Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Rating: 3 stars

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly

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Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

Reaching out beyond the screen

Television has ceased to be the idiot box, it is now more than just a medium of entertainment; we cannot override it as a medium of social influence.  Anita, a 38 year...

SALMA

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Poignant portrait of well-known Indian Tamil poet Salma. She spent twenty-five years of her life behind closed doors, at first in her e...

FORBIDDEN VOICES

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Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But influential cyber feminists from Cuba, China and Iran keep blogging about the...

ONE DAY AFTER PEACE

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An Israeli mother’s emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in an ambush on Israeli po...

EVEN A BIRD NEEDS A NEST

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A group of women in post-communist Cambodia fight an uphill battle against forced evictions. The government grants land concessions to ...

WASTELAND – SO THAT NO ONE BECOMES AWARE OF IT

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About 40,000 refugees, including families with children, live sometimes about more than ten years in camps throughout Germany, usually ver...

SIT IN OPPOSITION OR LET IT HANG ?

A paradigm shift taking place in Indian Politics reflects that a time has come for the politician to deliver what has been promised to the voter, or else he will be shown t...