Retroscope - A Veritable Carnival

The 19th edition of CFSI’s festival turned out to be a veritable carnival, a feast of colourful sights and sounds.
Had I not gone, I would have missed the robust...

How This Googler Is Trying To Shake Up Hollywood’s Idea Of Who An ‘Engineer’ Is?

Julie Ann Crommett describes her job as a “tech-and-Hollywood hybrid.”
She’s Google’s entertainment industry educator-in-chief, striving to ban...

Madhuri Proud Of Women's Growing Presence In Filmmaking World

Actress Madhuri Dixit says the filmmaking world in India has come a long way in terms of giving opportunities for women behind the scenes. The popular actress, known f...

How Would Tech Entrepreneurs Recode The Foreign Aid System?

Foreign aid agencies have started to pay more attention to the world of tech entrepreneurs in seeking solutions to some of the biggest challenges on the planet. But what do...

Gamma Rays Can Show Us Which Asteroids Are Worth Mining

An instrument built to take advantage of this ability could one day be common on space probes, and used to find what?s going on compositionally under the surface of an aste...

Women Only Earn Now What Men Did A Decade Ago

Despite an additional quarter of a billion women entering the global workforce since 2006, wage inequality persists, with women only now earning what men did a decade ago, ...

Women Power In Vogue, Say Vidya Balan, Sharmila Tagore.

Dubbing the Kolkata International Film Festival’s (KIFF) endeavour to focus on films helmed by women as “poetic justice”, Bollywood actresses Vidya B...

Geena Davis: Unconscious Bias Is Hurting Women in Hollywood.

Geena Davis is making it her mission to educate Hollywood on gender equality. For years the actor has been very vocal about the dire need for equal gender representati...

Ayushmann Khuranna Supports Thespo.

– Wins top prize on game show Deal or No Deal, contributes entire sum to the festival –

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