Humanity To The Fore

There is a saying in Punjabi, Jis Lahore naivekhya o jamiya hi nai—which translates roughly as ‘He who hasn’t been to Lahore hasn’t li...

Dalit women in Rajasthan tortured, beaten and killed after being branded ‘Witches’

A sting operation was carried out in September by Ms. Ahluwalia, chairperson of Baal Evum Mahila Chetana Samiti, along with two women volunteers and a team of jour...

Martin Scorsese teaches filmmaking online

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out" - Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese drew his first storyboard when he was eight. Today he’s a legenda...

Archie's Four Lives

Paul Auster’s 4321 has made it to the Man Booker Award shortlist this year—the extraordinary 880-page tome that is as much about its protagon...

Displacement follows terror: Rights of millions concerns our world.

"They forced us onto trucks like animals".  A 55-page report titled thus has shook the world. The document, chronicles the atrocities committed by Cameroonian...

Earthquakes are inevitable, disaster is not. Should India not learn preparedness from Californians?

In the National Earthquake Conference that happened in May 2016 at the Hilton Long Beach, California, Tom Jordan, the director of the Southern California Earthquak...

Kern Aggarwal and Ranjani Prabhakaran - Wedded to making a difference

Kern Agarwal and Ranjani Prabakaran, a couple from Chennai left their daily routine jobs to plunge full-time into organic farming. They took an initiative to promote organi...

The Slate Wiped Clean

As life spans increase in modern times, one of the consequent risks is age-related memory loss or dementia. Alzheimer’s Disease attacks the brain and slowly wipes the...

Blood in the Rakhine

The United Nations recognizes every individual, by virtue of birth, to have an equal right to dignity, and consider this the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the...