Salman Khan's Big-Hearted Gesture For A Film Set Worker

Known for taking up humanitarian causes, Salman Khan has offered financial help to a film worker struggling to meet the expenses of his 16-year-old daughter's open heart su...

Gulzar, Shabana Azmi, Imtiaz Ali To Take Part In Urdu Fest

Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, ShabanaAzmi, Imtiaz Ali, are set to bring alive Urdu's timeless splendor Bollywood personalities Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Bhatt, Sha...

The Hidden Health Consequences Of How We Design Our Homes

The way we design and build our houses could have a surprising impact on a tiny, but important, aspect of our personal lives: the microscopic organisms that share those hom...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Warm Ocean Temperatures Helped Make 2015 A Record Year For Shark Attacks

Increasingly warm waters around the globe due to climate change and El Niño led to the highest number of shark attacks ever recorded in 2015, according to data relea...

18th San Francisco Independent Film Festival Preview

In human terms, this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) has just reached voting age. Politics may be the subjects o...

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

4 Technologies Innovating Mental Health In 2016

Mental health innovation is long overdue. With telemedicine technologies booming in the health care sector, mental health technology has been lagging behind. The unique nat...

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...