Cannes Film Review: ‘Masaan’

A ‘Promising Future’ prize in Cannes should help this narratively challenged drama of two families trapped in the strictures of India’s rigid caste system...

Entering The Mind Of My Rapist: An Exercise In Extreme Empathy

The essential dilemma after a date rape is also the essential dilemma before the novelist: Who’s in charge of the narrative, and what is his or her perspective? My ra...

MILESTONES, MAHA EPISODES AND TWISTS

Code Red?s 100 episode milestone is worth taking note of. Pitched against the 10 pm to 11 pm saas-bahu sagas, the channel stuck its ground and kept it going. While any othe...

Disney TV Show to Inspire Young Girls to Pursue a Career in Science

Disney, along with Google and Nasa, is working on a new TV show that will inspire young girls to pursue a career in science and technology. According to a Washington Post r...

A 10,000-Year-Old Ice Shelf in Antarctica Is Disintegrating

What’s left of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, at least 10,000 years old and 27 times the size of Manhattan, is weakening quickly and likely to disintegrate wi...

When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

The Indian novel writing tradition is by and large a post colonial phenomenon. Right from one of the first novels in English written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to the ...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of ev...

Of Right Words And Persistent Images

‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, o...