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Health

Simple Compassion for the Dying: Lessons from Palliative Care Providers

Dr. M. R. Rajagopal, a leading advocate of palliative care, known as India’s “Father of Palliative Care” runs a Pallium India clinic in the capital of Kerala...

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Powerful People

Experiments with Storytelling: Meet Anuraadha Tewari

In a freewheeling conversation, Anuraadha Tewari, screenwriter of films like Rahul, Fashion, Jail and Heroine, tells Vinta Nanda about all that has gone on in her life between...

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TV

Alexa & Katie: Humour, Hopes and Teen Hijinks

How we wish Disney never kiboshed dishing out our zany, colourful teen shows that happily painted the stories of an exuberant iconoclastic generation- the Gen Z-  somewha...

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Bollywood

Celebrities who said "No" and stood up for their Beliefs

A celebrity, be it an actor or a sportsperson, is a role model for many youngsters. Celebrities earn obscene amounts of money for doing mainstream Bollywood films as well as f...

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Environment

Climate Change may displace more than 140 Million People

The world is in trouble. For years, scientists have carefully accumulated data that confirms what we hoped wasn’t true: The greenhouse gas emissions that have steadily s...

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Kaleidoscope

No Country For Ghettos

The horrors of racism just never cease. A few days ago, a 22-year-old black man was shot to death in his own backyard, when cops supposedly mistook his cell phone for a gun. ...

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Human Rights

Growing Refugee Crisis resulting in Trafficking and Slavery

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi believes that the refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern slavery. A global action is needed to tackle the criminal gangs ...

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Trending

The Case of a Prehistoric Shark Tooth gone Missing

Authorities have been left puzzled after a giant shark tooth that's more than two million years old has been snatched from a park in Australia. The tooth is from a megalodon,...

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Festivals

The Best of an Entertainment-Packed SXSW 2018

South by Southwest is one hell of a week you wouldn't want to miss. Think of the annual music conference and festival as one big starting point for the year in music. Artists ...

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Hollywood

Ava DuVernayn gives Hope in a Time of Superhero Fatigue

Let's just first accept the fact that Marvel is way better than DC when it comes to movies. Just because the Marvel Comics brand had served as a box-office rubber stamp for n...

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LAST WEEK’S ARTS, CINEMA AND CULTURE PULSE

From Berlinale’s politically charged opening to India’s expanding global pre...

February 16 2026

INTERGENERATIONAL CINEMA COURAGE CREATIVE DIALOGUE

At the Self-Discovery: Rediscovering India Festival 2026, led by Neville Tuli, emerging ...

February 15 2026

POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND OUR SILENCE

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

February 14 2026