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Mark Ruffalo Pledges Support For Massive Protest Action

One of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation is coming to Capitol Hill in April of 2016. More than 2,000 individuals from around the country, including Gaby H...

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Only 1 In 10 Film Directors In India Is Woman: Study

Women are greatly under-represented in the Indian film industry while their number as audience in theatres was far lesser than men, a study on Gender in Media says.  B-To...

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Breaking The Gender Earnings Gap

Betty Ajio has made a living for the past 23 years doing a job that most women would not think of doing.The 43-year-old metal fabricator makes 120 to 230 cooking pots a day in...

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The World is in Need of Transformative Solutions

The world has changed significantly since 2000, when the countries of the world adopted the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While strong economic growth in...

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Why Tagore Would Have Been Branded Anti-National Today

Yes, you read it right. Rabindranath Tagore, the poetic force of our national anthem was against the idea of nation and nationalism. To him, it was merely a machine that in th...

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NASA’s New Space Telescope Will Study Dark Energy And Earth-Sized Planets

It’s finally official: NASA’s next major telescope project will be the innovative Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). The space telescope is projected t...

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The Electric Car Industry Is Going To Make You Love Them

How many people are ready to kick the century-old gasoline habit? American car buyers are signing for more electric cars than ever, and more manufacturers are entering the ma...

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Why Ratan Tata Is Backing This Young Man's Idea Of Saving Stray Dogs From Roadkill

Posted on February 20, 2016: Tens of thousands of stray dogs are killed on Indian roads every year. While individual numbers vary from city to city, no one is really keeping a...

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Berlin Film Festival 2016 Roundup: Serious Gems And Stylish Risks.

The Coens splashed out, Cynthia Nixon channelled Emily Dickinson, Ivo Ferreira shone with his poignant docudrama on war in Angola – and Meryl Streep marshalled a hard-pr...

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Outpost: The Port Eliot Festival.

Deep in the Cornish countryside, in the tiny village of St Germans, sits the house and estate of Port Eliot. A plot of land Napoleon himself claimed to be the most beautiful p...

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POLITICS: WHO TRULY BENEFITS FROM CONFLICT?

As violence and political tensions escalate in the Middle East, the global community wat...

September 21 2024

FESTIVALS: DIVINE WISDOM UNVEILED AT COSMIC ART GALLERY

An art exhibition celebrates Ganesha’s wisdom through the spiritual masterpieces o...

September 20 2024

FESTIVALS: IMMORTALISING BIMAL ROY’S CINEMATIC LEGACY

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya discusses the inspiration behind the Bimal Roy Award, the challen...

September 19 2024