Cannes in Support of Films made by Dissident Directors

The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Asghar Farhadi's psych...

All the World’s a Stage, Not in Mumbai Theatre at Least

Frankly, theatre didn’t prove to be that long-cherished platform to tell a story which was of some value to me – a story about a pre-teen boy who was saved from...

Life Sentence- A Deurmekaar Seriocomic

When life gives you lemons what do you do next? Squeeze it o’ not, the answer is entirely subject to individual perspectives and their...

Pursuit of Happiness

Money can't buy love, compatibility or happiness, as a young woman in Makrand Deshpande's play, Sir Sir Sarla discovers for herself.

The professor she admires and l...

Achieving Quality Education in India

Education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: centra...

Project Sea Horse: Japan's Idea to Exploit Ocean's Power

The common image of Japan abroad is of a high-tech country — a place of robots and flashing neon lights and the latest beeping gadgets...

Casablanca: The Most Quoted Movie of all Times

It’s still the same old story. Seventy-five years after it was released, Casablanca (1942) remains one of the world’s best-loved films and one of my favourite f...

Fun for fans but nowhere close to Perfect

Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J. K. Simmons

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A Heroine For Our Times

The Girl With The DragonTattoo was a huge success story in publishing, that needs more stars like Lisbeth Salander. Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson created a her...