I Asked This Kid What She Wanted To Be When She Grew Up

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
When you ask a lot of kids this question, they usually have quick answers. They want to be doctors, artists, firefighter ......

Hansal Mehta’s ‘Aligarh’ To Close Dallas South Asian Film Fest

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s reality drama “Aligarh” will be closing the 2016 Dallas/Fort Worth South Asian Film Festival (DFW SAFF) on Sunday. And the direct...

Why Tagore Would Have Been Branded Anti-National Today

Yes, you read it right. Rabindranath Tagore, the poetic force of our national anthem was against the idea of nation and nationalism. To him, it was merely a machine that in...

The Electric Car Industry Is Going To Make You Love Them

How many people are ready to kick the century-old gasoline habit?

American car buyers are signing for more electric cars than ever, and more manufacturers are enter...

A Grass Called ‘Hairy Panic’ Has Engulfed Part of a Small Australian Town

A small town in Australia is being engulfed by something called “hairy panic,” and it’snot what you pull out of a clogged shower drain. Hairy panic is the...

Dublin International Film Festival Tours To Its Namesakes In Ohio, Texas And Virginia

Dublin here, Dublin there! This year the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (ADIFF ) will tour its Irish shorts program to international locations that share the names...

Gulzar, Shabana Azmi, Imtiaz Ali To Take Part In Urdu Fest

Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, ShabanaAzmi, Imtiaz Ali, are set to bring alive Urdu's timeless splendor Bollywood personalities Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, Sha...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...