Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

Women Empowerment: Female Drivers To Soon Drive E-Rickshaws And Taxis

In a bid to bolster women empowerment, transport department had been providing driving lessons to women since International Women’s day last year. Taking this forward...

Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons In Fight For Land Rights

Cutting-edge technologies - from drones to data collected by taxi drivers - are becoming key weapons in the global battle to improve land rights and fight poverty, experts ...

Varanasi: A Journey Beyond The Within

The first impression of this “holy” city were singular moments of “unholiness” tied together by exasperation and a tense feeling of confusion. As we...

China Will Replace All 67,000 Fossil-Fueled Taxis In Beijing With Electric Cars

Taxis are the bane of all urban areas. Typically, they are poorly made, poorly maintained, and spew tons of carbon dioxide into the air every day as they shuttle people fro...

Public Transport Workers Lead A Unique Charity Drive In Kerala

Employees working in the public transport sector in Malappuram district of Kerala are part of a unique charity initiative where they often dedicate a day’s earnings t...

A Higgs Boson Scientist Created A Fertility App That's As Effective As The Pill

Over the past century or so, women have increasingly gained access to a growing range of family-planning options that are much more reliable than the ages-old “r...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

500 Women Who Are Manual Scavengers Soon To Become Cabbies

The project has been taken up by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as a part of the National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation’s (NSKFDC) wor...