India's Failing Healthcare System

India's failing healthcare system, with latest tragedies from Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, makes one question the system and the options involved, especially...

Emraan Hashmi Lends Support to #1SmallStep

Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi recently lent his support to 1SmallStep, to help children diagnosed with cancer, and is working to help build an emergency fund to ailing chil...

Sticks for a Stroll

In one of the bylanes of Indiranagar in Bengaluru, a small store is attracting a big crowd, selling customized walking sticks.

Made by Bheemstyx, these aids to hiki...

Screenings in the Woods

The sixth edition of the Film Festival in the Woods is set to be held at the Brushwood Centre at Ryerson Woods, Illinois on the 9th of September, 2017. The festival, which ...

Steven Wilson's To the Bone Cuts Deep

Maverick musician Steven Wilson recently released his fifth prog rock album, presenting ten all-new strummed out pop melodies.

Wilson, a native of the United Kingdo...

‘Remembering Truffaut’ at the 8th Jagran Film Festival

Mumbai, September 2017: Almost five to seven decades after the films of Francois Truffaut, the famed French Film Director who initiated the French New Wave would be on...

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

Laughter in Lahore

Despite its image as a repressed nation torn by turmoil, Pakistan's alternative art movement is slowly making heads turn. Auratnaak, an all-women group of comedy a...

Hollywood's Helping Hand

Hollywood actors and actresses are doing their bit of good for the victims of Hurricane Harvey by making monetary donations, and by using their reach to influence people to...