Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

Haryana Bride Sets New Example For Gender Equality, Rides Mare To Her Wedding

In a historic first, in a Haryana village, Mamta, a 25-year-old teacher, broke the stereotype and performed the Ghudchadi by riding a mare on her wedding. The ritual is usu...

Shabana Azmi: Mainstream Hindi cinema witnessing change 

Actress Shabana Azmi has said that mainstream Hindi cinema is witnessing a change from the stereotypical portrayal of mothers and other characters in earlier times. "There ...

True Review Movie - London Has Fallen

Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, AlonMoniAboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell.

Director: BabakNajafi

Pr...

Spread Disrupting Gender Stereotypes

For those who think that gender inequality in the UK is just a pipeline issue that will surely resolve itself in time, What Works may come as quite a shock. As ch...

"Men Are Still Getting Paid More For A Lot Of Garbage" - Tina Fey

It's a good time to be a woman in comedy. The phrase now daily carted out in conversations on gender within the industry; that the post-Bridesmaids, post-Trainwreck world i...

WHO Outlines Ways To Prevent And Mitigate Childhood Hearing Loss

Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new WHO report, "Childhood hearing loss: act now, here’s how", suggests that 60% of th...

Honeybees Suffer Learning Difficulties After Ingesting Tiny Quantities Of Pesticides, Study Finds

Honeybees can suffer from “severe” learning difficulties and memory problems after ingesting tiny quantities of a type of pesticide, new research indicates. Bee...

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...