Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

Snow Leopards At Risk As Himalayas Face Climate Change 'Crisis'

Warming temperatures could cause the tree line to shift up the mountains and cause farmers to plant crops and graze livestock at higher altitudes, squeezing the snow leopar...

How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality By 99.76%

In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam’s Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw his face muscles ...

Piper Perabo Shares Experiences Of Visiting Syrian Refugees In Greece

Piper Perabo – in partnership with WhoSay and the International Rescue Committee – recently visited Syrian refugees in Greece, and has written about her experie...

Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat

Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, and his colleagues found that some birds were adapting to the radioactive environment by producing higher...

Rajasthan Revolution: In 30 Panchayats, More Girls Born Than Boys

Dolatpura Kotda, Rajasthan: Mali Devi, a 27-year-old daily wage labourer in Dolatpur Kotda, 35 kilometers north-east of Jaipur, was married at 13 as a part of a tradition c...

True Review Movie - Talvar

Critics rating: 3 Stars

Cast:  Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Sharma.

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

We were hoping to avoid this, and did our damdest for that, but unfortunately, in the face of demeaning obduracy, we f...

True Review Movie – Maze Runner The Scorch Trials

Critics rating: 2.5 Stars

Cast:  Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Giancarlo Espo...