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Hollywood

Djimon Hounsou Visits Nigeria With Oxfam

Earlier this month, Academy Award-nominated actor and Oxfam Global Ambassador, Djimon Hounsou, visited Nigeria to meet families living in desperate conditions as they face ...

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Gender

A Guide to the Social Factors That Put Transgender Lives at Risk

News coverage of transgender issues frequently includes devastating stories of violence and loss. Every year, we read about trans women who are brutally murdered, or trans ...

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Health

Why India’s Healthcare Trends In 2016 Do Not Bode Well For The Future

India should not persevere with its focus on privatising healthcare or relying on health insurance.The image that would haunt me for a long time from this year is that of D...

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Alternative Entertainment

Bengaluru Turns The Spotlight On Puppetry

Puppets are set to take centre stage at a five-day fest celebrating the art form Puppetry is going mainstream and Bengaluru is championing the cause of bringing this centur...

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Bollywood

Jackky Bhagnani Comes Up With Fitness Video For Kids

Jackky Bhagnani's social endeavours has made him come up with a fitness video, Kasrat, for municipal school students in Mumbai. The 30-minute routine is to enhance the phys...

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Hollywood

The Lumineers Donate Christmas Single Profits To Rainforest Charity

UK chart topping Americana superstars The Lumineers are spotlighting rainforest charity Cool Earth this Christmas, supporting the award-winning charity working with indigen...

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Festivals

Deaf Film Festival Gives Voice To Silence

They may not be able to hear, but they are out to make themselves heard, and that too through the big screen. In its fourth edition, the India International Deaf Film Festi...

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Bollywood

Bollywood actor Salman Khan Surveys Loos In Aarey Colony's unit number 7

Following an announcement of becoming brand ambassador for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) anti open defecation drive last week, Salman Khan has decided to b...

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Human Rights

Corruption, Caste Keep Poor From Owning Land In Northern India

For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - w...

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Sustainable Development

How AI Can Become A “Third Hemisphere” Of Our Brains

While artificial intelligence may replace truck dricers and beat us at chess, it also has much to offer: it can free up our minds and responsibilities for the tasks and soc...

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