

Bipedal Robots Are Better at Walking Sideways

Humans legs are a complex marvel of evolution. Our pelvis and hip joints allow for some incredible, energy efficient bipedal movement roboticists find hard to replicate. Su...

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Alternative Entertainment

Three Pink Floyd Songs Played On The Korean Gayageum: Comfortably Numb, Another Brick In The Wall, Great Gig In The Sky

If you come visit South Korea, where I live, you’ll more than likely pass through Incheon International Airport, and there quite possibly witness a variety of display...

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