The Storytellers

We live in times fraught with violence when the artiste or performer is either silent or walking on the eggshells of easily hurt sentiments and political vendetta. When it ...

Washington set to host South Asian Film Festival

September 8th -10th, 2017 will see the annual Washington DC South Asian Film Festival 2017 kick off at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD.

Launched by Caesar Produ...

Cross Country Cinema

Bengali director Kaushik Ganguly's Bishorjon opens with Padma, a Hindu Bangladeshi, finding a wounded Nasir Ali, a Muslim Indian lying unconscious on the banks of ...

Papa Don’t Preach

What would happen if two cantankerous, cricket-crazy men, one from India and the other from Pakistan were forced to share an apartment?  Bedlam, that’s what.

Slicing the Loaf: Bill Gates limns the art and science of Modern Breads

From ‘The starry night’ cappuccinos and galaxy doughnuts to the Atkins diet or The Zone diet, we have come a long way in our journey for ‘food’ (rem...

Sulabha Arya - She does not stoop to Conquer!!!

One summer noon we were heading in a Bus towards London’s Buckingham Palace with my UK based daughter, son in law and his mother Sulabha. The latter happens...

Malala Yousufzai Becomes UN's Youngest Ever Messenger Of Peace

United Nations: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel laureate, has broken another age barrier and become the youngest UN Messenger of Peace, an honour she shares with Holly...

South Asian Govts Take 20 Plus Years to Turn Women's Deamnds ...

I am sad about the state of the official SAARC. There is still little connectivity between some of our countries. I have had to travel from Delhi to Islamabad via Abu Dhabi...

Women In India Need Better Access To Contraception: UN Study

Due to a lack of access to information or services, or a lack of support from partners or communities, an estimated 225 million women globally are not using safe and effect...