Minority Report

Khalid Mohamed writes on the ceaseless ghettoization of Muslim characters in B-town’s mainstream movies, and now web ser...

Chiller Thrillers

Film historian Dhruv Somani unearths eight Bollywood films, which were grossly undervalued.

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The Talented Taurean: Bhanu Athaiya

Bhanu Rajopdhye Athaiya was born on April 28, 1929 in Kolhapur. Humra Quraishi interviewed Athaiya around ...

Simran Puri’s Kangan

Women are equals now by law but back then it was different…

The story unfolds amidst the splendour ...

Transparent wood could replace glass or plastic in energy-efficient homes

Introducing new material of wood may seem old in an era of steel and glass constructions. Researchers have now given a new makeover to timber w...

Netting to stop bird nesting is nasty and against nature

Bird netting or anti-bird netting is a form of bird pest control. It is a net used to prevent birds from rea...

Nothing Is Impossible

In one of SillyPoint Productions’ earlier plays, the UK royal family hid its Parsi roots (The Buckingham Secret), a satire on pl...

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew gets a gender-flip

Jo Clifford was asked to adapt The Taming of the Shrew, the play which she hated the most once. “I wasn’t ready to do it then,...

Supermarkets ‘confuse’ consumers on healthy food choices

BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates has discovered that food products high in salt and saturated fats are being marketed as healthy by leading superm...