Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

Shabana Azmi Says, Marriage Not A Disqualification In Bollywood

She has been married for over three decades to veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar and has essayed powerful roles in Bollywood in her 44-year journey. Acclaimed performer and soc...

Phoenix Film Festival 2017

There are so many reasons to love the Phoenix Film Festival: the diverse selection of films, the inclusion of Arizona directors, and the fact that you can see absolutely ev...

On Parwati Dutta’s Journey To Introduce Arts Education To The Deprived

Here are dancers who travel the world, win laurels, bring glory to their art form, produce innovative choreography, build an army of competent students and then there are t...

You Can’t Close The Gender Gap In Science And Tech Without Equal Pay

We're in the midst of a push from governments and nonprofits alike to get more women in science, from preschool to the postgraduate level. There are still significantly few...

Why I Wrote A Play About William Wordsworth

I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It opens at The Theatre by the Lake, in Kesw...

18 Women Filmmakers On Gender And Representation In Hollywood

“I feel like we’re still way, way behind. Like, enormously behind. But I also feel hopeful and I’m a fighter and so I’ll keep on fighting. I’m...

Women's Prize For Fiction 2017

The 2017 shortlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced, featuring six novels by female authors writing in English from across the globe. Set up in ...

Museum of stories

On a warm evening, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Bengaluru painted a different sight. An unusual number of visitors had descended on the premier art space in the ci...