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Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear has become one of the defining fashion shifts of the past decade, moving from gym bag to daily wardrobe with a speed that caught even its own industry off guard. The clothes now travel everywhere: errands, social occasions, the school run, the home office. What has not travelled with them, new research suggests, is the confidence the industry has spent years promising they would deliver.

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On a Clear Day You Can See India
6 Billion
Do Population Policies Matter
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Lake it or not, we are all responsible

There is something surreal about the way people – from politicians to citizens – have been reacting to two incidents: the order of the National Green Tribunal penalising two real estate developers for unauthorised constructions in the city's lakes, and the frothing over of Varthur lake. The decay and obliteration of Bangalore's lakes is not news, and neither are the reactions of one and sundry. The outrage is misplaced, since it seems politicians and real estate developers are the only ones...

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Review: India through the Western Lens

Review of India through the Western Lens

Cinema plays a powerful role in implicating the way in which an audience begins to think about the 'reality' that each film supposedly depicts. Ananda Mitra investigates the representation of Indians in Western films and locates this analysis within the context of the larger issue of the manner in which Indian immigrants are viewed in the West today. Mitra covers a large spectrum of films made over several decades and critiques the issue by identifying and analysing how those narrative and...

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Review of The Kargil War

Review: The Kargil War

3 October 1999
Kaito Sema

Gunning for Naga heads

22 August 1999