Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

Retroscope : The Date

I reached a little after 11 a.m. the hour family courts open in Bandra East. In the lobby stood my husband’s assistant. Seeing me, the man quickly shifted his ga...

Loving Vincent Is The First Feature Film To Be Animated With Paintings

With the advent of computer-generated imagery (CGI), there’s no longer much place in film for handcrafted beauty. Animated films made with paper, pencils, and paintbr...

Kaleidoscope - Theatre Of Tolerance

As the sensitive Aligarh about the persecution of a gay professor releases, the positive response to it shows that ordinary people are getting over their prejudice...

Jude Law Takes To The Stage At Refugee Camp In France

On Sunday 21st February 2016, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Tom Odell, Sir Tom Stoppard, Matt Berry, ShappiKhorsandi and Toby Jones alongside a number of displaced refugees, ...

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

True Review TV - A Classic Revisited

Monday evening saw the start of Life OK?s newest serial -- Ek Tha Chander Ek Thi Sudha, a page out of the best of Hindi literature -- Dharamvir Bharati?s iconic novel, Guna...

Why Big Corporations Like Gap And eBay Are Mobilizing Against Climate Change

This week, California legislators received a pair of letters signed by dozens of corporations in support of two bills that would require the state to further reduce its gre...