Saluting Akbar Padamsee, an artist and a beautiful mind

It was with a tentative sense of bravado that I had approached Akbar Padamsee, supremo artist, for the use of one of his brilliant metascapes &...

Exploration of gender, a key theme on this year’s Wellcome Book Prize shortlist

On embracing the 10th anniversary of the Wellcome Book Prize 2019, the best new books that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and i...

Never Home Alone – more than 5000 other species share your home

Rob Dunn, a 43-year-old American biologist visits a house in Copenhagen to hunt microbial life. He takes a look of Lars Eriksen’s house a...

Short stories that will make your day

“The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.” – Rachel Anders.

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Penn Badgley voices his opinion on lack of Diversity and Inclusion in Hollywood

Penn Badgley, the 32-year-old American actor is taking a stand against acting which is now so stiflingly un-diverse, that he is calli...

The Life of Germaine Greer, the Australian Writer from the Second-wave Feminist Movement

Former celebrated feminist Germaine Greer is no stranger to controversy. An Australian writer and public intellectual, she ...

Ad Guru and Theatre personality Alyque Padamsee passes away at 90

Veteran adman, theatre personality and brand consultant Alyque J. Padamsee died at the age of 90 in Mumbai last Saturday. He’s best known for iconic advertising campa...

The Staging of DEEWAR in India 2018

Prithvi Theatre opened to the public on a day in 1978, forty years ago. It is today an address that apart from being ...

A Tribute to Kalpana Lajmi

"A woman filmmaker is a hustler who is constantly trying to sell herself." – Kalpana Lajmi   

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