Short Takes 5, Pocket Films – Call for Entries

Into its fifth season,Short Takes 5 is looking for short film talent; contest offers a chance to visit Germany

Mumbai, May, 2015: Pocket F...

7 Things We’ve Learned About Earth Since The Last Earth Day

A whole lot has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970.

Back then, the most urgent environmental problems facing the United States were air and water pollution. ...

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

WHEN THEATRE MARRIES CINEMA

As I sat watching a CinePlay screening of the play sometimes, in a preview theatre, I was tad perplexed. Am I watching a play or am I watching a movie? Some months back, I ...

N Kukunoor, S Mishra, S Suri Jury For Love Ke Side Effect

Mumbai, March 2015: The upcoming short film contest,Gionee presents Love Ke Side Effects’ organised by Pocket Films and powered by Fun On Go, boasts ...

14th World Congress on Public Health held in Kolkata

Kolkata recently hosted the 14th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH) at the city’s Science City auditorium. Kolkata last hosted the Congress in 1981.

The C...

How to Make the Sustainable Development Goals Work

The two of us met for the first time more than a decade ago, in 2003, in the small rural village of Momemo, an hour?s drive and a world away from the urban bustle of Maputo...

Negotiating Identity In The Changing Times

“The real world is simply too terrible to admit. It tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this, mak...