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Born A Cremator: An Indian Boys Fight For An Education

The night Yogi Choudhury's father died, the teenager was asleep in his boarding school. His older brother had travelled some three hours along a dirt track to find the scho...

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12 Year Old Ananya Vinay: 13th Consecutive Winner Of Indian Origin Wins National Spelling Bee

Ananya Vinay on Friday evening won the 90th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 12-year-old from Fresno, California, seemed nearly unstoppable throughout the competit...

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Human Rights

This Community Fridge Is Helping The Homeless & The Hungry

As the bell chimes loudly at the Shiv Temple in Versova, an elderly woman hobbles towards the temple’s gates, briefly stopping by the flower vendor, who nods at her a...

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Sustainable Development

This Indian Village Is Making Jeans Out Of Banana Fibre

Things getting a little stuffy in those jeans? Slide into a pair of banana fibre jeans and liberate those sweaty legs!
Anakaputhur, a weavers’ village located on...

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Environment

35% Of World's 'National Animals' Are Threatened By Extinction

The US bald eagle is doing fine. The Central American tapir of Belize? Not so much. Just about every country has a national animal, a symbol that is widely recognized and a...

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Festivals

Duluth Superior Film Festival Highlights The Region, Women & Native Americans

Matthew Dressel found award-winning inspiration while traveling the backroads of Michigan as a teenager. What if a deer hunter's bullet went off its mark and hit a car, he ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Best Movies Of 2017 So Far

If the first half of 2017 has offered more than a few reasons to run screaming from the news and sit in a darkened room away from it all, at least it’s also offered p...

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Hollywood

10 Female Superheroes To Remember

Gal Gadot-starrer ‘Wonder Woman’ that arrived in theatres last Friday is the rare superhero film with a female protagonist. Here are 10 other female superheroes...

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Three Lead Artists Break The 'Bro-Code' In Indian Comic Scene

Some middle-aged men ask them to ‘go more dirty’ with their jokes, some older uncles tell them ‘not to swear’. While men are found funny, women comi...

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14 Titans From 7 Countries Join The Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge, an elite network of big philanthropic givers, has gained 14 new members from 7 countries, including the founder of discount airline easyJet, a Norwegian ...

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