A Few Good Men

Some years ago Rachna Bisht Rawat wrote a book called The Brave, about the 21 men from the armed forces, who were awarded the highest military honour, the Paramveer Chakra....

No Way Out

Of all the characters in the Mahabharat, it is perhaps Abhimanyu who most strongly personifies the futility of war, and the toll it takes on the young and innocent, who are...

Afternoon Is The New Prime Time

Doordarshan has already been there and done that. In the mid-90s, the mandarins at Mandi House came up with an unprecedented move to create an Afternoon Prime Time, wherein...

Phoenix Film Festival 2017

There are so many reasons to love the Phoenix Film Festival: the diverse selection of films, the inclusion of Arizona directors, and the fact that you can see absolutely ev...

Sneha Mathur, A New Role Model

In the early 1990s, at the then nascent MIFF (Mumbai International Festival for Documentary, Animation and Short Films), the package from Canada included a public interest ...

Change Makers: Using Entertainment Education For Social Change

Change Makers: Using Entertainment Education for Social Change

Asian Center for Entertainment Education and its flagship program The Third Eye, in association with ...

Bollywood & Sons, You Think You Can Bully Kangana Ranaut Out Of The Film Industry?

My name is Vinta Nanda and I have been around in the Indian entertainment industry since the mid-1980s. I started off as an assistant director under my idol Nadira Babbar i...

Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several v...

Of Meanies And Queens

What’s a soap opera without a couple of mean women or vamps? Call them what you may, these epitomes of the Wicked Witch from the West or East from the Wizard of Oz, a...