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Sustainable Development

This App Helps Citizens Report Deadly Mosquito Sightings

For the past two years, Spanish citizens have been using an app dubbed ‘Mosquito Alert’ to report sightings and breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus, or Tiger m...

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Hollywood

Elton John And Desmond Tutu Pen Op-Ed On Making Aids History

Elton John and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu penned an op-ed published on CNN.com about the United Nations’ 2016 High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS to be held this ...

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Gender

Alcohol Isn’t The Cause Of Campus Sexual Assault. Men Are.

Bystanders who intervene, not less booze, would help prevent it. Ask Brock Turner or his father what made him sexually assault an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on the...

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Health

Natural Births: Bringing Back The Midwife

Birthing centres like BirthVillage in Kochi are part of a growing trend Dusk-tinted light filters in through the reed curtains covering the large windows of the birthing ro...

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Festivals

The Adventure Travel Film Festival

Travel and adventure shows, films, documentaries. Whichever of the three, there are countless ones of differing quality on our screens today. However, a largely unknown fac...

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Bollywood

Rohit Shetty To Sponsor Treatment Of 10 Cancer-Afflicted Children

Best known for blowing up cars and adrenaline-pumping fight scenes in his films, Rohit Shetty's oeuvre belies his sensitivity. The filmmaker, we hear, has adopted 10 cancer...

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Gender

How Live Storytelling Can Help Women Around The World To Find Their Voices

“These are stories that nobody gets to tell in the mainstream media … the quiet, desperate stories of everyday lives” Sarah Austin Jenness of The Moth ha...

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Health

One Indian Woman Dies Every 5 Minutes From Postpartum Hemorrhage

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, of the 529,000 maternal deaths occurring every year, 136,000 or 25.7 per cent take place in India (one Indian woman dies...

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Environment

Harnessing Local Pride For Global Conservation

The toughest problems to solve are the ones that are hard to detect and require humans to change their behavior. That puts conservation at the top of the list. According to...

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Festivals

Life Through A Different Lens: Moscow's Jewish Film Festival

Tomorrow is opening night of the Moscow Jewish Film Festival, a cultural event offering Muscovites the chance to become acquainted with the world of Jewish professional cin...

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