Alternative Entertainment

The United Nations Is Turning VR Into A Tool For Social Change

Virtual reality is lauded as an empathy generator. The ability to transport viewers to a setting that would otherwise be inaccessible, or even unfathomable, lends a sense of p...

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'Affection' Is An Uplifting New Play About HIV

Six years ago, theatre director Ben Buratta started an unusual collective called Outbox Theatre. Consisting solely of LGBTQ performers, they hold workshops with youth groups a...

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Amazon India To Launch Music Festival With MTV Ahead Of Festive Season Sale

Amazon.in, along with MTV, has rolled out a content marketing initiative ahead of the festive season. The e-tailer has partnered with MTV Brand Studio to launch a music festiv...

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Kazoo Is The First Feminist Magazine For Little Girls Who Love Outer Space & Climbing Trees

At a time when every child over the age of six enters the world armed with smartphones and iPads it has become more necessary than ever to tailor worthwhile content for young ...

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Stephen Hawking To Headline Science And Music Festival In Norway

The theoretical physicist will deliver a lecture at Starmus IV in Trondheim when it moves from the Canary Islands next year to examine origin and evolution, the human brain, s...

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Aamchi Cinema: Diversity In Unity

How does a simple family in a traditional village grapple with a transgender child and the concomitant sexuality and identity crises? Suhaas Bhosale’s Koti casts a sensi...

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Deepa Gahlot: Plays That Stand The Test Of Time

Many plays continue to have a hold over every new generation of audiences and directors, who keep going back to them Not too many plays stand the test of time, but there are s...

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Pacific-Wide Storytelling Initiative Launched

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning has launched the Pacific Storytellers Cooperative, an Internet platform for place-based stories from all Pacific Islands to be sha...

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Theatre Will Shrink, Like Cinema Viewing Has: Naseeruddin Shah

Last weekend, veterans Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah (right) — as Mrs Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw, respectively — staged the play, Dear Liar....

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A Cry From The Mountains, With Echoes In The Cities

The story of Hindi poet Mangalesh Dabral, who was born in Tehri Garhwal in 1948 but for most of his career as a journalist lived and worked in Delhi, is the story of Uttarakha...

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CANNES 2026 REVIEW: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG

CANNES 2026 REVIEW: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG The Elephant in the Room – and Beyond: S...

May 23 2026

KASHISH 2026 OPENS WITH JIMPA

At the 17th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival in Mumbai, the Norwegian film JIMPA, ...

May 22 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 5

In Prof Dr Piyush Roy’s Student City Part 5, a volatile night at a Pune B-School d...

May 21 2026