Transgender Community hopes for a brighter future in 2018

The transgender community is incredibly diverse. Some transgender people identify as male or female, and some identity as genderqueer, non-b...

Jessica Chastain on being a Spokesperson for Women in Film

An enormous talent onscreen, Jessica Chastain has become a fierce advocate for women’s rights offscreen as well. Whether on her personal Twitter account or...

Feminism and High Art

In London Contemporary Music Festival this year, among other things, one can take the chance to experience a fairly different sort of music- background music from a pornogr...

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...

Aeschylus’s millennia old play gets an epic adaptation through The Suppliant Women

Written 2,500 years ago, The Suppliant Women is one of the world’s oldest plays which speaks to us through the ages with startling resonance for our troubled times. I...

265 Million Children are working around the World this Universal Children's Week 2017

The International Labour Organisation states in its latest World Report on Child Labour (2013) that there are around 265 million working children in the world which is almo...

Irfan and Parvathy strike the right chord with QQS

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Parvathy, Neha Dhupia, Luke Kenny, Isha Sherwani, Pushtiie Shakti Siddharth Menon

Direction: Tanuja Chandra

Producer: Zee Studios, Jar Pi...

Brief Encounters

Female bonding is rare in Bollywood movies, so a play about strangers meeting in a railway waiting room on a stormy night has been doing well in multiple languages.  Read More

#MeToo – Do Sexual Harassers keep Good Science from Happening?

 Boston University (BU) is investigating sexual harassment complaints made against a prominent Antarctic geologist by two of his former graduate students. The women al...