A Seismic Shift In The World Of Film Festivals

Today’s article can be seen as a morality tale for modern times… it contains everything you would want from a classic yarn – heroes, villains, heroes who...

FYI: 25 Women Who Are Shaping The Future Of Music

What will the future of music look like? New York Times Magazine published an ambitious multimedia feature on Thursday that purported to answer that question, and apparentl...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Hyderabad Man Travels Across India For A ‘World Without Borders’

Wearing a long leather jacket and a headscarf which gave the impression of popular revolutionary Che Guevara, Mohammad Akram Firoze was busy in the last-minute preparations...

Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

Sandra Bullock: No Gender Equality In Hollywood

Bullock said the wage gap is just a “by product” of a larger problem, reported People magazine. “I keep saying, ‘Why is it that no one is standing u...

Geena Davis: Kudos To Jennifer Lawrence, But Women In Hollywood Have A Long Way To Go.

The Oscar-winning actress, who runs the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, writes about how women’s representation in Hollywood has remained static since 1946....

Suchitra Sen - Revisiting Icons

Standing at the far end of the room she resembled a house wife in a simple cotton saree. A few gold bangles twinkled musically round her wrist. That plump figure was out of...

How Did Hollywood’s Big Summer Of Female-Driven Movies Measure Up?

At the start of the summer, Peter wrote an article wondering if 2015 was “the summer Hollywood finally bet big on women.” There were plenty of titles to support...