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Show more The Bechdel test asks whether two women are having a conversation which doesn't relate to a man. Many films, books and plays fall foul of the measure which first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, created by Matthew Sweet's guest today Alison Bechdel. Her memoir Fun Home became a Tony Award-winning musical and she has now published The Secret to Superhuman Strength which considers her relationship with exercise so she and Matthew go on an imaginary walk discussing topics including mushrooms, drinking, the response of her mum to being depicted in fict...

The importance of India’s health diplomacy For long thought of as a net recipient of global health benefits, India is turning into a global healthcare provider. This will be a major pillar of its diplomacy in the years to come. Image: Sanjay Rawat The old orientalist trope of India always featured poverty and disease. The image propagated by colonialists was often that of a perpetually pestilential air. There is no doubting that the country has come a long way since those times, but for many years, the world saw India as a net recipient of global health benefits (almost always the ...

>> began doing intensive oral history interviews of individual administrations under the leadership of my senior colleague, jim young, and the aftermath in the jimmy carter presidency in the early 1980s. and since that time, we've done authoritative interview projects on presidents carter, reagan, george h.w. bush, clinton and we're looking forward at some future date to beginning work on president george w. bush. we have in past years conducted two similar symposium to the one like we organized here done. one on the white ho...