Only 37% Of Over 10,000 Pay-To-Use Toilets In Mumbai Are For Women’

Few things in life are as compelling as a full bladder. Last month, it made 22-year-old Laxmi Pandit plead, bargain and fight with the hard-nosed attendant of a toilet near...

At This Home For Juveniles, Inmates Get Training In Gender Sensitivity And More

AT A time when the country recalls the ghastly December 16 rape case in New Delhi and people are debating over whether or not the juvenile involved in the crime should have...

Changing The World Frame By Frame: Syrian Teen Wins Two Awards For Her Short Film

Sixteen-year-old Wala’a is haunted by a terrifying memory—being assaulted by a soldier as she fled the war in Syria. One of more than 700,000 refugees...

True Review – Television This Week- Yamraj’s Climate Change Mission

The makers of Yam Hai Hum couldn?t have timed their current series of episodes better. The Paris Summit on Global Warming and climate change taking the front seat on the ne...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

A Personal Tribute To Smita

That was sometime way back in the seventies. I still remember the two young women in our Tashkent film delegation who were fashionably late for meals, meetings; who giggled...

‘Vidya, Deepika, Kangana, Anushka And I Stand Against Disparity Shown Towards Male And Female Actors’ – Priyanka Chopra.

Female actors in Bollywood have time and again spoken about disparity shown against male and female actors in the industry. Not only in terms of pay, even when it comes to ...

How Mobile Phones Are Enabling Quality Maternal And Child Healthcare

In 1996, Aparna Hegde was a resident doctor at Sion Hospital, one of Mumbai?s largest public health facilities, when a woman who had just delivered a baby was rushed into e...