Arun Shourie speaks on - Public discourse in India today, and what we can do about it

Mr Shourie is one of the few great public intellectuals of the country. He talks to and debates at Manthan for the third time.
Those who have heard him earlier at Mant...

Katie Holmes Playing A Bipolar Poet

The solution to Katie Holmes’s present predicament would appear straightforward.
Can she deliver a performance that will re-ignite her career and go some way to ...

True Review Movie - Eye in the Sky

Cast: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul, Phoebe Fox.

Direction: Gavin Hood.

Produced: Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, David Lancaster,

Written: Guy H...

True Review Movie - Kapoor and Sons (Since 1921)

Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Fawad Khan, Sidharth Malhotra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor, Alia Bhatt

Direction: Shakun Batra

Produced: Hiroo Yash Johar, Yas Rajba...

Chennai And All That Jazz

In the midst of a stage crammed with the usual musical paraphernalia, singers and instruments, aspiring musician and student ManickVennimalai is something of a lone wolf. T...

Kaleidoscope - Gone Girls

A couple of years ago, the mass kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria made headlining news the world over. The trauma of parents not knowing what happened ...

Immunisation: A Powerful Piece Of The Equality Puzzle

In 2016, girls and women are still more likely to miss out when it comes to the advances of global development: going to school, getting well paid for their work or represe...

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s ...

Manchester Film Festival Diaries

After receiving my press pass and having made acquaintance with two film directors from New York and Sydney on my way, I found out that I only had one hour left to get read...