Film Festivals Can Compete With Smartphones: Berlinale Chief

Film festivals still have a bright future in a world in which more audiences watch movies and television series on smaller and smaller devices, the veteran head of Germany'...

True Review Television - New Beginnings, New Content

It’s been a week of new shows and annual shows showcasing a makeover. The weekend marked endings and a beginning. Monday night too signaled a beginning.

Satur...

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...

The End of Big Data

Personal data is anything but personal. Our phones and televisions listen in on us; the most powerful corporations in the world trade in consumer tics, browsing histories, ...

Nabard To Showcase Films On Rural India In Mumbai International Film Festival

The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development NABARD has been invited for the first time to participate in 14th Mumbai International Film Festival MIFF 2016. MIF...

Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words.

The idea o...

Vidya Balan Turns Coolie For A Female Porter

AN ardent advocate of women’s empowerment, Vidya Balan brought cheer to Rajasthan’s first female coolie, Manju, by taking up her back-breaking work for Saturday...

Content Makeover

Television channels are known to have shrugged their shoulders at non-Hindi preferred viewers. The argument being: these eyeballs aren?t money spinners. It is indeed ironic...

This Japanese Band Makes Music With E-Waste

Open Reel Ensemble love producing weird sounds from obsolete tech?the more warped the better. The Japanese musicians connect old tape recorders, television sets, and ventil...