Killing Joy With Gender Bias

HYDERABAD: Achyuta Rao, president, Andhra Pradesh Balala Hakkula Sangham (APBSH), was aghast when he saw children fighting over a chocolate. One little boy dismissed a pink...

Most Toy Adverts Are ‘Sexist’ And Show ‘Narrow And Limiting’ Gender Stereotypes, Study Warns

The majority of adverts for children’s toys  are “sexist” and reinforce “narrow and limiting” gender stereotypes according...

Perfecting Pixar’s Movies Takes A Crazy Amount Of Research.

IT WOULD BE so easy to think of Pixar as all play and no work. After all, the Disney-owned studio churns out happy-ending tales with lovable bugs, toys, and race cars for p...

20 Must Watch Films At Jagran Film Festival

Beginning with ‘Standing Tall’ directed by Emanuelle Bercot which opened the Cannes Film Festival this year, the 6th edition of Jagran Film Festival presents an...

Opening Up The World Of Robotics: ‘The Internet Of Toys’

The Hybrid Group is focusing on how to get everyone programming for the “internet of things” using open source technology. When I called up Evans, he explained ...

Target Rejects Gender Labels For Toy Sections After Consumer Outcry

Target is abandoning a practice that it believes sends the wrong message to its customers — and some of them are threatening to stop shopping at the retail chain as a...

Your Children’s Toys Are Perpetuating Gender Discrimination

In my work in the media and in my role as a mother of both a young man and woman, I have been regularly stunned at how girls are routinely labeled, classified, and shaped i...

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

Critics rating: 2 stars

Cast: Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Oaklee Pendergast, Helen Mc...