World Report 2016: ‘Politics Of Fear’ Threatens Rights

In the 659-page World Report 2016, its 26th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries. In his introductory essay, Executive Direc...

What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty

IF social scientists and policy makers have learned anything about how to help the world’s poorest people, it’s not to trust our intuitions or anecdotal evidenc...

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

Film Festivals Can Compete With Smartphones: Berlinale Chief

Film festivals still have a bright future in a world in which more audiences watch movies and television series on smaller and smaller devices, the veteran head of Germany'...

Bimal Roy Memorial Presents A Screening Of Masaan (Crematorium).

AWARDED THE BIMAL ROY MEMORIAL 2016 HONOUR FOR BEST EMERGING DIRECTOR
6th February, 2016 ,6 pm at
St. Paul’s M...

True Review Movie - Hindi - Saala Khadoos

Cast: R. Madhwan, Ritika Singh, MumtazSorcar

Direction: Sudhakongara Prasad

Produced: Rajkumar Hirani, Siddhant Roy Kapoor

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Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

The End of Big Data

Personal data is anything but personal. Our phones and televisions listen in on us; the most powerful corporations in the world trade in consumer tics, browsing histories, ...

Swing Dancing Is Back, In Documentary Form

Of all the errant bits of ’90s nostalgia that have gotten stuck in the world’s pop-cultural teeth in recent years, one that has yet to lodge itself between our ...