India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law

India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Right...

Rediscovering Hidden Treasures : Hirak Rajar Deshe

The most renowned Indian film maker internationally, doubtless, is Satyajit Ray. His advent with the iconic debut, PatherPanchali (The Song of the Road) heralded an outstan...

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 Film - Airlift

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Feryna Wazheir

Direction: Raja Krishna Menon 

Produced: Nikhil Advani, Monisha Adwani, Aruna Bhatia, Madhu G. Bhojwani...

It Is Women Power At Box Office In 2016

Bollywood has over the years doled out numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies with woman as the protagonist. ‘Mother India’, ‘As...

Silent

Deep inside every woman I have ever known across the many hierarchies that paint my world is vacuum; the result of an endless internal conflict that remains unresolved.

Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

World Cinema To Feature At Film Festival In Nariman Pt

Mumbai: From Kazakhstan’s ‘Bopem’ and the Brazilian ‘Carandiru’ to ‘A Royal Affair’ from Denmark and the Serbian ‘Falsifikat...

Telangana Becomes First State To Make Gender Education Compulsory

Telangana has become the first State to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level; without repeating gender stereotypes in its bilingual textbook titled, ...