North Sea Oil Is In Its Death Throes. But The Industry Has One Last Grand Act Left

To witness the beginning or end of a great industry or a way of living isn’t unusual. Each generation has its list of comings and goings – great grandfathers wh...

Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

Akshay Kumar Meets Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Digs 'Two Pit Toilet'!

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar will next be seen in 'Toilet Ek Prem Katha' starring Bhumi Pednekar as the female lead opposite him. The Khiladi Kumar is known for extendi...

Farm Researchers Are Using Military Face-Recognition Software To Inspect Grapes

Somewhere in a field in South Carolina, a robot drives slowly through the dry soil between tall, swaying rows of sorghum: a nutrient-rich grain. The robot scans the stalks ...

The Journey Of NASA’s Smartest Satellite Finally Comes To An End

NASA’S HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL Earth Observing-1 satellite mission was supposed to last just a year. It did that, and then survived 16 more—all the while testing NA...

Kevin Costner, Water Planet Team Up To Advance Sustainable Water Reuse

In 2009, famed actor and environmentalist Kevin Costner and Eric Hoek, then a professor of engineering at UCLA, joined forces to develop a system aimed at cleaning up oil &...

Acting, No Child’s Play

It’s not often that an episode or sequence gets lifted to a level by some outstanding acting. It’s not necessary that the sterling performance is from an adult ...

The Stars Foretell

Lucinda Riley’s The Shadow Sister is like reading two novels in one--it’s a thick tome, and for fans of romance and history, an absorbing read. It is the third ...

Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', It Isn't: Documentary Reveals The Brutal Reality Of Manual Scavenging

Divya Bharathi’s powerful documentary Kakkoos (Toilet), about the prevalence of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu, is very difficult to watch – imagine what it is...