UN Urges Action On Sustainable Development To Create Pathways For Global 'Transformation'

21 April 2016 – The President of the United Nations General Assembly today called on the international community to
take action on the new UN sustainable develo...

Women From Ages Of 60 To 90 Are Learning ABC's At School For Grannies

With the aim of reaching 100% literacy, this village has started a school for its uneducated grandmothers.
A school that is open for only two hours a day, where the un...

Kaleidoscope : The Family Plot

Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s most popular writers, and has noted in his several visits to India that even the pirates love to flog his books. The Indian editi...

Trans Performance Artiste Fights Invisible Oppressor, But Who?

On Saturday evening, gallery guides at Los Angeles museum The Broad ushered visitors, in groups of 15, down a set of stairs to the empty museum parking lot, where they were...

Retroscope - No Ordinary Mother

The doorbell rang this afternoon- an odd time for it to ring. I was not expecting guests. I opened to find Nazma standing outside.

"You never call me these days!" S...

Cleveland International Film Festival 2016: "Parched" A Beautiful Portrait Of Subjugated Women In India

Ohio -- From the beautifully-framed opening shot, "Parched" rolls out a lush, lovely portrait of four women struggling to survive in a patriarchal town in India.You see, th...

Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival To Open With Anna Gunn’s ‘Equity’

The second edition of Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival will open May 3 with Wall Street drama “Equity,” starring Anna Gunn, Alysia Reiner and Sarah ...

This Year's Film Festival Slims Down ... To 180 Movies

The 35th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival opens Thursday with a new screening philosophy, some new venues and a host of new activities.
One constant of...

What's On At The Spanish Film Festival 2016 In Canberra

It wasn't that long ago, well maybe it was 20 years, when for many of us moviegoers Spanish cinema was synonymous with the work of Pedro Almodovar. And vice versa. His film...