Mill Valley Film Festival Grows To Destination For Industry Vets

Now in its 39th year, the Mill Valley Film Festival has grown from an intimate, three-day gathering in the artsy, hippie kingdom of the San Francisco Bay area to an 11-day ...

Poetic Justice Offers Free Class On Theater-Based Approach To Social Change

Now celebrating its 16th season of serving the community, the Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble offers a free five-week class on its world-renowned social-change theater tech...

Kaleidoscope - Rebellious Women

At a time in the past, when women were denied education or any kind of independent existence, the only ones to have some limited freedom were female performers - ...

London Film Festival: Rosamund Pike Says Industry 'Not Easy For Women'

The film business is "doubly testing" of women, British actress Rosamund Pike has said at the London Film Festival premiere of her latest screen outing. "It's not easy bein...

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 o...

Kaleidoscope - Rule Of King

Stephen King who is known for his horror novels and thrillers, wrote a detective novel called Mr Mercedes, and then wrote two more with the same characters turning...

Kaleidoscope - Two To Tango

A new play Mr & Mrs Murarilal has a middle-age man and woman - played by SatishKaushik and Meghna Malik - have a romantic rendezvous in a park.

They have a defi...

This Year's Nobel Prize Winner's Research Could Transform Cancer Treatment

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, won the 2016 Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in which cells eat parts of them...

Investing In A Child's Early Years For A Stronger Economy

Over the next two decades, India will have one of the youngest and largest working age populations in the world. On one hand, this is promising news. But for India to capit...