For Melinda Gates, Birth Control Is Women's Way Out Of Poverty

Melinda Gates has made providing poor women in developing countries access to contraception a mission. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she leads with her hus...

Why Women’s Empowerment Must Start With Land Rights

Property and citizenship are in many ways what define us, and they interact in fascinating ways.
To understand how property ownership strengthens people’s abilit...

Kaleidoscope - Two To Tango

A new play Mr & Mrs Murarilal has a middle-age man and woman - played by SatishKaushik and Meghna Malik - have a romantic rendezvous in a park.

They have a defi...

True Review Movie - Sultan

Cast: Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda, Amit Sadh

Direction: Ali Abbas Zafar

Produced: Aditya Chopra

Written: Ali Abbas Zafar

Genr...

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

Kaleidoscope - An Enduring Romance

A play about marital infidelity has been winning fans over the years, instead of shocking conservative Indians. Bernard Slade’s Tony award-winning romantic comedy Sam...

Music Festivals Add Harmony To Old Morocco

Ah, Morocco. To sit in the courtyard of a boutique riad, sipping mint tea from tiny ornate glasses as a sparrow dips its beak into a fountain strewn with rose petals and cl...

True Review Movie - Udta Punjab

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoo,r Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh

Director: Abhishek Chaubey

Produced: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramadity...

Cinema Under A Bridge Provides Bollywood Escape For The Poor In Delhi

A makeshift cinema hall under a 140-year-old bridge in the Indian capital is allowing poor rickshaw pullers and migrant labourers to escape daily hardship and sweltering he...