Britney Spears Designed New Fragrance To Empower Women

Singer Britney Spears says that her latest perfume Fantasy makes women feel "empowered, flirtatious and sexy". Spears says she loves making new scents because she believes ...

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...

Beauty May Be In The Eyes Of The Beholder, But It's More Than Skin Deep

On March 8, Mumbai will host an unusual pageant: a beauty contest, but one where all the participants live with 100% visual disability. The preparations for Princess India ...

Screen To Stage

Sometimes all it takes is a dream. Feroz Abbas Khan wanted to do a play based on the K. Asif classic Mughal-e-Azam for years. Finally the universe conspired and the product...

Amma Only, On Prime Time

Never have Indian television channels been subjected to the frenetic pace, frenzied reporting and commentating as they all did on Tuesday, December 6 when J. Jayalalitha wa...

A Comic Heroine That’s Fighting The Evil Skin Whitening Industry

India’s beauty industry thrives on the country’s ugly obsession with fair complexions and skin lightening products. Prejudice against darker skinned people, esp...

More young people are watching Planet Earth 2 than The X Factor

It seems the nation’s younger citizens are finally favouring the beauty of the natural world over the wailing of amateur singers.

The BBC has confirmed ...

Sundance 2017 Announces New Frontier Lineup, Including 22 VR Experiences and 11 New Installations

As the Sundance Film Festival’s groundbreaking and technology-facing New Frontier section kicks off its second decade in existence, the 2017 edition of the section bo...

The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment

This past Thursday was Thanksgiving. A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621. The tales of pilgrims from the M...