Day 2 Of The 16th Mumbai Film Festival Captivates Cine Goers

Mumbai, October 15, 2014:  After a starry opening ceremony, movie lovers qued up at  PVR Andheri, Cinemax Versova  and Chanda...

Dungeons and Dragons and girls: Video shoots down gamer stereotypes

A new short documentary challenges the stereotypes we build around boys and girls and their play habits. How do parents influence those stereotypes? A new video called &ldq...

Startup Spotlight: Play Works Studio develops games to get girls excited about programming, science

Two years ago at a Startup Weekend Women’s Edition event, former Amazon and Microsoft user experience designer Adriana Moscatelli was inspired to address the gender i...

Infant deaths high in India

The World Health Organisation?? (WHO) latest global report on child mortality (2000-13) has once again placed India among the leading countries in terms of high infant mort...

Girvi Takes Flight

Whichever way you spell this recent show on Colors TV -- Udaan or Udann, it is going where few TV series have gone. Placed in a remote region of India, there is an antithes...

True Review: Daawat-e-Ishq

Critics Rating: 2.5 Stars*

Cast: Parineeti Chopra, Anupam Kher, Aditya Roy Kapur

Direction: Habib Faisal<...

The human cost of sex trafficking

In the sex trade, the demand for young girls is high due to a belief that sex with children holds less risk of HIV infection, and, in fact, can cure the disease As the cust...

Aamir Khan, Karan Johar Come Together For Women Empowerment

As part of the seventh anniversary this October, fashion magazine Vogue is launching a new initiative to support women empowerment. The activity aims to raise awareness and...

A Pot-Pourri Of Shows

Instead of feeling jaded with the rounds of the same old shows, one is feeling buoyant. Two new channels ? Zindag, which has settled well into selective living rooms in the...