Trouble In Paradise

Celeste Ng’s award-winning debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was set in the Seventies, and explored issues of race and alienation of the &lsquo...

Will Peace reach the Valley?

Let's talk about 2017 when Raza Mahmood Khan, 40, A Pakistani peace activist of Aghaz-e-Dosti (Initiation of Friendship) organization was abducted in the eastern city of La...

The Struggle to be ‘YOURSELF’ Online

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is that we compare our ‘behind the scenes’ with everyone else’s highlight reel.”- Steve Furtick

Bangladesh Film Festival 2018 held in Kolkata

This is the first time in recent public memory that a film festival was organized officially between Bangladesh and West Bengal. The Bangladesh Film Festival, which was hel...

Boys for Sale: An Intriguing Documentary about Gay Prostitution in Japan

“If you’d never experienced this, it would be hard to understand.”

That’s the first line of Boys for Sale, a documentary that had its North ...

Summoning, An Anti Facist Metal Band

These are strange days for classic heavy metal. Many godfathers of the movement are in their 60s, some close to 70 years old, including memb...

Achieving Quality Education in India

Education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: centra...

Working Mothers Are Conquerors

A working mother knows the struggle of juggling work and personal life both at the same time. From attending meetings and preparing presenta...