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A Nepalese Superstition that is costing Women their Lives

In the first week of January 2018, Gauri Bayak, 23, Nepalese by nationality, was sleeping in a hut during her menstrual period. She was found dead the next morning by her neig...

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The SDG Report Card 2018: A Reality Check

It is indeed true that the World Bank is one of the world’s largest producers of development data and research. Following the World Report 2018, World Bank has released ...

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‘Would-be’ Child Brides become Child Warriors to fight their Community

A 14-year-old young girl, Rajni, from Uttar Pradesh was in the middle of her eighth-grade exams when she found out her parents planned to get her married. She had never met th...

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Adidas and Parsley Run for the Oceans by turning Ocean Plastic into Shoes

Let's dig into some figures. Studies tell us that there’s roughly 80,000 tons of plastic polluting the Pacific Ocean. That’s an area roughly three times the size o...

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Single Women form the Largest of Women Workforce

I read in an article on The Hindu that despite high growth rate during the economic reform period, five economists of the World Bank have found that women’s ability to a...

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A Look at India’s National Health Profile 2018

On June 19, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda released the National Health Profile (NHP)-2018 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)....

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Making Nature’s Biological Assets Visible And Valuable

There is a two-way fluid and potentially infinite interaction and innovation frontier between Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and Nature’s biological and biomi...

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World Report 2018: A Call to Action more essential than A Cry of Despair

The Human Rights Watch publishes an annual World Report in which the human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective. Reflecting ex...

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France builds an Alzheimer’s Village for Patients to Live Comfortably

I read in an article on CNN that there is no test that doctors can use to conclusively determine whether someone will get Alzheimer's disease. "If you are in your 20s or 30s a...

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An Encyclopaedia of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Although male and female students take philosophy undergraduate courses in almost equal numbers, the number of women who pursue a career in philosophy is much lower. The Guard...

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THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026

MAHOGATHA REVIVES MAHASHWETA DEVI’S LEGACY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahogatha, a powerful Hindi theatrical adaptation of three...

May 11 2026

DAADI KI SHADI REVIEW ANALYSIS

Arnab Banerjee reviews Daadi Ki Shadi, examining its progressive premise, hesitant story...

May 10 2026