Ghalib On Canvas

Veteran Pakistani artist Shahid Rassam is in love with Mirza Ghalib’s writings, his interpretation of life and his vision reflected in what the subcontinent is experi...

Preity ZintaTo Auction Her Wedding Photos For Charity

Bollywood actress PreityZinta has been in the news recently after reports emerged that she was tying the knot to finace Gene Goodenough later this mont It is learnt that th...

Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars

Can any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.
In Germany, it is n...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...

Engineers Devise A Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees

Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of...

Ben Stiller Visits Refugees With UNHCR.

Ben’s private briefing, organised by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, brought him face to face with three families who had lost everything because of war. With their liv...

Spinning The Lazy Susan With Stars At Rotterdam's Film Festival

Few film festivals give anyone the chance to sit next to a star director over dinner, so spinning the lazy susan in Rotterdam's favourite Chinese restaurant with Whit Still...

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...