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Mumbai Film Festival’s Anupama Chopra On Programming And Censorship

The international film-festival ecosystem is a varied one. On one end, you have the big players: splashy festivals like Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Venice that attract ma...

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Revolutionary New Comic Features Real-Life Acid Attack Survivors; This Is ‘Priya’s Mirror’

Two years ago, New York-based artist Ram Devineni introduced us to a new brand of comic book superheroes–one that doesn’t wear capes or have formidable pow...

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Akshay Kumar Helps Penniless Producer To Get A Kidney Transplant

Akshay Kumar offered to help Ravi Shrivastava his first producer who offered the movie Dwarpaal to Akshay Kumar during his days of struggle.Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, wh...

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Staples And Katy Perry Bring Learning To Life For Thousands Of Students Nationwide

Staples and global superstar Katy Perry teamed up and helped hundreds of teachers bring learning to life through the 2016 Staples for Students program, which fulfilled $1 m...

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Documentary Film-Makers Face Decades In Prison For Taping Oil Pipeline Protests

Two documentary film-makers are facing decades in prison for recording US oil pipeline protests, with serious felony charges that first amendment advocates say are part of ...

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The Sound Of Junk – Dharavi’s Rag Picking Children Are Making Music Out Of The Trash They Collect

Every day, Mumbai sees – yet ignores – thousands of rag-pickers who go about collecting trash from beaches, railway platforms, and other public places. This hug...

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Snakes In The Living Room!

Snakes In The Living Room!I can’t believe this that our desi news channels have no clue about geographic locations in

various cities. Take for example, early ...

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Femme Very Fatale

There have been dangerous women in popular fiction, a few serial killers too, but Jodie Danforth is in a class apart. It is a generalisation, perhaps unfair, that women are...

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The Story Of Sobita Tamuli, The Woman Who Brought Entrepreneurship To Her Small Village In Assam

Back in 2002, SobitaTamuli was an 18-year-old married girl with little formal education, living in a small village in Assam. Today, she is a successful entrepreneur heading...

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A Mother’s Nightmare That Is Bihar

One factor that is totally ignored in all deliberations on women’s empowerment is the role of high quality healthcare. Education, jobs and bank accounts remain the th...

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