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Bollywood Bats For Clean India!

While films are now addressing serious social issues, it is overwhelming to see Bollywood celebrities taking charge offscreen as well. Doing their bit to spread awareness on t...

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Irish Comedians To Support Comic Relief With St Patrick's Day Stand-Up Comedy Gig

On St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March, the cream of Irish stand-up comedy is gathering at the 3Arena in Dublin for the very first Irish event in support of Comic Relief. Spea...

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Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several visi...

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Smoke And Mirrors

Pankaj Kapur returned to the stage last year, with a charming one-man show, Dopehri. Kapur is an illustrious alumnus of the National School of Drama and did quite a few plays ...

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How One Man Repopulated A Rare Butterfly Species In His Backyard

The California pipevine swallowtail butterfly is a wonder to behold. It begins its life as a tiny red egg, hatches into an enormous orange-speckled caterpillar, and then &mdas...

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What I Learned From ‘Gender Revolution’

“It’s hard to hate up close.”  ― Dr. Oz I have spent the last several months immersed in a documentary for National Geographic called “Gender Re...

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Here’s Why India Is Struggling And Failing To Control Tuberculosis

TB is continuing to devastate lives in India because of the government’s inability to regulate an exploitive private health sector, and to fill gaps in the supply of liv...

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How Mohammed Waris (and others like him) Could Benefit From The New Disability Law In India

Following India’s glittering performance at the 2016 Paralympics (when disabled athletes won four medals, including two golds – our best since 1968), one could be ...

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Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools

Matthew Mitchell had one of his first encounters with surveillance in the 1990s. At General Electric, his work usually involved repairing computers. But after a sexual harassm...

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Urban Butterfly Declines 69% Compared To 45% Drop In Countryside

Butterflies have vanished from towns and cities more rapidly than from the countryside over the past two decades, according to a new study. Industrial agriculture has long bee...

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SLOW CINEMA AGAINST CONSUMED TIME

Poetry Of Slow Cinema In The Times Of Reels & Shorts: Sharad Raj examines how slow c...

July 31 2026

WOMEN FACE A DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP CLOCK

Experience should open doors, not close them, regardless of gender. Sushmita Chowdhary e...

July 30 2026

UTTAM KUMAR: BENGAL’S ETERNAL MAHANAYAK

Forty-six years after Uttam Kumar’s death, Bengal’s Mahanayak remains unmatc...

July 29 2026