Powerful Role Models Can Change How We Value Girls

Girls and women strive to embody images that are unrealistic, unattainable and often not even real. There’s a new, free app that allows girls and women to take a &ldq...

Climate Change Is Destroying Our Food

When you think of climate change, you think of the weather. Summers where the sun bakes the parched land with the ferocity of an oven, winters where snow deposits climb hig...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

Life OK: The Challenger

Television viewers in India  are now jostling each other for the remote and couch space to watch their preferred show at prime time i.e.: 8pm to 11pm. With Star Plus, ...

7th Filmsaaz concludes with Tigmanshu Dhulia, may shoot at AMU

The Valedictory function of the 7th Filmsaaz 2014, an annual International Film Festival of documentaries and short films, organized by University Film Club, Aligarh Muslim...

The Job Of A Filmmaker Is To Afflict The Comfortable And Comfort The Afflicted

MUMBAI, March 14, 2014 – On Saturday, acclaimed Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, blockbuster Nigerian director of note Tunde Kelani, and Oscar-nominated American produc...

Over & Underground

Overheard – “These are times of political opportunism, religious intolerance and scholastic Puritanism – and they can be construed as provocative ...