Stars Take A Silent Stand With Malala Yousafzai

On April 17, Malala Yousafzai and Shiza Shahid, co-founder and Free the Children Co-Founder Craig Kielburger in taking a 24-hour ‘silent’ stand to raise awarene...

A Gentleman Rocker

Woodstock and Nandu Bhende are inextricably linked in my memory. When the film was showing at Bombay’s Eros Cinema, teenaged audiences filled show after show for its ...

Most Ratified Human Rights Treaty is 25 Years Old

Augustine J. Veliath invites writers everywhere to own and use this powerful tool, the CRC.

Nearly 25 years ago, the world made a promise to childr...

Marcia Cross And Bill Clinton To Attend Red Ribbon Celebration Concert 2014

In 2012, on the occasion of the Life Ball’s 20th anniversary, the Red Ribbon Celebration Concert presented by NOVOMATIC successfully premièred at the Burg thea...

Empowering Girls Is A Human Right and Part of Sustainable Development

Many of us are shaped by what we experience as a child. In high-income countries, girls have lives often full of possibilities and choices, while for those girls in low- an...

Madhuri voices support for women's empowerment with poems

Madhuri Dixit, who has been busy promoting ‘Gulaab Gang’, a film with the powerful message of ‘women empowerment’, strongly feels about the cause. T...

Stephen Hawking Gives His Voice To Children Of Syria

Professor Stephen Hawking is featured in the latest TV ad by Save the Children giving his voice to the children of Syria. The ad tackles the worst humanitarian crisis of ou...

True Review: Heroes - The Fightback Files on Channel V

Heroes- The Fightback Files is Channel V?s say on reality television. The target audience is definitely the youth; so far the stories are very urban-centric. Who knows when...

Vandana Bahadur: A woman of steel in all-male gram panchayat

On a pleasant Sunday in January this year, as the nation was celebrating the 65th Republic Day, a 32-year-old woman was fending off 100-odd men at a panchayat meeting in Ma...