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Karnataka Hamlet Is India?s 1st Smokeless Village

Until last month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40 years now. Not any more. Her kitchen is now fit...

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Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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Om Puri’s ‘Project Marathwada’ Launches Its First Look

~ Seen in the teaser Govind Namdeo, Dilip Tahil, Seema Biswas, Kunal Seth, Rahul Patel, Farah Kader and Katerina~
~ The teaser is hard-hitt...

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Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Thousands Of Animals Have Been Saved In Nepal As Mass Slaughter Is Cancelled

A festival in Nepal celebrating the world’s largest animal sacrifice was canceled on Tuesday in a landmark victory for activists. The Gadhimai Temple Trust said the e...

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Sonakshi Sinha Stands Against A Cruel Ritual In Tamil Nadu.

Sonakshi Sinha has always been vocal about social issues and now the actress has stood for animals who become victims of a cruel practice. Tamil Nadu is infamous for a ritu...

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David Letterman’s Dry-Eyed Farewell

The Letterman era came to an end with all the fanfare you would expect, but none of the emotion. “Save a little for my funeral, OK?” Thus David Letterman, durin...

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The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

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SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

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Digging Deep: Our Affinity For Rituals

We build off the shoulders of our ancestors. As the shadow of our pastdances against the wall of time, every nuanced movement, every refraction, every proportion contains t...

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