WATCH OUT FOR MAHA ACTION

What?s interesting on television is the presence of authentic firang actors playing firang roles. Earlier, Tom Alter was invariably cast as the foreign hand in Hindi films;...

Make your handicaps your wings, says Hrithik Roshan

There is a way out of every struggle that one may encounter in life – that’s the message actor Hrithik Roshan has given out after successfully overcoming obstac...

Madam C.E.O., Get Me a Coffee

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Women Doing ‘Office Housework’

This is the sad reality in workplaces around the world: Women help mor...

The World May No Longer Know These 4 Deadly Diseases By 2030

In all of human history, we’ve only ever been able to completely wipe out one disease: smallpox. Declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980, smallpo...

Child, Bride, Mother

In Guatemala, the legal age of marriage is 14 with parental consent, but in Petén, in the northern part of the country, the law seems to be more of a suggestion. Und...

Manisha Koirala walks 'for life'

Actress Manisha Koirala, a survivor of ovarian cancer, took part in CanSupport’s Walk for Life 2015 here Sunday to create awareness about the disease. The purpose of ...

Climate change marchers told to hire private security firm

Campaign Against Climate Change says Britons now have to ?pay to protest? after police refuse to close roads along route The right to stage demonstrations in Britain could ...

The gender of a sound byte

Dear Barkha, This is taking up from where we last left off. The last time we met at a dinner party in Mumbai, you had enquired why I always turned down requests to appear o...

Laughter Is Power

The many comedy shows on television and Internet make us laugh because they make fun of others, usually those who we want to mock: Politicians, Bollywood stars, macho men, ...