Sweden is Country in Focus at KASHISH 2019, South Asia’s largest LGBTQ film festival

KASHISH 2019 to screen 9 Swedish LGBTQ films and also launch music album ‘Rainbow Riots India’

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Poems that celebrate the insect world that is facing extinction

Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She ...

Iranian human rights lawyer jailed for 38 years and sentenced to 148 lashes

Iran has sentenced 55-year-old lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to 148 lashes and 38 years in prison over her defense ...

Its doomsday for thousands of Emperor penguin chicks

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks have effectively drowned overnight after an ice shelf in Antarctica collapsed. Scientists say that since th...

11 years and zero prosecutions: Justice, a forsaken promise in Kashmir

The Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a human rights organisation in the state, has compiled the data of 108 cases of ...

A CUT above the rest…

My friendship with her is deep.

She's a feminist and the most expressive among most whom I know.

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The Taiwan Film Festival premieres in UK

In London, the Taiwan Film Festival UK kicked-off on 3rd of April featuring a classic Taiwanese martial arts movie, a virtual reality (VR) pop-...

Netting to stop bird nesting is nasty and against nature

Bird netting or anti-bird netting is a form of bird pest control. It is a net used to prevent birds from rea...

Who is Teesta Setalvad?

She’s simple, strong and she talks straight. She’s also one of the very few among us, who remains c...