Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...

Hear The Poor Cry

A Very significant document has come out. It is a letter from Pope Francis addressed to everyone on this planet.

Pope Francis is head of the world’s largest r...

Tokyo Film Festival To Showcase ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’

Japan’s genre-spawning robot animation franchise Mobile Suit Gundam will be given a special showcase at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, organizer...

When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

The Indian novel writing tradition is by and large a post colonial phenomenon. Right from one of the first novels in English written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to the ...

Digging Deep: Our Affinity For Rituals

We build off the shoulders of our ancestors. As the shadow of our pastdances against the wall of time, every nuanced movement, every refraction, every proportion contains t...

From The Archive, 31 March 1995: First Ozone Hole Found Over Arctic

Meteorologists and atmospheric chemists have watched in alarm as a similarly explosive mixture to the Antarctic vortex has been assembled in the Arctic For the first time, ...

Florida’s authorities want to wish climate change away

Americans excel at denial. Take climate change. There?s overwhelming scientific evidence that human activity has accelerated climate change. But a staggering 52% of the pop...