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Retroscope

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

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Environment

Chernobyl's New and Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster's Radioactivity For A Century

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 n...

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Gender

The Forgotten Women Of 1857

Not just Begum Hazrat Mahal and Rani Lakshmibai but dozens of women participated in active fighting against the British. Their stories are largely unrecorded.
April 7 ...

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Trending

Will Work With India To Realise Ambedkar’s Vision: Un

Describing B.R. Ambedkar as a global “icon” for marginalised people, a top UN official has voiced the world body’s commitment to working closely with Indi...

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Hollywood

Alec Baldwin To Host NYU Tisch School Of The Arts 50th Anniversary Gala

NYU Tisch School of the Arts will host its 50th Anniversary Gala, Celebrating the Past/Creating the Future, on Monday, April 4, 2016, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Fred...

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Festivals

Seattle Jewish Film Festival Celebrates Turning 21 With A Nine-Day Party

In April, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival celebrates its 21st anniversary with a nine-day offering of food, live music and the screenings of 25 films focusing on Jewish th...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope : Springtime For Gujarati Theatre

There is a growing demand for experimental work in Gujarati theatre, particularly if a younger audience is to be tapped, the demographic not attracted by the domestic ...

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Human Rights

Safai Karamcharis To Appeal To PM Modi For Eradication Of Manual Scavenging

Next month, a day before Modi visits the birthplace of BabasahebAmbedkar to mark the latter's 125th birth anniversary, a large group of Dalits and safaikaramcharis seeking ...

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Hollywood

George And Amal Clooney Share Stories With Syrian Refugees

Ahead of today’s fifth anniversary of the Syria conflict, the International Rescue Committee
Organized a meeting between Georgeand Amal Clooney and three Syrian...

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Festivals

Hong Kong Film Festival Celebrates 40th Anniversary

“We are not making a fetish of the past,” says Roger Garcia, executive director of the Hong Kong Intl Film Festival Society, and one of the co-founders of the f...

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