There Is A Life Beyond Cancer: Manisha

Her most memorable and strong female characters in Bombay, Dil Se, and Khamoshi were nearly from two decades back, but real-life heroine Manisha Koirala, who survived cance...

There Is A Life Beyond Cancer: Manisha

Her most memorable and strong female characters in Bombay, Dil Se, and Khamoshi were nearly from two decades back, but real-life heroine Manisha Koirala, who survived cance...

Salman Khan To Celebrate Diwali With Kids From Dharavi.

He will be celebrating it with kids from a band called Dharavi rocks. These kids make music with the help of junk things like buckets, old tins, wooden planks which are was...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Mexico's Morelia Film Festival Builds Warm Community of Cinephiles

Glowing reports from the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
(FICM) inspired me to fly down to Michoacan in late October for the
13th edition. I was not dis...

Halle Berry: It's My Job To Talk About Domestic Violence

The X-Men star has been a victim of domestic abuse in a previous relationship with an unnamed boyfriend and has also witnessed the violence her mother was subject...

It’s Pretty Obvious Not Enough Is Being Done Ahead of the Paris Climate Talks

"We have some substantial reductions that come out of that, and that takes a curve that's been bending and keeps bending it even further," said David Waskow, director of th...

These Three Indian-Origin Women Directors Make Us Proud. Here's Why.

Gurinder Chadha, Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair are part of a list of 100 women directors Hollywood should be hiring.4 Are there enough talented women directors to go around? Th...

Why India Needs Its Writers, Historians, Entertainers, Scientists

Since Pandit Nehru every prime minister has talked about films and music being India’s soft power. We all know of Raj Kapoor’s following in the Russia, east Eur...