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Dismantling the barriers of hate Reflecting on the Wagah border ceremony, Ghazala Akbar wonders if it isn't time for a new script?	Shaadi and all that jazz Sharija Menon has some advice for all the singletons out there: hang in there!
My Gurgaon...I swear I care The blue glass facades of the towers and malls of our Millennium Cities can’t quite hide the ugly bits of our global cities, says Kalyani Menon-Sen	Not many women like cricket A young British woman reflects on attitudes towards women cricket fans and what is still a man's game...

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Justice Before Reconciliation

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Sociologist and writer Prof Dipankar Gupta talks about Gujarat 10 years after the 2002 riots, and states that there is absolutely no evidence that the Muslim victims of violence have been influenced by fundamentalists

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Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

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Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke is part two of his trilogy on Opium, the narcotic fuel of the British Empire. Reading it, you have to wonder if he isn’t writing by loose analogy about oil, trade and world domination too. About us, that is.

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Jai Bheem Comrade (2012, 198 mins) By- Anand Patwardhan For thousands of years India's Dalits were abhorred as "untouchables" denied an education an...

Gender Inequality and Public Spaces

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Classic films exploring social justice themes

In-house screenings March 2012: Classic films exploring social justice themes, everyday this week! Join us!

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Delhi has always made an impression on me, I have been drawn towards it, and every time I visit Delhi, my love affair with this city grows stronger. ...

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Browsing through back issues of Infochange Agenda, Rajashree Gandhi finds that "Space means a thousand different things, to a thousand different ...

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