Trafficked Girl Becomes International Child Rights Activist

An 18-year-old girl, who was trafficked from the remote islands of Sundarbans in West Bengal, is today an international child rights crusader and has been invited twice to ...

Benedict Cumberbatch To Be Honored With Geanco Foundation Global Promise Award

The GEANCO Foundation is holding its annual Hollywood fundraiser on Friday, October 21, at Spectra in the Pacific Design Center to secure additional support for vulnerable ...

'Link Up Public Health With The Climate Change Agenda'

The global health and climate community met in Paris last week to highlight the insidious link between health and climate change and demand more explicit recognition of thi...

'Mohenjo Daro' To Close Locarno International Film Festival

Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker's upcoming action-romance saga "Mohenjo Daro" has been selected as the closing film at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival. 

New Law To Make 26 Week Maternity Compulsory In Private Sector

This has to be the less debated reform from the government, luckily. Henceforth working women in private sector may soon be entitled to 26-week maternity leave under the ne...

True Review Movie - The Secret Life Of Pets

Cast: Louis C.K, Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Jenny Slate, Albert Brooks.

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Meet Sonita, The Afghan Rapper Ending Child Marriage One Song At A Time

When Sonita Alizadeh was 10, her parents tried to marry her off. They were unsuccessful, but when she became a teenager they tried again. What they didn’t know was th...

Rape On Stage: Hard To Stomach But Its Depiction Might Help Society To Wake Up To Rape Culture

“He lifted me off the floor, pulled up my knickers. He spent some time rearranging me I remember. He smoothed my hair back off my face. Be our little secret, baby Lea...

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...