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A Scooter-Riding Bookseller Has Served Kolkatta Better Than Amazon Could Ever Hope To

From Vir Sanghvi to Aveek Sarkar, everyone is a fan of Tarun Kumar Shaw’s unique personal book home delivery service. If a book has been printed, and is in circulatio...

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Festivals

'Sarvann' To Be Screened At The New York International Film Festival

Priyanka Chopra's first Punjabi production 'Sarvann' has been selected for screening at the New York International Film Festival (NYIFF) starting from April 30, and its tea...

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Sustainable Development

What Do We Want the Future to Be?

Sometime in late June of 2011, I sat down at a Thai restaurant in Williamsburg with then-deputy editor Sean Yeaton. I'd been badgering him for months over email to give me ...

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Bollywood

Taapsee Extends Support To Women-Run Cafe In Mangalore

For actor Taapsee Pannu, the Pink (2016) effect is clearly, still on. Despite six months having gone by since the film’s release, Taapsee still gets messages and emai...

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Gender

A 16-Year-Old Tribal Girl From MP Is Going To An Oxford School To Learn English

16-year-old Asha Gond is a tribal girl from a little known village called Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. When she swings by on her skateboard, you’d be hard pressed to re...

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Human Rights

Maharashtra: Mobile App Chirag Launched To Report Child Abuse

Registering a complaint on the app will send an email to the Maharashtra State Child Rights Protection Commission, which will direct it to police or a child-rights charity....

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Sustainable Development

A New Type Of Dune Has Been Found On Mars

Led by Caltech planetary geologist Mathieu Lapôtre, the new research confirmed the existence of this third type of “bedform,” the term for sedimentary str...

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Sustainable Development

Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time To Upgrade Our Method Of Verifying Identity

On Monday, a Facebook user lost control of his personal account, as well as several business pages, for almost a full day, after a hacker was able to convince Facebook to c...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Best Drone Cinema In The World

From the New York Drone Festival comes a montage of the best drone cinema in the world. Put drones in the hands of 32 filmmakers, and here’s what they can deliver. Pr...

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Sustainable Development

Space-Grown Mouse Embryos Are a Step Toward Human Colonization

Chinese scientists are creeping a tiny bit closer to the future dream of humans colonizing and reproducing in space.
They’ve succeeded, reports the Chinese ...

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