Kaleidoscope - All That Glitters

China is considered an Asian Tiger and an economic superpower to be feared by the First World countries. In India, Shanghai is seen as a model of urban development, and all...

Nawazuddin Set To Launch Memoir At Literature Festival

Mumbai, May 10 -- Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born in Budhana, a small town in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
Later, he graduated from the National School of...

All You Need To Know About Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on 11 May with Mad Max’s George Miller heading up the jury. But amid all the glitz, glamour and furores over high heels, non-film b...

Craig Ferguson And Hollywood Stars Come Together To Have Fun And Change Lives In NBC’s Second Annual ‘Red Nose Day Special’ May 26

Craig Ferguson and a star-studded cast of Hollywood favorites is coming together to have fun, raise money and change the lives of kids who need our help the most in ‘...

How the Arab Spring Changed the Arab Screen and Why You Need to Start Paying Attention

"I took this video so that people know what really happened," whispers the protagonist of "Rags and Tatters," Ahmad Abdallah's urgent yet understated Egyptian drama set ami...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

Kaleidoscope - Glimpses Of Kabul

Western women who do not have to live under oppressive conditions in strictly patriarchal countries like Afghanistan tend to romantisize the country's beauty and the nobili...

When Economic Growth Doesn't Make Countries Happier

Rich people are happier than poorer people on average, and richer countries are happier than poorer countries. And yet growing national wealth is not always accompanied by ...

The Dying Art Of Film Projectionists: In Pictures

As film gives way to digital, Richard Nicholson gained access to an endangered habitat where most cinema-goers never venture – the projection box – to document ...