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Environment

With Crops Withering, Whither Delta Farmer?

For farmers of the delta region of Tamil Nadu, the biggest festival of the year is naturally the harvest festival — Pongal. For each farmer, it is like a wedding in the ...

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Festivals

OUR FAVORITE FILMS FROM THE 2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Sundance this year was filled with virtual reality, protest marches, and days and days (and days) of snow. But when you go to a film festival you also watch a lot of films, an...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Beginners Guide To Fantastic Beasts And The Films That Embraced Them

Recently, I broke a long-standing self-imposed rule of not watching any promotional materials or reading anything about a film until I’ve seen the completed film, when I...

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Bollywood

Twinkle Khanna Lends Support To Educate Slum Kids

Actress-turned-author and interior designer Twinkle Khanna has come forward to support education for slum children here."Today when I came here I saw the children performing a...

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Hollywood

Hasty Pudding Theatricals Announces Octavia Spencer As 2017 Woman Of The Year

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, announces Oscar winning actress, Octavia Spencer as the recipient of its 2017 Woman of ...

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Kaleidoscope

Love & War

Martin Cruz Smith is best known for his series of thriller featuring a fiercely upright Russian detective, Arkady Renko. The first book in the series was Gorky Park (1981), se...

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Trending

Television, A Truely Great And A Truely Horrible Parent

It’s one of the hoariest premises in fiction. A person, decidedly unfit to raise and care for children, is put in charge of younglings with indisposed parents. It is the...

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Gender

Girls Start Doubting Their Own Brilliance As Young As 6, Researchers Say

Young girls are less likely to think they’re “really, really smart” compared to their male counterparts as early as the age of 6, according to a new study re...

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Health

YouTube Videos On Contraceptive Implants Mostly Accurate, Mostly Positive

The internet is not necessarily a bad place to find information about long-term birth control implants, a study suggests. Young women looking online for information about thes...

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Human Rights

Give Us Back Our River

One part of the Ennore creek, covered with a layer of black mass, lies still like a corpse. Another channel of dark water, the Buckingham Canal, which carries petroleum efflue...

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PRIDE, IDENTITY, COURAGE, FREEDOM, REPEAT

In this Pride Month conversation, Vinta Nanda speaks with Salim Asgarally about identity...

June 19 2026

WHY MOTHERS ECLIPSE FATHERS DAILY

Monojit Lahiri explores why Mother’s Day commands greater emotional resonance than...

June 18 2026

HINDI CINEMA: UNDER HOLLYWOOD’S HAT

Khalid Mohamed recalls the impact (and copycatting) of Hollywood cinema and its gossip j...

June 17 2026