THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of ev...

The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

What Is The Definition Of Success For A Woman Entrepreneur

I have been working for the past ten years now. Few years in the Philippines, but the major part has been spent in India. Three years ago, when I decided to take the entrep...

Widowed Before They’re Old Enough To Marry, Life Is A Battle For These Girls

Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

BOLD, BUT NOT BEAUTIFUL

Three months into 2015, two television channels are show casing varied fare. They have taken it on themselves to give viewers a mix of shows ? from the melodramatic soaps t...

WILL TRADITION EVER TRANSITION

“Even a stopped Watch showscorrect timetwice a day” bespoke an optimist.

It is a matter of contemplation whether the same holds true for the march of ti...

Out With The Old…?

Our society has been in a constant flux for change. There is a greater adaptation afoot in a nation like India because of its many contradictions, complexities and voices. ...

WHEN THEATRE MARRIES CINEMA

As I sat watching a CinePlay screening of the play sometimes, in a preview theatre, I was tad perplexed. Am I watching a play or am I watching a movie? Some months back, I ...