The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

Pin The Creep: Annual Crime Report Says One Third Of Mumbai’s Women Vulnerable To Attacks

Over a third of Mumbai’s women feel unsafe, with almost 47 per cent jump in cases of rape, molestation and

sexual assaults in the year 2014-15, according to a...

Tamsin Greig Interviews An Escapee Of Sex Trafficking.

When someone offers you your dream, those oppressed by poverty tend to seize the opportunity. Sex trafficking, however, is one of today’s fastest growing crimes, whic...

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

Tech Trek: Themes of Technological Influence in Cinema

Like the ever-present air, we live and breathe technology. Despite our excessive dependence on the array of media at our disposal, we take our options for granted. Neverthe...

‘Women Cannot Be Looked Upon As Inferior’ – Amitabh Bachchan

As crimes against women continue to escalate by the day, superstar Amitabh Bachchan, while talking on the subject, expressed his anguish. He feels the offenders of such cri...

THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of ev...

Manisha Koirala, Gulshan Grover And Mahima Chaudhary For A Cause 'Mission Save Her'

Bollywood celebrities like Manisha Koirala, Gulshan Grover and Mahima Chaudhary have decided to lend their support to Indian-American pop singer Reggie Benjamin and his NGO...

BOLD, BUT NOT BEAUTIFUL

Three months into 2015, two television channels are show casing varied fare. They have taken it on themselves to give viewers a mix of shows ? from the melodramatic soaps t...