Why Akshay Kumar Is Proud Of This 19-Year-Old Girl From Andheri

Soon after the Nirbhaya incident in Delhi, Akshay Kumar along with Aditya Thackeray had set up the Women's Self Defence Centre (WSDC) to impart free martial training to wom...

India's Tribes And Lower Castes Demand Legal Right To Shelter, Land

For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on l...

An Insight Into India’s Environment And Green Mutineers

Two things stand out in Elemental India: The Natural World at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity, a book by Meera Subramanian, a young American independent journalist of Indi...

She Came, She Acted, She Conquered

“ITI Bratyo Katha”, multilingual, a theatrical montage that captures the whole gamut of emotions through arresting visual imagery. It was part of Bharat Rang Ma...

This App Is Helping Young Iranians Dodge the Morality Police

Anonymous developers in Iran are making people’s lives just a little bit easier with Gershad, an app that helps Iranians identify (and avoid) locations where officers...

Mark Ruffalo Pledges Support For Massive Protest Action

One of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation is coming to Capitol Hill in April of 2016. More than 2,000 individuals from around the country, including Gab...

The Theatre Of Conflict

Last week, Palestinian director Faisal Abu Alhayjaa wrote on Facebook about his house being attacked by the Israeli army, his brother being arrested and dragged out in fron...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

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...