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In Hindustan Times: On any given day, there are up to 10 brain dead people in ICUs across India. One donor can save up to seven lives. Yet, five lakh people die every year because organs simply aren’t available In the video on his mother’s phone, Arjun Shamat is dancing with his youngest sister; just

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A year of assertion when notice has been served on patriarchy

A new generation of anti-status-quoists is unapologetic about its beliefs, unafraid about whom it is taking on and unfettered by the hackneyed script. No careers were brought down. No global hashtags were created. No roars reverberated throughout the world. And yet, women in India continued chipping away at that edifice called patriarchy. In a year

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Afghan ensemble Zohra is a reflection of the transformative power of music

Just picking up a musical instrument is an act of courage for Zohra, Afghanistan’s first all-woman orchestra. When the call came, she was home at Kunar for her holidays. Negin Khapalwak had just got admission into the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, the only music school in her country. But there was a problem. The

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Women achievers open paths to achieve what was perceived as impossible

Among the dozen women extraordinary women awarded for transforming India is an amputee mountaineer, an acid attack survivor, an educator and India’s first blade runner. Before she left her village to catch a flight to Delhi, Sunita Kamble’s grandmother had some advice for her: Don’t talk to strangers, follow instructions and, above all, don’t wave

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