Is Netflix’s ‘Beasts of No Nation’ the Future of Movies?

The award season kicks into high gear this weekend courtesy of a slew of prominent releases. Yet amidst Spielberg’s Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies, Guillermo Del T...

Alia Bhatt Lauds Deepika For Mental Health Initiative

Bollywood’s young star Alia Bhatt has come out to support her senior colleague Deepika Padukone on her “lovely” initiative to spread awareness about menta...

Why India Needs A Universal Immunisation Programme To Boost Its Healthcare.

As India embarks on its promise of universal health coverage (UHC), one should look at the healthcare system in a country like Cuba. Despite limited resources and economic ...

Super' El Nino Looks Set To Ruin The Lives Of Many Of The World's Most Vulnerable People

With peak temperatures expected in January or February, Oxfam America has estimated that the "Super El Ni?o"" could cause at least 10 million of the world's poorest people ...

Drishyam-Sundance Screenwriters Lab, 2016 Calls For Submissions For Their Second Edition

Mumbai, October 10, 2015: Drishyam Films, in partnership with the Sundance Institute, USA, is organising the Drishyam-Sundance Screenwriters...

A Personal Tribute To Smita

That was sometime way back in the seventies. I still remember the two young women in our Tashkent film delegation who were fashionably late for meals, meetings; who giggled...

Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat

Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, and his colleagues found that some birds were adapting to the radioactive environment by producing higher...

Kindle Litfestx Announces National-International Authors Line-Up

Kindle LitFestX announces national-international authors line-up

Mumbai, October 8, 2015: Leapvault, a knowledge media firm that i...

Gender Parity Could Add 60% To India’s GDP By 2025

“The report analysed 15 gender equality indicators for 95 countries home to 93 per cent of the world’s women and 97 per cent of the world’s GDP”. An...