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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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Climate research gets Norwegian boost

Climate research

Climate change research is set to receive a boost with the Royal Norwegian Embassy giving a grant of Rs 14 crore to city-based environment research institute and think-tank, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). ATREE is also to get a Rs 5 crore corpus from philanthropist Rohini Nilekani. “The infusion of new resources will enhance ATREE’s work on climate change, biodiversity conservation, and environmental governance and policies,” said Kamal Bawa, ATREE president...

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Review: Childhood Days

Review of Childhood Days

The man never ends to fascinate. Filmmaker, composer, writer, artist - you name one creative-artistic aspect of life, and he would revel in it. If there has been any man in India who has been a one-man institution after Rabindranath Tagore, it has been Satyajit Ray. What went into the making of this genius? Most of what used to be known about India's greatest filmmaker's days prior to the making of his 1955 classic debut venture ( Pather Panchali) particularly about his days as a youngster is...

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