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Losing our Lakes

Lonar Lake in Maharashtra is rapidly shrinking in size, researchers have found. The lake, situated in the Buldhana district near Amravati in central India, has recorded a decr...

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Celeb for a Cause

Actress Taapsee Pannu recently took up the initiative to educate women about menstrual hygiene. Pannu, known for her roles in the recent, critically acclaimed films Pink and B...

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A Win Against the Wage Gap

Deepika Padukone recently crossed another milestone by bagging a heavier pay cheque than her male co-actors. Padukone, who plays the titular character in director Sanjay Leela...

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Popular Indian Playback Singer Shaan Launches His Own Mobile App with New York-Based escapeX

Mumbai, August 31, 2017 — The very loved Indian Playback singer Shantanu Mukherjee known as Shaan will be announcing on Saturday, 2nd Sept 2017 the release of his new mo...

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Make Learning Entertaining, Says Sukhwinder Singh To Students At WWI

Mumbai, 31st August 2017: “Only a crazy artist can make his audience go crazy for him”, said renowned singer Sukhwinder Singh to an auditorium packe...

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Hollywood's Helping Hand

Hollywood actors and actresses are doing their bit of good for the victims of Hurricane Harvey by making monetary donations, and by using their reach to influence people to co...

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Washington set to host South Asian Film Festival

September 8th -10th, 2017 will see the annual Washington DC South Asian Film Festival 2017 kick off at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. Launched by Caesar Productions, th...

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Very Bad-Shaho

Cast: Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Sanjay Mishra, Vidyut Jammwal Direction: Milan Luthria Producer: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Milan Luthria Wri...

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A Few Good Men

Some years ago Rachna Bisht Rawat wrote a book called The Brave, about the 21 men from the armed forces, who were awarded the highest military honour, the Paramveer Chakra. Th...

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Shubh Mangal Savdhan

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Direction: R.S. Prasanna, Producer:Aanand L Rai, Krishika Lulla Writer: Hitesh Kewalya Genre:Romantic Comedy Duration:119 Mins*...

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BUSINESS: GIG WORK AND CAPITALIST FAILURE

Sharad Raj examines the New Year’s Eve gig workers’ strike to expose how neo...

January 14 2026

POWERFUL PEOPLE: A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Veenapani Chawla’s chance encounter with Naseeruddin Shah culminated in the birth ...

January 13 2026

THOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING

For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen&m...

January 12 2026