Sesame Street Has A New Muppet In Afghanistan Who Promotes Girls Rights

Zari – whose name means “shimmering” in the Dari and Pashto languages – has been tasked with a mission to promote female empowerment. She made her d...

Throwback Movie: The Big City - Satyajit Ray

There’s something galvanic about a filmmaker going home to work, whether its Howard Hawks telling a story based on his grandfather in “Come and Get It” or...

6 Reasons Why You Should Take Up Volunteering Right Away

After having volunteered for several events and organizations, Jayashri Ramesh Sundaram feels that volunteering is not just about social work with no returns. It is somethi...

How Women Silently Campaign For Their Share Of Water

Many women in Mokhadatehsil of Maharashtra have donned the role of social workers and they are visiting one village after the other, silently campaigning for their rightful...

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...

Kishore Fights Poverty And Polio To Become A Leading Gym Instructor

A dynamic and highly energetic gym trainer, V. M. Kishore Kumar personifies the example of victory over nature’s predicament. Read the story of how this young man wor...

All Hail The Japanese Film Festival

There are a lot reasons to celebrate the Japanese Film Festival. Co-presented with access cinema, the JFF is among the few that takes place throughout the country. They are...

Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same ...

Retroscope - No Ordinary Mother

The doorbell rang this afternoon- an odd time for it to ring. I was not expecting guests. I opened to find Nazma standing outside.

"You never call me these days!" S...