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Gender

Kerala Is Making History Once Again by Starting India’s First Transgender School

After becoming the first Indian state to adopt a transgender policy, Kerala is all set to write history yet again by starting India’s first transgender residential schoo...

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Health

Neighbors Treating Neighbors For Depression And Alcoholism

It's a problem around the world: People who need mental health care don't get it. A new kind of treatment strategy in India — delivered by nonprofessionals — offer...

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Human Rights

This Human Rights Activist Is Disrupting India’s Sexual Health Education With A Unique Online Platform

Where do you go for advice on matters that are considered taboo? Topics such as love, sex, and relationships are best kept away from public forums, unless you want a thousand ...

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Sustainable Development

200,000 Years Of Staggering Human Population Shown On Animated Map

Last night, during a talk on his new book Raising the Floor, longtime labor leader and current senior fellow at Columbia University Andy Stern told the story of a king and a c...

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Environment

Dancing For A Cause: Kiribati’s Climate Activist Olympic Weight Lifter

Few casual observers would recall the winner of the men’s 105kg weightlifting category at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Many, though, will remember the athlete wi...

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Festivals

Pune International Film Festival Includes Solapur, Nagpur For The First Time

The 15th edition of Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) to be held from January 12-19 has included Nagpur and Solapur this year as its 'satellite cities'. More than 200 mo...

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Alternative Entertainment

How To Be A Storyteller: 5 Questions Social Change Makers Needs To Ask

Regardless of your political leanings, it’s clear that this election cycle was defined by stories—driven by strong characters and rooted in conflicting narratives....

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Bollywood

Emraan Hashmi: Stop Thinking Of Cancer As Dead End

Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi urged people to stop thinking of cancer as a dead end in their life because the disease can be cured or treated to get a better life if diagnosed...

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Hollywood

Dollywood Foundation Receives $50,000 From Verizon To Aid Tennessee Wildfire Relief Efforts

Verizon last week announced a $50,000 grant to support the wildfire relief efforts in Sevier County, Tenn. In partnership with the Dollywood Foundation, the donation will offe...

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Trending

Can Television Be Fair To Muslims?

FOR the Nuxalbari Estate in the lush hills of India’s north-east, relief came in the nick of time. With winter pruning of its tea plantations at hand, 600 workers were t...

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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

PARALLEL LIVES BETWEEN THEATRE & CORPORATE WORLDS

In this candid conversation, interviewer Vinta Nanda speaks with Prakash Vaswani about t...

February 11 2026

OH CALCUTTA: MEMORIES OF A VANISHING CITY

Khalid Mohamed remembers the ‘City of Joy’, a mahanagar steadily losing heri...

February 10 2026