Aamchi Cinema: Diversity In Unity

How does a simple family in a traditional village grapple with a transgender child and the concomitant sexuality and identity crises? Suhaas Bhosale’s Koti casts a se...

MAMI Film Festival To Award ‘Best Film On Gender Equality’

MAMI has instituted an award for 'Best Film on Gender Equality' to honour sensitive depiction of women in cinema. The JIO MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival has instituted an a...

Gender Parity Initiative Alters Views On What Is Masculine: ‘A Man Is Not A Man If He Beats His Wife’

On May 9, when Yakub Kurne got his sister Tasneem married at 18, it was a transformation for the Muslims in Motyal, a sleepy village in Maharashtra. Until a few years ago, ...

Glenn Close Donates To Mental Health Association Of Central Florida

Glenn Close has donated $75,000 to the Mental Health Association of Central Florida. The six-time Oscar winner made the donation on Thursday, prior to speaking at the organ...

A Solar-Powered Plane Has Completed The First Ever Trans-Atlantic Flight

Setting off from New York at 2:30 AM on June 20, 2016, pilot Bertrand Piccard spent a total of 71 hours and 8 minutes in the air, flying at 28,000 feet and covering a dista...

Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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...