Ludo Mania On Cell Phones For The Common Man

Ludo mania has swept Mumbai and is spreading to the small towns of northern India, mainly Bihar, U.P. and Jharkhand.

The unusual asp...

Sustainable Development in Capitalistic and Modern Societies

It’s no secret that economic growth and energy have come at the cost of environmental degradation. In answer to this challenge, sustai...

Meet the ‘Actor’ in Director Goutam Ghose

“I do not desire to act at all, though I agreed to act in Majidi's film ‘Beyond the Clouds’”. Goutam Ghose tells Jyothi Venkatesh.
The internat...

Hit and Flops 2017

There were less number of winners and more losers at the box office this year since the overall 2017 number is still about 3% behind last ye...

Cold War and Cool Jazz

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.” ― Louis Armstrong

Americ...

KASHISH and Queerythm to organize LGBTQ film festival in Kerala

Kerala's youngest LGBTQ group Queerythm and KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia's biggest LGBTQ film festival, is o...

Labour Laws for Children

Human Rights Watch published a dispatch last Wednesday, reporting the establishing of a new policy, that prohibits children under the age of 18 from working with green toba...

Geena Davis on Empowering Women in the Entertainment Industry

There has been a significant increase in people, especially celebrities opening up to sexual harassment, all thanks to Harvey Weinstein. Then we have the allegations agains...

The Right to Death

The Supreme Court on Tuesday opposed the notion of allowing patients to create a 'living will'. Known as an 'advanced medical directive' in legal jargon, the bill is meant ...