Ten top issues for women’s health

Today is the International Women’s Day. It is a day to celebrate women and their achievements. It is also a day to take stock of how women’s rights, especially ...

7 Unasked Questions On A Ban

Augustine Veliath

India’s Daughter was banned. Let us look at seven unasked questions in this debate. Was banning the film a knee jerk reac...

POLITICS AND COMPLEXITY OF CULTURES IN INDIAN MEDIA

Writing entertaining content is no longer about an indulgence; nor about the purging of an overwhelmed soul.

Neither is it about following directives of marketing a...

Emergency Care Essential to Stop Maternal Deaths

I was a gynecologist in Bo, Sierra Leone, when Mariama arrived on a motorcycle in front of our clinic. She was heavily pregnant and pale, sandwiched between her mother and ...

Gautam Rode starts campaign to help street kids!

Gautam Rode recently started working on the new show Mahakumbh. The actor is widely popular among the telly-loving audience, especially for his role of Saras in the recentl...

Asian cities to be worst hit by climate change.

Governments are finding it difficult to cope with the swelling population Fast-growing cities in Asia will be the worst affected by climate change because of their swelling...

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

Television’s Otherwise Abled People

When it comes to portraying a mentally imbalanced person on the screen, and I am referring to television, there is a misconception that any character that has retardation i...

DOORDARSHAN’S DAY OUT

The Republic Day weekend was a revelation of sorts. On Sunday night, Life OK telecast a superlative awards night -- Life OKScreen Awards 2015 and on Republic Day, the parad...