Calling It What It Is... Rape

It was my freshman year. A couple of friends and I were at a party with some upperclassmen at a duplex about two blocks east of campus. The alcohol was flowing for us that ...

Taking A Stand Against Sexual Violence With Lady Gaga On The 2016 Oscar Stage

Halfway through Lady Gaga’s emotional and heart wrenching Academy Award performance of “Till It Happens to You” on Sunday night, the backdrop parted and m...

True Review Movie - Aligarh

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Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao

Production: Sandeep Singh

Director: Hansal Mehta

Written By: Apurva Asrani

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Kaleidoscope - Theatre Of Tolerance

As the sensitive Aligarh about the persecution of a gay professor releases, the positive response to it shows that ordinary people are getting over their prejudice...

Hansal Mehta’s ‘Aligarh’ To Close Dallas South Asian Film Fest

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s reality drama “Aligarh” will be closing the 2016 Dallas/Fort Worth South Asian Film Festival (DFW SAFF) on Sunday. And the direct...

Women Considered Better Coders – But Only If They Hide Their Gender

When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudi...

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...

Devangshu Datta: How Not To Fix India's Gender Ratio

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi recently suggested that sex determination during pregnancy be made compulsory; that the gender of the unborn child be reg...

Another Chance: The Supreme Court Holds Out A Sliver Of Hope That Section 377 May Be Legally Diluted

Hope flickers again. The curative petition on the Supreme Court’s 2013 judgment upholding Section 377 has been referred to a larger five-judge constitutional bench. S...