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PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when "Hail, Caesar!" opens the annual Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned show...

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Bollywood Is Male-Dominated But Things Are Improving: Sonam

Sonam Kapoor bound to be one happy person these days. Her last big screen outing Prem Ratan Dhan Payo had emerged a big winner at the box office while receiving rave reviews. ...

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Gillian Anderson Urges NYC Council To Keep Horses Safe

X-Files star Gillian Anderson took action this week to help horses abused in New York City’s horse-drawn-carriage industry. The actress wrote to members of the New York ...

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Forty Four Percent Of Our Rural Population Owns TV Sets

The recent research that was conducted by Equal Partners was to understand rural consumer behaviour. According to the research, rural consumer behaviour has changed significan...

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Ideas Thrown Up For Gender Equality

Male chauvinism thrives on the fear of rape among women. When women learn to surpass this fear mentally and physically, it will have no base to exist,” said gender activ...

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Unicef Meet In Assam Over Childbirth Deaths

Unicef, Assam, is taking a slew of measures to curb the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the state. It is planning to scale up the intersectoral consultation among various gov...

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India's New Open Internet Law Is Stronger Than The United States'

India’s landmark new open internet policy, which was hailed by net neutrality advocates around the world on Monday, increases the pressure on American regulators to addr...

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There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4 mi...

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Spinning The Lazy Susan With Stars At Rotterdam's Film Festival

Few film festivals give anyone the chance to sit next to a star director over dinner, so spinning the lazy susan in Rotterdam's favourite Chinese restaurant with Whit Stillman...

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Vidya Balan: Women Should Be Allowed To Wear What They Want To

"It is important that one's view point changes. Girls should be allowed to wear what they want to. Her honour is not related to their clothes. The respect for them (girls and ...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024