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Growing appetite for cafes with a cause in India
December 28, 2020
These cafés not only serve delicious food, but also seek to stir up one’s conscience. These have been focal points to create awareness, support social causes and fight social stigma.
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Utopian aura of Auroville
December 26, 2020
Nestled in the Viluppuram district in Tamil Nadu, with some parts in the union territory of Puducherry, Auroville, also called the City of Dawn is a place that anyone with idealistic leanings will find compelling. “It’s an international community dedicated to peace, sustaina...
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The healing power of art
December 24, 2020
“Art is an outlet for expression and creativity, just like crying is for grief,” Sumedha Kaul, a psychologist and an art therapist, based in Delhi, tells Media India Group. “Creating art is not a skill. It is an essential part of being a human. You don’t have to possess a...
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Dehradun is drowning in its own waste
December 24, 2020
Moreover, over 50 tonnes of waste remains uncollected every day and keeps on piling up on the streets and open lands across the entire district. Years of this neglect has led to a situation where it is apparent that the entire Doon valley is crumbling under the pressure of an inc...
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Bid farewell to farcical Farmers Day
December 23, 2020
For a Prime Minister who is apparently never short of the right word to say in any situation, Narendra Modi has yet to find something appropriate to assuage the millions of Indian farmers who have been protesting against the ‘ground-breaking’ agricultural reforms that his gov...
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Bollywood 2020: Pandemic, lives lost & the rise of OTT
December 22, 2020
“Compared to the cataclysmic events of 2020, happenings in Bollywood read like trivial crumbs. Yet, 2020 has been equally harsh on the entertainment world,” a Delhi-based film critic, Anupam Kant, tells Media India Group. Kant talks about how the year started on a promising n...
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Educational institutes pledge for carbon neutrality
December 21, 2020
To mark the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and in an effort to boost the global commitment to slow down global warming and arrest climate change, Climate Ambition Summit was hosted by United Nations, UK and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy....
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Martyrdom Day observed to honour farmers killed during farm protest
December 21, 2020
“The farmers who have sacrificed their lives as part of the ongoing protests have set an example for thousands of others. Instead of breaking our morale or creating fear or worry in our minds about the future, it has reinforced our belief in our fight and that the fight is just...
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Indian diaspora to help Biden create the ‘New America’
December 21, 2020
After weeks of efforts by US President Donald Trump to overturn the result, the electoral college last week affirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 American election. With that, the focus is set to shift to the incoming team nominated by Biden to help run a country that h...
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‘Shaming terrible tool for teaching’
December 18, 2020
Last week Kerala State Child Rights Commission ruled that humiliating or publicly rebuking a child is a gross violation of child rights and should be treated as an offence. The commission further said the police should register a case, if needed, against the perpetrators when suc...
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Google & Facebook face anti-trust heat across globe
December 17, 2020
Few had imagined the scenario even five years ago, but the seemingly invincible Big Tech firms Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are all facing the heat of competition authorities across the globe as government regulators finally wake up to the threats to a fair and free market ...
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Glorious Gwalior- A peek into the regal past
December 17, 2020
Despite its proximity to Taj Mahal’s home Agra and having plenty of historically significant places that have survived the test of time; Gwalior remains off the regular traveller’s list. Encircling the majestic hillfort in the centre of the city, Gwalior is a small town about...
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