TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of ev...

Abstract Property: Imperialism of Ideas

Science and religion have been polarized over the issue of consciousness since time immemorial. Science attributes this fundamental function of our species to tiny volts of...

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

WILL TRADITION EVER TRANSITION

“Even a stopped Watch showscorrect timetwice a day” bespoke an optimist.

It is a matter of contemplation whether the same holds true for the march of ti...

Kiran Rao To Head NFDC’s Unique Film Centre “FILMBAY”

Mumbai, March 25 2015:Filmmaker Kiran Rao will spearhead a new and unique film centre in Mumbai “FilmBay”, a ...

“Marriage – Bond or Bondage”

“Are you married?” the Hollywood actress was asked on a TV show.

“Sometimes!” she answered.

The response is one amongst the variant ...

“To Be or Not To Be”

Nature gives the gift of life.

Law gives the right to life.

Who is to grant, not to live?

It is often a cause of wonderment why human ashes are grey...

Lifting the Curtain on Mental Health

“Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living,...