The Internet Will Become Self-Aware When Aliens Wake It Up

Most people agree the internet is not consciously alive (though my two-year old daughter, who’s addicted to internet games, disagrees). Currently, the internet accept...

Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars

Can any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.
In Germany, it is n...

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

Engineers Devise A Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees

Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of...

The Destructive Influence Of Imaginary Peers

We humans irrationally think we’re rational. We think that we decide how to behave by weighing the pros and cons. In reality, the strongest influence on our decisions...

Unicef Meet In Assam Over Childbirth Deaths

Unicef, Assam, is taking a slew of measures to curb the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the state. It is planning to scale up the intersectoral consultation among various ...

True Review - Film - The Finest Hours

Cast: Chris Pine,Casey Affleck,Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger,John Ortiz,Eric Bana

Direction: Craig Gillespie

Produced: Dorothy Aufiero, James Whitaker

True Review Film - Airlift

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Feryna Wazheir

Direction: Raja Krishna Menon 

Produced: Nikhil Advani, Monisha Adwani, Aruna Bhatia, Madhu G. Bhojwani...

Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words.

The idea o...