Washington set to host South Asian Film Festival

September 8th -10th, 2017 will see the annual Washington DC South Asian Film Festival 2017 kick off at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD.

Launched by Caesar Produ...

So Close To Life

Reading Elizabeth Strout makes you realise just how tough it is to be simple. Her prose is precise to the point of austerity, but she still manages to create richly evocati...

Lipstick Under My Burkha

There’s always been a Rosy within every girl who believes it’s acceptable sometimes to go against the norms. Lipstick Under My Burkha is a perfect illustration ...

KASHISH Festival Travels To Ahmedabad

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ film festival, will screen a diverse range of LGBTQ films at IIM Ahmedabad in a day-long ...

Cowboys, 'Injuns' and Bones

We associate the American Wild West with the hundreds of Westerns about cowboys and Red Indians. But life was tough for early settlers and gold rush prospectors. The native...

We Need More Truth In Our Talk About Sanitation

Sopan Joshi’s “Jal Thal Mal” is a book in Hindi about the invisible connections that sustain us in our life on the planet. It shows how sanitation is not ...

Catastrophe' Makes Male Vulnerability Funny

The image of a crying man is a misandrist's dream. On Amazon's Catastrophe, however, it's an opportunity for empathetic laughs, and it might elicit some tears from the audi...

Devious Heroines

Female protagonists in novels are getting to be increasingly dangerous; and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl seems to have triggered off a trend of the nasty heroine. Sarah ...

Here Are 12 African Game Changers You Need To Know

Who is changing the game in Africa? That’s the question NewAfricanWoman magazine put to the public as they prepared to host the New African Woman Awards 2017 – ...