Sex and sensibility: Bollywood erotica in the time of Censor curbs

From Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978), Utsav (1984), Anubhav (1986) and Kama Sutra (1996) to the more recent Jism (2003) and Murder (2004), you can hardly call erotica novel i...

Millions at risk from rapid sea rise in Sundarbans

The tiny hut sculpted out of mud at the edge of the sea is barely large enough for Bokul Mondol and his family to lie down. The water has taken everything else from them, a...

Rising from the shadow of abuse

For the last one year — along with the usual urban viewers who come to attend shows of The Vagina Monologues (a critically-acclaimed production by noted playwright Ev...

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that green...

New safety rules for offshore Arctic drilling proposed to avoid repeat of Shell disaster

US officials want to make sure companies can handle a blow-out in remote and icy conditions – without inflicting an environmental disaster The Obama administration pr...

Fight climate change, make money

Though the public rarely notices, businesses succeed because of their planning. To see what is happening now, while positioning yourself to make the most of the future, is ...

Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter

University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from $36bn endowment Some of Harvard’s m...

Wild

Critics rating:  2.5 Stars

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski

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Is A Number Crunching Agency Needed?

Vinta Nanda, Filmmaker-

Box office figures should be accurate. Yes, Bollywood should take help of agencies like Rentrak a...