Panel Including Shonda Rhimes Address Film/TV's 'Unconscious Bias'

The top entertainment figures filling the stage at the Writers Guild Theatre came from wildly diverse areas. One was an Oscar-winning actress, another was an Oscar-winning ...

A Song To Save Her

HYDERABAD: We cannot be sure if it was a media stunt, but it was pulled off well. American pop singer Reggie Benjamin, who was in the city to launch his Mission Save Her in...

Open Letter To Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: This Ad You Figure In Is Insidiously Racist

We write to draw your attention to a full-page advertisement for Kalyan Jewellers in which you feature that appeared in The Hindu (Delhi edition) on April 17, 2015. In the ...

REPORTERS: WHERE’S THE STORY?

I don?t feel at home with Reporters. The look is too glossy, too unreal. The channel head sports a muffler. The editor Kabir is usually in a jacket (wonder why the tie is m...

Doordarshan Looks To Offer TV channels On Smartphones; Prasar Bharati Writes To I&B Ministry With Blueprint

NEW DELHI: Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is experimenting with a pilot project to let people watch TV channels directly on their smartphones, without using Internet or ...

Truckers Ferrying Deadly HIV Virus Into NE: Survey

Most truck drivers live an isolated life– far from their near and dear ones– for months together. And their carnal desires are mostly fulfilled by commercial se...

Climate Change: Paris 'Last Chance' For Action

Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris.

The key element is the goal to li...

Do We Need a Global Tax On Wealth?

Taxes have always been politicized. In modern times, no election passes without each campaign's position on taxes being thoroughly scrutinized. And with economic inequality...

Dan Bilzerian Helps Raise Money for Charity Using a Giraffe

To many members of the poker community he’s the rich kid with too much money and lax morals, but Dan Bilzerian defied his public persona on Saturday when he hosted a ...