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Inside Apna Ghar Ashram Mumbai: A Safe Haven for Homeless and Abandoned Women in Mumbai (VIDEO)
In a quiet suburban corner of the city, Apna Ghar Ashram Mumbai (AGAM) has become a place of refuge for women who have nowhere else to go. Operated by the Shishu Welfare Trust of India, AGAM provides long-term care to women who are homeless, abandoned, separated from their families, or unable to return safely to…
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‘Satluj’ film taken down from Zee5 streaming platform days after its release
The film Satluj, which examines extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances by the Punjab police in the 1990s, has disappeared from the streaming platform Zee5. Honey Trehan’s film, previously titled Punjab ’95 and led by Diljit Dosanjh, was released on Zee5 on Friday evening. By late Sunday evening, the movie had vanished from the platform. In…
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How padel has disrupted the traditional world of lawn tennis
Padel has captured the sporting imagination in Britain and many Indian cities. Combining aspects of tennis and squash, and played across a net but within a walled court, padel was invented in Mexico in 1969. In the intervening half century, it cultivated a significant following in Latin America and Spain. Padel is the second most…
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Re-reading classics: Sigmund Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ gave us psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams late in 1899. It has outsized importance among his writings, as arguably the founding document of psychoanalysis. In his own estimation, the book contains “the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make”. When I first became interested in psychoanalysis, the Pelican…
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Arunachal Pradesh: Dam project could destroy habitat of white bellied heron, other endemic species
The environment minister’s Forest Advisory Committee has granted “in principle” approval to a hydropower project in a region of Arunachal Pradesh that is inhabited by the white bellied heron, a critically endangered bird whose species number was estimated to be less than 60, globally, in 2015. To compensate for the forest loss resulting from the…
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Sunday book pick: A happily ever after with four cats for ‘Two Women Living Together’
“We live in a generation where the most common molecule consists of a firmly bonded woman and man. But in the future, we might see a more diverse range of configurations. For instance, in this house, we’re W2C4 – two women and four cats. And as of now, I’d venture we’re a very stable configuration.”…