Deepika Padukone gets thumbs-up for her mental health initiative

B-Town’s gorgeous and talented Deepika Padukone recently took a bold step by talking about how she personally underwent anxiety and depression last year. It was hard ...

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...

Random Thoughts

It?s been a week of stray watching besides follow ups. ? I can?t understand why a channel like Disney Channel plays low key when they launch a new indigenous show. I am ref...

The Responsible Investor’s Guide to Climate Change

Around the world, institutional investors – including pension funds, insurance companies, philanthropic endowments, and universities – are grappling with the qu...

The Responsible Investor?s Guide to Climate Change

Around the world, institutional investors ? including pension funds, insurance companies, philanthropic endowments, and universities ? are grappling with the question of wh...

OF MISOGYNY, MENTAL HEALTH, STORYTELLING AND ALL INDIA BAKHCHOD!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius - and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It has now been a long time that I ...

“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...

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...

NO BLING, PLEASE

A television channel scan threw up an emerging change of dress code for women. The women characters ? mothers, mothers-in-law, bahus, etc. -- are wearing trendy outfits. Lo...