Vintage Women, Mentor

March 8 every year is a special calendar entry for so many women. A few years back, I overheard a group of suburban housewives weighing the pros and cons of special buffet ...

Aamir Khan attacks fake charity appeal using his name

Aamir Khan has criticised a “malicious” fake charity appeal which claims links to his TV show Satyamev Jayate. The actor and television host said that donation ...

How to Succeed in Global Warming Industry With Carbon Brokering Program

Carbon Brokering Program is a newly updated system that provides helpful ways to earn money in global warming. It was created by Regan Hardy, an entrepreneur and air expert...

Vandana Bahadur: A woman of steel in all-male gram panchayat

On a pleasant Sunday in January this year, as the nation was celebrating the 65th Republic Day, a 32-year-old woman was fending off 100-odd men at a panchayat meeting in Ma...

Climate change is killing life at the bottom of the sea

Climate change isn’t a matter of controversy– the planet’s climate changes all the time and is arguably doing so now. The question is what’s causing...

True Review: Gulaab Gang Starring Madhuri Dixit & Juhi Chawla

Director: Soumik Sen

Cast: Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla

Rating: 2 stars

The Soumik Sen-directed Gul...

Seven unforgettable stories in the battle against sex trafficking, collected over two decades of my reporting

We think of slavery in terms of those sepia photographs in the history books, the horror that Abraham Lincoln helped end. That’s what I thought when I first reported ...

Women's Day: Why is TV cocking a snook at women's empowerment?

Why does women’s empowerment find little space on the small screen? While there is a deluge of TV shows revolving around female protagonists preoccupied with househol...

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and Jharkhand in India, and Ba...