Health Ministry Launches Longitudinal Ageing Study In India

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), here today. Launching the project, Shri B P Sharma, Secretary (HFW) stat...

Film Stars Sign In For Cause To Donate Bed Sheets To Old Folks

Tangerine teams up with Bollywood to help India’s old folks

Mumbai, March 2016: In today’s age of celebriti...

Kaleidoscope - Liars All

Liars come in all shapes and sizes, what happens to the people they deceive?

Two books about liars, one in which a young woman is cheated by her husband, the other ...

German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too

Germany — IN the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pa...

Rush Hour Producer Arthur Sarkissian Is Making A Movie About Elderly Jewel Thieves

One of the hardest things about getting old, other than all of your friends dying and the lack of good Hollywood roles, is the way that people assume you can’t really...

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

Santa Barbara Film Festival TO Host U.S. Premiere OF ‘The Little Prince’

The 31st annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) will kick off with the U.S. premiere of Paramount Pictures’ “The Little Prince.” Based o...

Smartphone Could Help Detect Air Pollution

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost method of detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a significant ai...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...