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Human Rights

Why 2016 Is The Year To Shake Up Humanitarian Funding

Some say the system to fund the humanitarian response to conflicts and disasters is broken beyond repair. Some say it just needs a tweak. But everyone agrees, global humanitar...

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Sustainable Development

The End of Big Data

Personal data is anything but personal. Our phones and televisions listen in on us; the most powerful corporations in the world trade in consumer tics, browsing histories, and...

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Environment

Why Snakes' Biggest Defenders Are In Favor Of Killing Them

So when I learned that some of them are currently gearing up for an event that’s seemingly organized around killing snakes, I was intrigued. The 2016 Python Challenge, w...

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Festivals

From Iran To Marcellus? A Small-Town Film Festival Is Attracting International Attention

Marcellus, N.Y. -- When Lewis McCaffery decided to launch a hyper-local film festival in Marcellus, he wasn't sure what to expect. But he certainly didn't expect entries from ...

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Independent

Swing Dancing Is Back, In Documentary Form

Of all the errant bits of ’90s nostalgia that have gotten stuck in the world’s pop-cultural teeth in recent years, one that has yet to lodge itself between our met...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope: Theatre A La Carte

Just a month into the new year, and quite a few noteworthy things have already happened on the theatre scene—Pankaj Kapur returned to theatre with a new play Dopehri, wh...

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Hollywood

2 Chainz Donates A Home To A Family In Need

Following a charitable holiday season, which included assisting a disabled veteran pay her rent for a year and hosting “TRU 2 Hoops Holiday Basketball Classic” at ...

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Trending

Whistling Woods International To Host LGBT Film Screening

India’s premier film, communication and media arts institutewill host KASHISH Forward, India’s first travelling LGBTQ campus film festival It is ‘Pride Mont...

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Gender

21 Leaders 2016 - Meet Three Powerhouses Who Test Healthcare.

Something inside Schell Carpenter clicked as she witnessed Texas Senator Wendy Davis' 2013 filibuster of an omnibus anti-choice bill that threatened to reduce the number of ab...

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Health

Not-So-Bitter Pill

Oral contraceptive use not associated with increased birth defects risk. Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects, a...

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TRENDING: IS HE A LEADER OR A PROPAGANDIST?

Was it the leader of a democratic nation or a propagandist spewing divisive rhetoric in ...

April 28 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: LOOKING FOR THE MAHANAYAK

Srijit Mukherji’s Oti Uttam is a film hard to dislike. And no, it’s not just...

April 27 2024

POLITICS: PEOPLE WILL DEFEAT AMIT SHAH

Vinta Nanda spent two days with Sonal Patel and returns to tell us that the Congress Par...

April 26 2024