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Sustainable Development

ATM Machine Helps Indian Women Quietly Report Rape Without Going To The Police

In December, a 16-year-old girl in Calcutta was burned alive. Authorities believe she was targeted as punishment for reporting her gang-rape to the police. Two months earli...

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Health

Breastfeeding linked with mental health

Mothers who successfully breastfeed baby less likely to get postnatal depression new mothers who successfully breastfeed their babies are less likely to get postnatal depre...

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Sustainable Development

Does India need a bank for women?

India’s government thinks so. Plans for such a bank – the first state-run one of its kind in India – were announced in the annual budget. Finance Minister...

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Movies

True Review: Raja Natwarlal

Critic’s ratings: 2.5 stars

Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay Menon, Humaima Malick, Deepak Tijori.

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Thought Factory

An Encounter With Sir Richard

When I met Richard Attenborough after a press conference on a Sunday morning at Bandra’s Sea rock Hotel, he was wearing a turquoise blue kurta and fawn trousers, a wi...

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Sustainable Development

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

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Movies

True Review: The Expendables 3

Critics Rating: 2 Stars

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundren, Randy Cou...

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Environment

Ebola and Climate Change: Are Humans Responsible for the Severity of the Current Outbreak?

The army base, a cut of cleared land amidst a thick, verdant, unnamed jungle, is filled with soldiers and locals, dead or dying of a mystery disease. A pile of bodies burns...

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Movies

True Review: Singham Returns

Critics Rating: 2 Star*

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Dayanand Chandrashekhar Shetty, Anupam Kher, Amole Gupte

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Sustainable Development

At 240 million, India has a third of child marriages in the world

A recent United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) report said 720 million women around the world, alive today, were married before 18 years compared to 156 million men...

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