On Kid’s TV, Sugary Treats Pitched To Parents As Healthy

Children’s television has long been peppered with ads selling sugary snacks and drinks as fun, adventurous options for cool kids in the know. Now a study suggests tha...

We’re Halfway To Global Warming’s ‘Dangerous Limit’

The UK?s major meteorological outfit, the Met, says we?re entering what it calls ?uncharted territory? this year. According to the organization, ?data for 2015 so far shows...

A Chinese Photographer May Have Made The Perfect Gopro Stand

What’s ingenious about the stand is that it marks off common angles: 10º, 30º, 40º, and 45º, and you can adjust for negative or positive (high or ...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Boys And Girls Are Born Equal: The Power Of Challenging Gender Norms Early In Life

Diya (not her real name), a young girl in Jharkhand, India, regularly
experiences violence at the hands of her father. The injuries she
sustains from her father&r...

Mexico's Morelia Film Festival Builds Warm Community of Cinephiles

Glowing reports from the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
(FICM) inspired me to fly down to Michoacan in late October for the
13th edition. I was not dis...

Why Catherine Hardwicke Started to Fight Back Against Hollywood Sexism.

Catherine Hardwicke recently stormed the red carpet of her latest indie, “Miss You Already,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. With her male publicist c...

Deepika Padukone: All Women Should Have Faith In Themselves

Talking about women empowerment during a chat on radio station 92.7 BIG FM, Deepika said: “I don’t think we need a festival to celebrate womanhood. I believe th...

Amitabh Bachchan To Co-Host The 9th Anniversary Episode Of The CNN-IBN Show The Week That Wasn’t

After so many years of spoofing the major news stories of the week in a humorous and entertaining manner topped with a satirical twist, CNN-IBN’s awa...