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Bollywood

Let Kalki Koechlin Define Gender Equality For You

We can launch a new iPhone every other month or explore every nook and cranny of planet Mars, but we’re still struggling to understand the concept of gender equality....

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Festivals

Rumbles In The Jungle: Highlights From The Berlin Film Festival

It was blisteringly cold for the first few days of the Berlin Film Festival but there was plenty of heat coming off the cinema screens, not least from Call Me by Your Name....

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Alternative Entertainment

UK Theatre Uses Play To Address Sexual Assault And Scrutiny In A Social Media World

University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance takes on a very important and difficult topic the next several days as it presents "Good Kids," a play centered on th...

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Sustainable Development

Farms Are Turning To Solar As Electricity Prices Soar

Step onto a farm in California, and you're likely to find solar panels planted near almonds or oranges.
Solar energy is a growing presence in the agriculture industry,...

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Alternative Entertainment

How Stories Configure Human Nature

It is in our nature to need stories. We arrive “biologically prepared” for them. They were evolutionarily crucial. We feel and think in story-logic (story-causa...

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Festivals

Word On The Street: 2017 Oxford Film Festival

Assistant Lifestyles Editor Devna Bose visited the 2017 Oxford Film Festival and asked festival-goers about what they were most looking forward to, their favorite part of t...

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Alternative Entertainment

Martin Scorsese On How 'Diversity Gaurantees Our Cultural Survival' In Film & In Everything Else

When Federico Fellini died in 1993, New York Times obituary writer Bruce Weber made a confession: “I never cared for his movies.” In a declaration of “rag...

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Human Rights

The Woman Who Cut Off Her Breasts

Her name was Nangeli and she lived in Cherthala, a watery alcove on the Kerala coast. We do not know when she was born or who sired her. But we know she died in 1803, her s...

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Environment

Urban Butterfly Declines 69% Compared To 45% Drop In Countryside

Butterflies have vanished from towns and cities more rapidly than from the countryside over the past two decades, according to a new study. Industrial agriculture has long ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Gender-Bending Shakespeare And Rough Magic In “The Tempest”

Eight times a week, in a rowdy, devastating, gender-bending production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, directed by Phyllida L...

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