Brief Encounters

Female bonding is rare in Bollywood movies, so a play about strangers meeting in a railway waiting room on a stormy night has been doing well in multiple languages.  Read More

Child Brides

The average age of marriage may be rising in the cities, but in the heart of Andhra hinterland, child marriages are still a very grim reality for many.

The case in ...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Cast: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu, Rutger Hauer

Director: Luc Besson

Producer: Luc Besson, Virgi...

Seven Women Get Real About What It's Like To Be Dark Skinned In India

Every time I go to Delhi, one of the only active things that are a part of my ‘I’m-home-now-let-me-slumber’ routine is accompanying my housekeeper/life-lo...

How "I Love Dick" Is Revolutionising The On-Screen Muse

In Amazon’s new sex comedy “I Love Dick,” the protagonist, Chris Kraus, played by Kathryn Hahn, becomes wildly obsessed with a mysterious man ― part cow...

Kofi Annan: On The Pictures That Capture Our Choking Planet

We are running out of space. Fly over Africa at night and you will see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark as scrub is removed to make way for human beings. Sa...

India Wants To Be TB-free By 2025, But Patients Suffer Due To Stigma, Lack Of Counselling

Yasmeen (name changed) was freshly out of teens when her marriage was fixed with Shameem—a tall and handsome boy, just like she had imagined for herself. Elated and e...

There Are No Gharanas, There Is Only Music

There are so many memories. First of all it is still not sinking that Kishoriji is no more. It happened so suddenly. In fact, somebody who is known to me and organises musi...

"The Fun Is When Despite All Odds You Are Able To Tell Your Story" - Shafaq Khan, Filmmaker Of Launda Naach, Shares Her Journey.

Shafaq Khan, director of Launda Naach, chatted with Kopal Khanna, Head of communications at Asian Center for Entertainment Education, and spoke about her passions, backgrou...