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Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Why Is India Dragging Its Heels Over The Criminalisation Of Marital Rape?

When I started looking into the issue of marital rape in India, I soon realised how difficult it would be to get anyone to talk. It is a touchy subject, because there is st...

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High male bias both in India and US: Gender activist Vivian Huelgo

A prominent American gender activist says India and the United States face similar kinds of challenges in dealing with gender violence as both countries have an inherent st...

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Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi Urge Fans To Donate Organs.

Veteran actress and social activist Shabana Azmi and her husband poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar have urged people to sign up for organ donation. Shabana took to micro-blogging ...

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Ashoke Pandit Speaks About The Forth coming IFTDA Elections

While August 15 holds prime importance to the whole of India, there is one more day this year which holds utmost importance to the TV and film fraternity. And that day is A...

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Greenpeace Temporarily Blockades A Shell Vessel, As The Oil Major Begins Drilling In The Arctic.

The icebreaker that's key to Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic is heading back north after authorities broke a dramatic blockade on Friday by environmentalists i...

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Angelina Jolie To Direct An Unflinching Portrayal Of War Through The Eyes Of A Child.

Angelina Jolie Pitt will direct an adaptation of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, a harrowing and poignant memoir from Cambodian author and hu...

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Thousands Of Animals Have Been Saved In Nepal As Mass Slaughter Is Cancelled

A festival in Nepal celebrating the world’s largest animal sacrifice was canceled on Tuesday in a landmark victory for activists. The Gadhimai Temple Trust said the e...

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Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...

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Of A Biased Media, Yakub Memon And Baby Crows!

So as I walked into the elevator that would take me to my apartment on the 7th floor after work last evening, in walked with me a lady well over 75 years of age.

I ...

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