Siddharth Vardarajan Launches News Website ‘The Wire’

Senior Journalist and former Editor of The Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, launched his website, The Wire. The website was launched recently and will cover different aspects ...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

Kristen Stewart Calls Hollywood ?Disgustingly Sexist?

Following Meryl Streep and Patricia Arquette’s public statements about sexism in Hollywood, Kristen Stewart is now following suit. The Twilight star, who recently mad...

Want My Vote? Let's Talk

The general election is fast approaching; yet current registration levels among young people are shockingly low, with a recent poll suggesting that in the UK less than a th...

REPORTERS: WHERE’S THE STORY?

I don?t feel at home with Reporters. The look is too glossy, too unreal. The channel head sports a muffler. The editor Kabir is usually in a jacket (wonder why the tie is m...

WHEN MOVIES CAME HOME

It was in April 1995, that Indian television viewers experienced the thrill of their first 24 hour Hindi movie channel ? Zee Cinema. The channel indulged the viewers, who t...

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...

Wisconsin Agency Bans Talk of Climate Change

The state treasurer in Wisconsin declined to explain his views about climate change a day after leading the effort to ban a small state agency from talking about rising tem...

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...