Who wants to be a Millionaire? – Vinod Pande

We think we know them well. However, when you venture out to ask them questions you thought you had all the answers for, like I did, you discov...

Need for Clear and Concrete Mechanisms for reducing Air Pollution

According to the World Health Organization, India has nine of the world’s 10 most polluted cities, with hazardous urban smoke. ...

The Need of the Hour: Health and Education of Children

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was held on 23 January 2018, in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF is a global political get-t...

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...

Autumn of The Matriarch

Lillette Dubey’s Primetime Theatre Company completed 25 years in 2016, and the celebrations continue, with a series of new plays.

When she set up her group in...

The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment

This past Thursday was Thanksgiving. A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621. The tales of pilgrims from the M...

In Winter, Mumbai Uses More Power For Acs Than Any Other Indian Metro: Study

MUMBAI: The Indian winter appears to be the warmest in Mumbai going by the pattern of electricity consumption through air conditioners and refrigerators. A study by The Ene...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

A Personal Tribute To Smita

That was sometime way back in the seventies. I still remember the two young women in our Tashkent film delegation who were fashionably late for meals, meetings; who giggled...