Exploration of gender, a key theme on this year’s Wellcome Book Prize shortlist

On embracing the 10th anniversary of the Wellcome Book Prize 2019, the best new books that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and i...

Books to read in the New Year

Here is a list of must-read fiction and non-fiction coming out in the year 2019.

Non-Fiction – 2019

The very first on the list stands...

2018: The Year of Highest Grossing Documentaries

2018 seems to be the year of documentaries. The winner of the top documentary prize at the 90th Academy Awards,...

Exceptional and Soul-stirring Films at the 5th Illuminate Film Festival

For most people, films are the idea of entertainment. Be it rich or poor to educated and uneducated, films infl...

I will always be an art filmmaker - Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

Cinema in the time of spiralling budgets is not his scene. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, the 41-year-old outspoken di...

Want to punish Women with Power… Call them Witches!

Powerful women have been cast as witches in the past and this phenomenon continues to exist in the present time...

Rise: Art Sells, Are You Buying?

Latterly, Hadi Eldebek’s compelling talk ‘Why Must Artists be Poor’ canvassed a significant yet easily imperceptible question...

Five Most Inspirational Persons and the Books they Suggest You Read

Many of the brightest minds in technology, entertainment, business, and philanthropy have said they owe their success to reading. Ever wonde...

Television and beyond

The recent BARC ratings place KBC at Numero Uno position amidst a fierce ratings war in a multi-channel environment…but it wasn’t always like this.

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