A Tako for Berkeley

The annual Berkeley Kite Festival, took place in the eponymous city in California in July, featuring Japanese kites, and hosted workshops to teach the ancient craft of maki...

WOMAD Music Festival

The WOMAD Festival, which stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance took place in Wiltshire, England from 27th to the 30th of July 2017.

WOMAD was originally founde...

Snapshots Make All The Difference In The World For UN’s 17 Goals

The United Nations has proposed 17 goals and 169 targets as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) for a more sustainable environment. The target or the self-imposed dead...

World Population Day: How Different Countries Seem To Be Bracing Themselves Against the Surging Population.

On July 11, 2017, the World Population Day is celebrated with the theme “Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations”. Reminiscing the days of yore w...

The Times Are Changing

Those familiar with Gujarati theatre would know that, by and large, the audience favours family dramas and social comedies. However, there are always exceptions to the rule...

This Year's Most Expertly Choreographed Ad Has A Superb Ending That Explains Everything

Here’s a commercial that should undoubtedly charm the Film judges at Cannes. It’s a spot out of Japan by agency Mori Inc., featuring incredible mathematical cho...

Long Arm Of Fear

It’s taken a while for this 2012 to come out in an English translation, but it was worth the wait for readers of Japanese crime fiction (Keigo Higashino is already a ...

Rules Of Memory 'Beautifully' Written

What really happens when we make and store memories has been unravelled in a discovery that surprised even the scientists who made it. The US and Japanese team found that t...

Japan kills More Than 300 Whales In Annual Antarctic Hunt

Whaling fleet returns to port after slaughtering hundreds of minke whales, in defiance of moratorium on hunting and global criticism A Japanese whaling fleet returned to po...