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Sustainable Development

Only A Few Recharge The Ground Beneath Their Feet

Till 2006, Sea-Line Co-operative Housing Society, Khar, faced extreme water shortage a dry bore-well, water cuts and soaring water bills. Ten years later, when most of Mumb...

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Alternative Entertainment

Neil Frahm, Woodkid, Robert De Niro And Jr Collaborate On Refugee Aid Project

Artists Nils Frahm, Woodkid and JR have teamed up on a project featuring spoken word from Robert De Niro, starring the actor as an immigrant reflecting on his experience as...

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Gender

This Artist Is Inviting Strangers To Grope Her In Public: Here's Why?

For women around the world, sexual harassment is a daily part of life. Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré is challenging some of those misogonystic norms by showing...

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Hollywood

Danny Glover Hits Out At Racism

The international community must increase its commitment to fighting Afrophobia and discrimination against people of African descent, United Nations Children’s Fund (...

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Human Rights

India Abstains At UN Vote On LGBT Independent Expert

India avoided taking a position on the need to end discrimination based on sexual orientation at the Human Rights Council of the UN, as the Supreme Court is yet to “p...

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Human Rights

UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual...

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Environment

Leaving EU Will Make It Harder For UK To Tackle Climate Change, Says Minister

“While I think the UK’s role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday, our commitment to dealing with it has not...

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Festivals

London Indian Film Festival To Showcase Issue-Based Movies

The seventh Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival will be seen challenging stereotypes of India and South Asia, and will wrestle with some very hard issues. The Indi...

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Gender

Five Young Indian Women Get Real About Masturbation

“Why don’t you just start asking people for their pooping stories?” one slightly peeved commenter posted on Homegrown’s instagram page. Shortly afte...

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Health

India Among Five Countries That Will See High Under-5 Deaths: UN

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Congo and Angola will account for more than half of global under-five deaths by 2030, according to a UN report which said 69 million children belo...

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