Adult Certification For 'Aligarh' Trailer Is Pathetic Hypocrisy

Responding to allegations that the CBFC's 'A' rating of our 'Aligarh' trailer reeked of homophobia, Censor chief PahlajNihalani gave a mind-numbing statement to a leading p...

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

Actresses Support Aclu Call To Investigate Hollywood Hiring, Bias Against Female Directors

The government has yet to respond to the American Civil Liberties Union’s allegations of discrimination against female filmmakers, but Hollywood is certainly talking ...

Bollywood families get real

The Indian film fraternity is leading by example and setting new parameters when it comes to love, marriage, children and life choices Lada Guruden Singh While it was in 20...

Feminism In Music: When Song Lyrics Are 'Not Feminist Enough'

Meghan Trainor’s Top 40 hit “All About That Bass” has been getting a lot of criticism lately. Besides allegations of plagiarism, the upbeat tune has also ...

Injustice in Mahan Forest

In a tragic turn of events on the night of the seventh of May, four Greenpeace activists Akshay Gupta, Vinit Gupta, Bechan Lal and Vijay Shankar Singh were arrested for pea...

NO FIRE ZONE – THE KILLING FIELDS OF SRI LANKA

Synopsis

In summer 2008 the Sri Lankan Government decided to finish the 30-years civil war against Tamil rebels at any cost – which meant:...

A Shifting Balance of Power

The notion and practice of power is arguably what creates and maintains large societies. Since the role of government is conceived to be so integral in safeguarding our soc...

Palestine: Halt Execution of Gaza Child Offender

Hani Abu Aliyan, imprisoned in Gaza’s central prison, faces execution.

Imposing the death penalty for a crime committed by a child makes the executions un...