Short Takes 5, Pocket Films – Call for Entries

Into its fifth season,Short Takes 5 is looking for short film talent; contest offers a chance to visit Germany

Mumbai, May, 2015: Pocket F...

What Is The Definition Of Success For A Woman Entrepreneur

I have been working for the past ten years now. Few years in the Philippines, but the major part has been spent in India. Three years ago, when I decided to take the entrep...

George Clooney Set To Run London Marathon 2016 After Losing Bet

Hollywood heartthrob promises to take part in next year’s race if model friend Christy Turlington finishes 26.2-mile course in under four hours George Clooney, the Ho...

Polio Torch In Nigeria, As India Pledges Assistance

With Nigeria now in the eighth month since the last recorded infection of poliovirus, a global End Polio Now Torch has reached the country to help raise funds against the v...

Widowed Before They’re Old Enough To Marry, Life Is A Battle For These Girls

Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

Why The Paris Climate Talks Won’t Be Another Copenhagen

The much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, Sydney University professor Nick Rowley writes that the 2015 Paris climate talks are not li...

What Is The US Government Doing To Prevent The Next Oil Pipeline Disaster?

Spring has finally arrived in Michigan, which for many of us means renewed hope that Enbridge, the company responsible for spilling more than 1 million gallons of tar sands...

SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

Wisconsin Agency Bans Talk of Climate Change

The state treasurer in Wisconsin declined to explain his views about climate change a day after leading the effort to ban a small state agency from talking about rising tem...