A mother and a judge speaks out on section 377

My name is Leila Seth. I am 83 years old. I have been in a long and happy marriage of more than sixty years with my husband Premo, and am the mother of three children. The ...

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

’24’ Exec Producer Tackling Mother Teresa Biopic

“Hotel Rwanda” scribe Keir Pearson has been hired to write the screenplay.

Tony Krantz, the former head of Imagine Entertainment’s television di...

The Masque of Life

Lalitha Lajmi’s latest collection “Masque of Life” is inspired by her belief in the statement “Life is a stage”. Coming from a family of filmm...

Beyonce pens open feminist essay: ‘We need to stop buying into the myth of gender equality’

Her feminist credentials have been questioned of late, what with her ‘Bow down, b**tches’ lyrics and Mrs Carter world tour.

But Beyonce, it seems, is de...

True Review: Yaariyan

Star Rating: ** Stars

YAARIYAN = Y A A W W N I Y A N

When will Bollywood grow up?  Why production houses with huge re...

Crow Tales

Even now as I sit in my bedroom writing this piece, my friendly crow sits perched on the window cawing and daring me to shoo him away. I ignore him, so he hops on to the wi...

Wanted: Fresh, New Ideas For Prime Time In 2014

It was gratifying to see  attempts   being made by channels, production houses,   the writers and directors to try think out of the box and attempt...

How life is improving in India's poorest region

Many villages had no school, no health centre, no ration shop, no approach road, no post office, no telephone, no electricity, and perhaps even no convenient source of drin...