Academy Launches Inclusive Mentorship Program

The film academy is launching a new mentorship program for students and young professionals from “underrepresented communities,” AMPAS said on Wednesday, called...

France Becomes The First Country To Ban Plastic Plates And Cutlery

France has apparently become the first country in the world to ban plastic plates, cups and utensils, passing a law that will go into effect in 2020. Exceptions will be all...

Kangana Ranaut: Women Shouldn't Be Scared To Come Out And Talk

Actress Kangana Ranaut today refrained from directly commenting on filmmaker Vikas Bahl, who is accused of sexual harassment, but said women should be encouraged to speak u...

Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

Farm Researchers Are Using Military Face-Recognition Software To Inspect Grapes

Somewhere in a field in South Carolina, a robot drives slowly through the dry soil between tall, swaying rows of sorghum: a nutrient-rich grain. The robot scans the stalks ...

Women's Prize For Fiction 2017

The 2017 shortlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced, featuring six novels by female authors writing in English from across the globe. Set up in ...

Obese Indian Wedding

Bharat Dabholkar’s Blame It On Yashraj, had its hundredth recently—making it one of the most successful English plays in recent times. This Ashvin Gidwani produ...

A New Kind Of Male Birth Control Is Coming

Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a universi...

Kevin Costner, Water Planet Team Up To Advance Sustainable Water Reuse

In 2009, famed actor and environmentalist Kevin Costner and Eric Hoek, then a professor of engineering at UCLA, joined forces to develop a system aimed at cleaning up oil &...