A Tako for Berkeley

The annual Berkeley Kite Festival, took place in the eponymous city in California in July, featuring Japanese kites, and hosted workshops to teach the ancient craft of maki...

Looking after our Mothers: Delivery and Depression

A recent study found that almost one in five mothers experience severe post-partum depression, but the illness is hardly known, and even less spoken about in public, which ...

Million Dollar Genius: Is this your moment to change the World?

Ever had a spark, an idea that was your ‘this-is-it’ moment? The light-bulb moment that promised of bringing forth floods of change or revolutionary ideas that ...

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

Anupam Kher’s ‘People’- Lights, Camera, Candour!

Anupam Kher’s ‘People’ is a tiny window or an admirable kinetophone into the lives of our favorite celebrities- be it yesteryear or still rocking- earmark...

Facebook’s New Venture – Video Streaming

Facebook Inc. is set to launch its video-streaming product by the end of the week, which will feature short episodes from series of its content partners.

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So Close To Life

Reading Elizabeth Strout makes you realise just how tough it is to be simple. Her prose is precise to the point of austerity, but she still manages to create richly evocati...

UMEED INDIA: A Coze for a Cause

 “You have got to learn how to vibe alone. You can’t live your life being dependent on other sources of energy. You have the ability to be self-sufficient ...

Absurdist Humor with a tinge of Ambition

Years before American Idol and America’s Got Talent, America had an uncanny amateur talent show called ‘The Gong Show’. Chuck Barris was the creator of th...