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Edition #30 · Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · 1895 positive stories
Kindness & Community

'Cool Ladies Club' is directed by 10 working-class women. They live up to the title

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They gave smartphones to 10 women from a working-class Indian community to make a documentary about their unseen and unheralded lives. The results are .... pretty cool.(Image credit: Mangesh Gudekar/School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS.)

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The kindness section highlights people helping people: strangers stepping in during emergencies, communities rallying around neighbors, small acts that ripple outward. These are not performative charity stories; they are moments where someone chose to act when they did not have to.

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