MANISH MUNDRA’S DRISHYAM / SUNDANCE INSTITUTE SCREENWRITERS LAB, 2015 CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THEIR FIRST EDITION

Mumbai, February 27, 2015: Manish Mundra’s film production company, Drishyam, in partnership with Sundance Institute, is organising Dhrishy...

The Immorality of Coal

Momentum seems to be building for a global deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December. With this sense of optimism comes a keen awareness t...

Wild

Critics rating:  2.5 Stars

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski

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10 Ridiculous Ideas About Sexual violence and rape

Sexual violence and rape have suddenly taken centrestage on national TV, social media, office-lunch discussions, pre-meeting chit-chat, you name it. Not to mention the alar...

Geoengineering is an insane way to deal with climate change. Let’s consider it anyway.

Geoengineering — the idea of deliberately fiddling with the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming — has long been seen as an insane, preposterous, mad-...

MELINDA GATES WOULD GIVE ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD TO EMPOWER WOMEN

Melinda Gates takes her passion for data and for doing well to women and girls in the developing world. She talks to ELLE Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers about breaking the cy...

Small Tales, Tall Order

The brief was succinct and the hype substantial. Five films of five minutes duration each were being screened at Matterden in Lower Parel on 11th February as apart of the T...

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...

Fossil fuel companies are the greatest threat to life’s party – not greens

People who argue it’s a good idea to respect nature’s thresholds get labelled spoilsports, but the real party-poopers are those who recognise no limits at all &...