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WHO’s first chief scientist talks about her journey, interest in TB and her father MS Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan and her colleagues were among the first to scale up the use of molecular diagnostics for TB surveillance.
Papiya Bhattacharya
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Mattel’s Rosa Parks Barbie doll peddles a simplistic version of history
Mattel’s description of Parks’s life after 1955 reflects a widespread habit of presenting the Civil Rights Movement as having a successful mid-1960s endpoint.
David Ballantyne, The Conversation
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With their bravery at Peterloo massacre, British women changed English politics forever
In 1819, a peaceful rally for political reform in Manchester turned violent after police attacked protestors, especially women, with truncheons and sabres.
Robert Poole, The Conversation
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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The woman who defied market traditions and men’s opposition to create Barbie
In the 60th anniversary year of the world’s most famous doll, a look back at the journey of its creator, Ruth Handler.
Bertrand Venard, The Conversation
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Queens, poets, academics, mystics: A calendar celebrates 12 inspirational women of Kashmir
The Kashmiri Women’s Design Collective pays tribute to the women who have impacted their lives.
Onaiza Drabu
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Shamed and sidelined for too long, plus-size women in Pakistan are now speaking up
Fashion bloggers and celebrities in Pakistan are embracing their curves and putting haters to shame.
Annam Lodhi
Video
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Uproar over Malala’s jeans: For Pakistan, women’s autonomy is a threat to national integrity
Pakistanis use women as easy targets to vent cultural anxiety, be it Mahira Khan smoking or Malala wearing Western clothes.
Zoya Rehman
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Maryam Mirzakhani’s success showed us the challenges women in maths still face
It took 80 years for a woman to be awarded the highest prize in mathematics, the Fields Medal.
Vicky Neale, The Conversation
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Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win Fields Medal in mathematics, dies of cancer
The Iranian had breast cancer.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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The first woman to run the Boston Marathon does it again 50 years later
Kathrine Switzer, 70, completed the run just a few minutes slower than she did in 1967.
Scroll Staff
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The 19th-century women doctors of India whose pioneering work has been forgotten by history
Charlotte Ellaby and her peers changed the rules, when women were only considered fit to be nurses or midwives.
Anu Kumar
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Why even a great writer like Adichie should not be an expert on everything
Why do we expect a writer to have a position on everything under the sun?
Hani Yousuf
The Field
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Watch, highlights ISL 2024: Odisha FC through to semi-final after beating Kerala Blasters in playoff
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time