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Environment

How Climate Change Battles Are Increasingly Being Fought, And Won, In Court

Around the world courts are stepping in when politicians fail to act, with South Africa’s government the latest to lose a groundbreaking climate lawsuit with judges r...

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Bollywood

Violence In Any Context Not Justified: Swara Bhaskar On Ramjas Row

Bollywood actress Sawara Bhaskar has condemned the Ramjas College incident, saying no amount of explanation can justify violence. Last week, Delhi University's Ramjas Colle...

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Bollywood

Randeep Hooda Advocates Women’s Freedom Of Expression In The Promo Of MTV’s Big F – Watch Video

After tasting success with season one, MTV’s Big F is back. It has got bigger with Bollywood’s hunk Randeep Hooda as the narrator. The first season spoke about ...

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Human Rights

How Mohammed Waris (and others like him) Could Benefit From The New Disability Law In India

Following India’s glittering performance at the 2016 Paralympics (when disabled athletes won four medals, including two golds – our best since 1968), one could ...

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Bollywood

World Cancer Day: Yuvraj Singh, Manisha Koirala, Lisa Ray On Their Fight Against Cancer

Fighters that they are, revival tales of Yuvraj Singh, Manisha Koirala and Lisa Ray set examples for those grappling with cancer, and trying to battle their way out from th...

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Alternative Entertainment

13 Amazing Superheroes Featured in India’s First Amputee Calendar Will Make You Rethink Disability

She is a blade runner, he is a swimmer… she always wanted to play badminton, he loves basketball – and all of these amazing people have battled incredible chal...

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TV

2017: Year Of Change

Star Plus brought in 2017 with a telecast of the Star Screen Awards. The other channels continued with their weekend programming. The fallout of demonetization, I wonder? E...

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Human Rights

Women Farmers In Northern India Battle Tradition, Self-Doubt To Own Land

Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. But s...

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Festivals

It’s time for the Jewish Film Festival

It’s the 18th year of the annual Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, a number that promises luck for movie lovers. The festival, which runs from December 24 to 29 at the ...

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Sustainable Development

200,000 Years Of Staggering Human Population Shown On Animated Map

Last night, during a talk on his new book Raising the Floor, longtime labor leader and current senior fellow at Columbia University Andy Stern told the story of a king and ...

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