Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...

Engineers Devise A Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees

Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of...

Ben Stiller Visits Refugees With UNHCR.

Ben’s private briefing, organised by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, brought him face to face with three families who had lost everything because of war. With their liv...

Spinning The Lazy Susan With Stars At Rotterdam's Film Festival

Few film festivals give anyone the chance to sit next to a star director over dinner, so spinning the lazy susan in Rotterdam's favourite Chinese restaurant with Whit Still...

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...

True Review - Two New Shows Of Relevance

In the last few weeks, two channels have espoused women empowerment in their new offerings at Prime Time. Star Plus premiered Tamanna last week, before that Colors launched...

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

Vivek Oberoi To Pledge His Eyes For Donation

Vivek Oberoi has always been active in supporting social causes through his voluntary organisation. Interestingly, he has now decided to donate his eyes after a couple appr...