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The Girl Club Of Bollywood Ft. Sanober Pardiwala I The Hauterfly Do you think stunt doubles get enough credit for the hard work they put in on behalf of celebrities and their safety? Today on The Girl Club Of Bollywood we have Sanober Padriwala - a stuntwoman who gets real about what goes behind all those stunts performed by them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7RaPBT0PE

Meet Bollywood’s Stuntwoman Sanober Pardiwalla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmhw-neZmI

'Virus Not As Infectious as We Think, 80-90% of Family Members of Patients Do Not Contract COVID' In a 40-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire Prof. Dileep Mavalankar was asked whether this means that Covid-19 is not as infectious a disease as we thought. In reply he said whilst that is one explanation he inclines towards the belief that the results show that everyone is not automatically susceptible to the disease. As he put it: “We need to rethink about the susceptibility of individuals to this virus”. As Prof. Dileep Mavalankar put it this means: “A lot of us are a lot safer than we thought we would be.” Prof. Dileep Mavalankar told The Wire that his findings corroborate and seem to confirm the ‘immunological black matter’ theory propounded by Karl Friston, a neuro-scientist at University College London, who has argued that perhaps as many as 50% of any population do not become susceptible to a virus because of such factors as cross immunity and geographical isolation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjQN44kjrSQ

Shakuntala Devi | Mathematical Bonanza | 1977 https://youtu.be/MGBTHb0FigI

“Some Stories Around Witches”: A Painful Reminder Of The Horrors Of Witch-Hunts In India https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2016/09/some-stories-around-witches-review-psbt/

A devastating documentary from Odisha proves that witchcraft is actually about witchhunts Lipika Singh Darai’s ‘Some Stories Around Witches’ explores the barbaric practice through three case studies. https://scroll.in/reel/810876/a-devastating-documentary-from-odisha-proves-that-witchcraft-is-actually-about-witchhunts

Some Stories around Witches Stories of some people in Odisha, accused, ostracised and tortured for being ‘witches’, pointing to a deeper crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDK-tI8y8w

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Ep. 03 | Waiting For A Train Home | A New Normal ft. Samdish When the popular narrative celebrated the end of the migrant workers crisis in our country, for the third episode of A New Normal ft. Samdish, we spent a day outside a railway station to observe the process of boarding a Shramik Special Train. What we saw in Dankaur was hopelessness, utter confusion and zero social distancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTI3kGwYBeE

Ep. 02 | Outside A Hospital | A New Normal ft. Samdish With the Covid-19 cases rising exponentially and the anxiety surrounding healthcare in India getting worse, for the second episode of A New Normal ft. Samdish, we decided to spend a day outside one of the biggest hospitals in Delhi. To say what we witnessed was scary would be a gross understatement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lrPggGiGaw

Ep. 01 | Inside A Crematorium | A New Normal ft. Samdish As all of us keep a tab on the rising number of Covid-19 deaths, for the first episode of A New Normal ft. Samdish, we decided to witness, inside a crematorium, how the pandemic has changed death as we know it. From the logistical processes involved in cremating a virus infected body to not being able to see your loved one for the final time, we get a glimpse into a new normal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYNydVLnj2E

CONFLICT - A Documentary On COVID Warriors | Life At The Red Line | TIMES NOW The world didn't see the Coronavirus pandemic coming. Yet we expect the medical fraternity to have all the answers and win this war for us. While that is a big expectation, our doctors and nurses are taking it in their stride, bound by their duty and oath. But do we understand what's at stake for them? After all, they're human too. Conflict- Life At The Red Line is a Times Network special documentary dedicated to our frontline workers who are tackling on a daily basis, in hospital wards, ambulances, in quarantine and at home. While many COVID patients recover from the illness and put a few weeks of quarantine behind them with relative ease, front-liners are in this fight for the long run. Conflict is about this personal and professional challenges faced by India's Covid Warriors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mLGLDoVFwI

Cancer treatment took a massive hit in April and May, when roughly 70% of patients could not access life-saving surgery and treatment, according to data from some of India’s largest super-speciality hospitals. Cancer surgeries in April and May in the aftermath of the lockdown enforced from March 25 to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease pandemic were one-fifth the surgeries performed in the corresponding period in 2019. Cancer services declined by 50% in April and May compared to the same period last year, shows data from leading private hospitals for cancer across India. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/cancer-care-takes-a-hit-during-lockdown/story-9yIR9C2F6ZhRmyodjFdGRO.html

Can you please post this on your Whatsapp groups? There are many of us who're facing mental health challenges during this pandemic. Those seeking help need to know that - there is someone always listening to those who need it. Ask your friends and family members to forward this on their groups too. http://www.aasra.info/helpline.html

On The Frontline Ep.3: Meet The Man Who Has Buried Over 200 Covid-19 Victims This video focuses on one such grave digger, Mohammed Shameen, who has buried over 200 Covid-19 victims in the Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam ( New Cemetery for Mohamedans) in New Delhi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAHcUANuvKs

On The Frontline Ep. 2: First I Was Angry, Then I Realised They Have No Choice But To Walk This video focuses on one such banker and volunteer, Snehal Wankhede, who goes out every day to help migrant labourers in need. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRVnTW-H_ZI

On The Frontline Ep.1: I can't work from home and I'm afraid for my family Not everyone has the option to work from home. This series is about the frontline warriors of the Covid-19 pandemic, who are putting their lives at risk for us. This video focuses on one such freelance photojournalist, Vijay Pandey, who goes out every day to get us stories, going where others won't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_4BNGpDWA

Ship of Theseus is a 2013 Indian drama film written and directed by Anand Gandhi, and produced by actor Sohum Shah. The film explores "questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through the stories of an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and an enterprising stockbroker", played by Aida El-Kashef, Neeraj Kabi and Sohum Shah. The title of the film alludes to Theseus’ paradox, most notably recorded in "Life of Theseus", wherein the Greek historian and philosopher Plutarch inquires whether a ship that has been restored by replacing all its parts remains the same ship. The film released in India on 19 July 2013. It won the award for the Best Feature Film of the year at the 61st National Film Awards https://youtu.be/zuQYlgL73o0