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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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Dr Lakshmi Lingam: A Person with long years of Experience in Public Policy Advocacy Work in Women’s Movements in India

“The mobile phone is a revolutionary artefact of our times: it represents a great potential for reshaping social relations and enhancing personal growth,” says Dr ...

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It Happened One Night

Noir thrillers had their own visual glamour—smoky bars, shadowy streets, men in trench coats and Fedoras, femmes fatale, damsels in distress and an innocent caught in a ...

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Ambubasi Mela: A Festival that Celebrates Fertility and Rejuvenation

Guwahati’s Kamakhya Temple organizes the Ambubasi Mela (also pronounced as Ambubachi Mela) which is a four-day annual fair. Legend has it that an angered goddess Shakti ...

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The Lives of People who stood up for the #MeToo Movement

The Harvey Weinstein scandal was probably the biggest news of 2017. We are aware of what happened to the accused men involved in the scandal. But the courageous people whose h...

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Lights Still On: Portrait of a 70-year-old Photo Studio where once Bollywood’s Legendary Stars Shone Bright

 The incalculable number of photographs – running into crores – of vintage Hindi cinema’s charismatic actors and film classics have vanished into thin a...

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The King: An Exceptional Documentary on Elvis Presley and the American Dream

Eugene Jarecki doesn’t do small stories. The documentary director calls himself “a big-game hunter”, confidently tackling the sort of big abstract concepts a...

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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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POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND OUR SILENCE

A searing reflection on the Epstein revelations and what they expose about unchecked pow...

February 14 2026

AMITABH BACHCHAN: HINDI CINEMA’S DARK EDGE

The Greatest villain that Hindi films could not have…though one is not complainin...

February 13 2026

ROMANCE ZINDABAD OR DRAMABAZI KI JAY

Monojit Lahiri checks out the real drama behind this momentous day and checks out all th...

February 12 2026