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Environment

Earth Hour: What Is It And Why Is It So Important?

On Saturday night, cities across the world will go dark as the globe comes together in the fight against climate change.
The voluntary power cut marks Earth Hour, a gr...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra On Her Charity: No Child Should Be 'Denied A Dream'

You may recognize Priyanka Chopra as the leather-tough FBI recruit from ABC’sQuantico. But, to the girls of The Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education, s...

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Documentary / Shorts

Arun Shourie speaks on - Public discourse in India today, and what we can do about it

Mr Shourie is one of the few great public intellectuals of the country. He talks to and debates at Manthan for the third time.
Those who have heard him earlier at Mant...

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Documentary / Shorts

A movie is a reflection of culture: Mahbub Alam at TEDxSinchon

"A Movie is a Reflection of Culture, From an Immigrant to an Earthling"

Director of Asia Media Culture Factory and FreePort, MahbubAlam is a Korean born in Bangl...

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Human Rights

Agri Can Help Contain Biotic Pressure On Forests

Dilip Gode, executive director of Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VNCS), has been working in the field of community development for the last 25 years. Supporter of Fo...

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Alternative Entertainment

How Female Artistes Are Turbocharging Their Live Shows

Record an album. Take it on tour, faithfully performing singles and favourites interspersed with old hits. Sell records. Repeat. That’s the basic formula.
But, i...

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Bollywood

Sonakshi Sinha Wants Equal Pay For Women In All Professions

"Women are quite vocal about their rights nowadays. And I want the change not only in film industry... Be it sports or business or in any other profession, women should be ...

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Human Rights

Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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Health

Minimizing Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure For India's Poor

The recent adoption of Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations endorsed an earlier agreement on a resolution passed on Dec. 12, 2012, which emphasizes all membe...

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Environment

What Some 'Radical Conservationists' Think

Humans started drawing animals the moment they started killing them. The earliest recorded artworks—paintings on the cave walls of Lascaux in southern France—ar...

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