What’s gone wrong with TV news in India

Broadcast news has dominated as the major source of news and information across the world for over 3 decades. This was all the more possible...

Television and beyond

The recent BARC ratings place KBC at Numero Uno position amidst a fierce ratings war in a multi-channel environment…but it wasn’t always like this.

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Farhan Akhtar says that there is nothing negative about being HIV Positive

Actor-producer Farhan Akhtar was spotted talking about the stigma associated to HIV and the disease AIDS at the launch of the Vespa RED in Mumbai. Piaggio, the com...

Women riding the Wheels of Change in Saudi Arabia

"Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights." - Hillary Clinton

In a country like Saudi Arabia where women's rights are limited in compari...

Sustaining Sanitation

With the Prime Minister riding high on the publicity of the Swachh Bharat Mission, clean India seems to be an achievable dream today, but statistics say otherwise.

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Anuskha Sharma’s take on instances of Gender Inequality in B-Town

It’s hard to speak up when, once the wise said that, words are a double-edged sword. A lot of us don’t speak because the swinging might be on its way to our nec...

Kid Rock for US Senate?

Is this a joke or some sort of publicity stunt? Is something most people will question when they hear of musician Robert James Ritchie aka ‘Kid Rock’ announcing...

Big Switch: Teens Work on Leaving No Footprints Behind for the Future Generations

The world has been shedding its green skin interminably, courtesy human intervention in it’s natural process. But hitherto we were paying least attention to the lurki...

On The Eve Of Another Silent Anniversary

Overwhelmed by grief when my father passed away in January 1966
I did not know how to combat that empty feeling. I was just 23 years old and I had had so much to talk,...