Ben Wishaw On Sexuality, Privacy & Playing Troubled Heroes

“I’m not damaged,” says Ben Whishaw. “Not more than anybody else.”
Whishaw is resting in his dressing room at the Walter Kerr theatre on ...

Shifting Perspectives At Non-Fiction Film Festival

Urgent global issues get personal at Doc Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual program of international non-fiction film.Many selections in the festival, which...

When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

The Indian novel writing tradition is by and large a post colonial phenomenon. Right from one of the first novels in English written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to the ...

TELEVISION?S NEW POSTER GIRL

Priyanka Chopra?s career in Bollywood is anything but over. Always looking for something new, her TV debut in the US series Quantico comes as no surprise.? Miss World 2000 ...

OF MISOGYNY, MENTAL HEALTH, STORYTELLING AND ALL INDIA BAKHCHOD!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius - and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It has now been a long time that I ...

Nearly one thousand people march for LGBTQ rights in New Delhi

Over 1,000 people marched from Barakhamba Road in New Delhi to Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand an end to discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, q...

Why climate change should signal the end of the city-state

Our urban leaders’ belief in autonomy as the ultimate goal must be unset writes Richard Sennett. The seductive idea of a place controlling its own fortunes is out of ...

Indian women show indomitable power

I visit India about once a year. The reason I come so regularly is that the foundation I started with my husband, Bill, works with Indian partners to help advance the count...

UN launches Bollywood music video for gay rights in India

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday launched the first-ever Bollywood-style UN music video at a press conference in Mumbai, India to promot...