Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Mumbai Film Festival: Day 6 Highlights

The world premiere of the impressive ‘Trapped’ and the searing Egyptian film ‘Clash’ Two taut, tense thrillers set in confined spaces were the high ...

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

Singer-songwriter takes award for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’ For more than...

The Law Cannot Be Blind Kaleidoscope

12 Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose in 1957 was a teleplay, converted to a film by the great Sidney Lumet. The play is one of the classics of modern theatre&mda...

Deepa Gahlot: Plays That Stand The Test Of Time

Many plays continue to have a hold over every new generation of audiences and directors, who keep going back to them Not too many plays stand the test of time, but there ar...

These Charts Prove That The World Is Getting Dramatically Better, Not Worse

Tomorrow is Red Nose Day, an annual fundraising campaign organized by public charity Comic Relief Inc. to help alleviate child poverty. In the U.S. alone, one in seven fami...

UN Committee May Again Consider Listing Great Barrier Reef As 'In Danger'

As a condition of UNESCO not listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” in 2015, the World Heritage Committee said Australia needed to report back to the com...

Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct By Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

Australia — Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first...

Reinventing L.A. Street By Street

In major cities, streets are thought of mainly as thoroughfares for cars, not as public space for all to enjoy. The Great Streets Initiative, proposed by Los Angeles Mayor ...