Deepika Padukone As Bhansali’s Mastani Is A True Role Model For Gender Equality

Perhaps one of the most glaring, disturbing symbols of the regressive patriarchy inherent in our traditions is our treatment of the Indian widow. She has been forced to end...

The Top 6 Good-News Stories of 2015

This is a tough time to feel optimistic about the future. With the notable exception of impressive global cooperation on climate change and energy, our papers and screens h...

Launch Of Inactivated Polio Vaccine In India

India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not ...

Spacex Is The World’s Most Interesting Space Company Again

SpaceX is back in business. Monday night?s historic launch and landing of Elon Musk?s new, more powerful Falcon 9 rocket ticked off every box the company needed to prove to...

Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

Dark Christmas Film Festival

‘This the season for film festivals—and before we get to the big ones happening next month, we have an ample supply of mini-local festivals here in Utah. The on...

These 15 Events Prove That 2015 Was A Good Year For Gender Equality In India

It’s been three years since December 16th, 2012. Three years since India was plunged into a social revolution of sorts, when the brutal gangrape of a 23 year old stud...

How Nirbhaya Rape Case Points To India's Deep-Rooted Problem With Women

New Delhi (CNN) There’s crime and then there’s evil, pure and simple. By any standards, the events of December 12, 2012 can only be described as evil — th...

The World?? Most Underestimated Disease

The dirt roads are dusty in the summer and a quagmire when it starts to rain. The gutters, few and far between, fill up quickly with milky, putrid water. Khayelitsha, the s...