A Melee Of March Film Festivals In London

A long overdue celebration of a distant noir scene so good Martin Scorsese ripped it off (with The Departed) but came nowhere near the ice cool original he was aping (Infer...

“Human Rights Activists Working To Achieve Gandhi’s Objective”

Human rights activists were working in post-independent India towards achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of freedom from economic and social slavery, said P.V. Raja...

‘I View World’ film festival makes Delhi debut

Engendered, a trans-national arts and human rights organisation that has been organising the “I View World” film festival in New York for the past several years...

Actress Emma Watson Focused On Gender Equality Issues Los Angeles

The British actress Emma Watson stands today for her willingness to make greater efforts in order to promote gender equality and women''s empowerment, which is why she will...

New York's I View Film Festival Arrives In Delhi. We Can't Wait For These 7 Films

Here's (not just) another film festival.

The first week of March, from the 2nd to 8th, will see Delhi become the venue for I View World, an international film festi...

Why Tagore Would Have Been Branded Anti-National Today

Yes, you read it right. Rabindranath Tagore, the poetic force of our national anthem was against the idea of nation and nationalism. To him, it was merely a machine that in...

Gay Rights Are Human Rights

The human rights of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) people have reached centre stage. Curative petitions have been referred to a Constitution Bench w...

Human Rights To Be Part Of School Curriculum In Karnataka

School students will, in all likelihood, be studying a new chapter from the coming academic year. Heeding to the request of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSH...

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...