MANNA DEY

It was in late 1996 that I started the Bimal Roy Memorial with a view to honour my father, whose films continued to thrill audiences, and still do. Very few individuals fro...

Smartphone Could Help Detect Air Pollution

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost method of detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a significant ai...

Kindle Litfestx Attracting High Viewership

Mumbai, October 26, 2015: The first virtual literary festival, Kindle LitFestX happening from October 23 to November 01 in India, is creating a wind in the...

WHO Experts Signal Victory Over One Of Three Polio Strains

GENEVA: The world should stop vaccinating children against one of the three strains of the crippling polio virus as part of a drive to eradicate the disease once and for al...

Simple Ways Tech Companies Can Fight Gender Inequality

With Intel’s recent move to promote better hiring practices, many tech companies have begun to take a harder look at issues of diversity in the workplace. At the VMwo...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

Networks And Audiences Get Real About Documentaries.

Pardon the generalization, but it wasn’t long ago that you could walk into a theater showing a documentary and the seats would be filled mainly with academics and old...

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...

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

We were hoping to avoid this, and did our damdest for that, but unfortunately, in the face of demeaning obduracy, we f...