Shahid Review

A wonderfully directed biopic, Shahid talks about the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi who was slain by anti social elements i...

Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

Former Viacom Exec Lead USC Initative

Todd Cunningham has been named Director of the Media Impact Project, an interdisciplinary team of skilled researchers and data specialists at the Norman Lear Center of the ...

Gravity Review

The overview effect is described as the phenomenon astronauts experience when looking back at the earth from space. It is described to inspire an enormous sense of awe at t...

John Day Review

There has emerged a relatively new breed of cinema lately, the corruption thriller. Veering away from the highly dramatized and sensationalized, which is the bread and butt...

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

Annual Report: India 2013

Republic of India

Head of state Pranab Kumar Mukherjee(replaced Pratibha Patil)

Head of government Manmohan Singh

Torture and other ill-treatment, e...

Improve delivery of drugs for cancer treatment

Writer: Emil Venere

 July 8, 2013

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have developed a concept to potential...

Common Genes may Underline Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders

A recent study finds that people with alcohol dependence may be genetically susceptible to eating disorders and vice-versa. In a study of nearly 6,000 adult twins, research...