Poster Boys Of Bollywood: Celebs Who Championed For A Cause.

Minutes after Aamir Khan joined the intolerance debate and said that his filmmaker-wife Kiran Rao suggested leaving the country, Anupam Kher took a swipe at the star in a s...

Retroscope - A Veritable Carnival

The 19th edition of CFSI’s festival turned out to be a veritable carnival, a feast of colourful sights and sounds.
Had I not gone, I would have missed the robust...

Singapore Film Festival Unspools With New Focus on Audience Outreach

Back for its sophomore outing as a component of the Singapore Media Festival, the 26th Singapore Intl. Film Festival is showing little sign of the malaise that often strike...

Women’s Empowerment Gets A Fillip In Advertising In India

MARKETING strategies can never ignore women as they are pivotal in household purchase decisions. So can advertising strategies be any different? A recent flurry of ads...

Smartphone Could Help Detect Air Pollution

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost method of detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a significant ai...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’

India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against...