Female Directors Tackle Tough Issues

Gender equality remains a hot topic in the film fest world. The industry program of the Toronto fest will focus on the issue, with a series of high-profile speakers discuss...

Why Is India Dragging Its Heels Over The Criminalisation Of Marital Rape?

When I started looking into the issue of marital rape in India, I soon realised how difficult it would be to get anyone to talk. It is a touchy subject, because there is st...

Many Issues Need To Be Told Through Women-Centric Films: Madhur Bhandarkar

Mumbai: Director Madhur Bhandarkar, known for making women-centric films, feels a number of issues still need to be told through such movies.Madhur, who started the trend o...

CNN-IBN Goes On ‘Mission Bengaluru’

Special series on the upcoming Bengaluru Municipal Elections~

New Delhi, 14 August 2015: As the city of Bengaluru gets ready for the upcoming munic...

Aparna Sen Says Women’s Chastity Still Questioned In Age Of DNA Tests

National Award winning filmmaker Aparna Sen on Tuesday said women were still subjected to questions on chastity in an era when scientific progress has provided tools like D...

Could We Use Films To Teach People About Mental Health?

The film industry is often accused of exaggerating, downplaying, or perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness. But this is far from the whole story; there have been man...

BEHIND, THE NEWS BREAKS

When going beyond kitchen melodrama and family politics, television content providers need to research the setting for their shows with a fine tooth comb. When Lifeline was...

Mirrors: Capturing And Recording The Collective Consciousness Through Media

In the recent wake of the Yakub Memon case, opinions have been polarized creating a rift, a schism of thought and identity has manifested in the nation’s collective c...

Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...