Priorities

Women Fight For Access To Sacred Places In India.

This week, an estimated 500 women traveled by bus toward a temple in the Indian state of Maharashtra with the intent of storming its sacred altar ? where females have been bar...

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21 Leaders 2016 – Meet Three Powerhouses Who Get the Word Out

While waiting at a Calcutta hospital in 1985, MallikaDutt noticed something strange about the women's unit: it was full of burn victims. Dutt, who grew up in India and was a r...

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Breastfeeding Could Prevent 800,000 Child Deaths, Lancet Says

If almost every mother breastfed her children it could prevent more than 800,000 child deaths a year, yet governments are failing to promote and support breastfeeding, with ra...

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Why 2016 Is The Year To Shake Up Humanitarian Funding

Some say the system to fund the humanitarian response to conflicts and disasters is broken beyond repair. Some say it just needs a tweak. But everyone agrees, global humanitar...

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The End of Big Data

Personal data is anything but personal. Our phones and televisions listen in on us; the most powerful corporations in the world trade in consumer tics, browsing histories, and...

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Why Snakes' Biggest Defenders Are In Favor Of Killing Them

So when I learned that some of them are currently gearing up for an event that’s seemingly organized around killing snakes, I was intrigued. The 2016 Python Challenge, w...

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Breastfeeding Could Prevent 800,000 Child Deaths, Lancet Says

If almost every mother breastfed her children it could prevent more than 800,000 child deaths a year, yet governments are failing to promote and support breastfeeding, with ra...

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21 Leaders 2016 - Meet Three Powerhouses Who Test Healthcare.

Something inside Schell Carpenter clicked as she witnessed Texas Senator Wendy Davis' 2013 filibuster of an omnibus anti-choice bill that threatened to reduce the number of ab...

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Not-So-Bitter Pill

Oral contraceptive use not associated with increased birth defects risk. Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects, a...

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Is This The Generation That Eradicates Extreme Poverty?

The year 2015 was a once in a generation event for the world’s citizens and for the planet. In one year, a new blueprint was created to tackle the world’s thornies...

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CINEMA THAT BREATHES IN STILLNESS

An evocative evening of French and German short films in Mumbai explores stillness, abst...

March 29 2026

A TIMELY DIALOGUE AT IFFD 2026

A powerful panel at IFFD 2026 brings together leading independent filmmakers to examine ...

March 28 2026

BHARATMATA BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE!

Bharatmata cinema hall returns to Mumbai’s Lalbaug, writes Avinash Kolhe, reviving...

March 27 2026