Shakira Announces Plans To Build Seventh School In Colombia

Multi-platinum global artist and advocate Shakira, Jordi Cardoner – Vice President of FC Barcelona and its Foundation, and Xavier Bertolin, Educational Director of th...

Censorship By Mob Rule Is Choking Creativity, Says Star CEO Uday Shankar

Because he is now a central figure in India's television business as CEO of Star India, it's easy to forget how alien Uday Shankar was to it on the day he took the job almo...

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. ...

Manthan 2017: India's Largest Street Play Festival Ends After Performances Abroad

Manthan Mahotsav, the largest street play festival in India, finally completed its 10th edition with the ceremony on April 1. The brainchild of Verve, the street play socie...

MTV: Bold, Sensitive

In 1995, Ashish Balram Nagpal, an art connoisseur, made a film called Adha Adhura which was way too progressive. In the film, Ashish Balram Nagpal, a billionaire businessma...

Savage Harvest

The picture of the little Syrian boy washing up dead on a Turkish beach had woken the world up to the tragedy of the country. People who follow the news, know about the hor...

Creating Zika-Proof Mosquitoes Means Rigging Natural Selection

OF THE MANY great things promised by Crispr gene editing technology, the ability to eliminate disease by modifying organisms might just top the list. But doing that require...

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...

Wikimedia Is Moving Toward Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns

Wikimedia editors are considering a move to gender-neutral pronouns as default policy on some of the network's pages in hopes of becoming a more inclusive community. The mo...