Mumbai gets into cinema mode

Think Mumbai and films, and the cult song, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, pops up instantly. Exploring the city’s love affair with the movies is project Cinema and the City that...

Vaccinations essential for children

Chances are, you’ve never had to worry about contracting small pox, tuberculosis or polio, but less than 100 years ago that might not have been the case.

Vacc...

In Sochi gay rights debate, stars stay offstage

The combination appeared custom-made for a grand display of Hollywood activism: a stirring human rights cause and the international platform that is the Winter Olympics. Bu...

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

Bhutan set to plough lone furrow as world's first wholly organic country

Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own anim...

Climate change could be worse than anyone thought

Expressed in the language of science, the paper does not generate a feeling of great alarm: “Equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the ultimate change in global m...

True Review: Dedh Ishqiya

Director: Abhishek Chaubey

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Madhuri Dixit, Arshad Warsi, Huma Qureshi, Vijay Raaz

Rating: 2...