Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

My Daughter’s Name Is Jyoti, Call Her By Her Name, Says Dec 16 Rape Victim’s Mother

Three years after a young woman was gang-raped and murdered in the national capital, her mother made an emotional appeal to the people of the country to acknowledge her nam...

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Amitabh Bachchan's Way Towards Women's Empowerment

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has suggested a novel way to promote gender equality by “giving preference to the contingent of female commandos”. The cine ...

Jeffrey Toobin Leads “Book to Screen” Panel at Palm Springs Film Fest

The two-day symposium includes screenings of featured books made into films The return of the second annual two-day symposium, “The Power of Words: Book to Screen,"&n...

Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into anoth...

Aversion To Androgyny

Man’s contempt for that which he cannot understand is well documented throughout recorded history. Witch hunts, crusades, holy wars, inquisitions, imperialism and civ...

7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 201...