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The Sundance Film Festival 2019 has several films sold already

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival began on January 24 and is scheduled to run through February 3 2019. The annual film festival is designed to showcase filmmaking talent from bo...

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Three interrelated pandemics – obesity, starvation and climate change are ‘burning’ our planet

According to a report released on 27th Jan (Sunday) in The Lancet, the world needs to cope up with new initiatives to fight three interrelated pandemics - obesity, starvation ...

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World Economic Forum attempts to integrate gender and equality into broader discussions

On the night of 22nd January (Tuesday), JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon checked in to the Panorama Hotel in Davos to have an informal discussion on the issues of gender along ...

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Cigarette Butts are not just killing you, but the Environment too

Plastics are finally being recognised as the major pollutant in use and have resulted in ban in many countries as of now. Yet another, bigger problem is of the cigarette filte...

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Ashish Vidyarthi urges Entrepreneurs to Scale-up

Actor Ashish Vidyarthi, who has acted in films of 11 different languages, donned a different hat at the ‘10X Scale-Up Conclave’ organized by The Bombay Management ...

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Aamir Khan’s ‘Rubaru Roshini’ premieres on Star Plus

‘Rubaru Roshni’, a documentary film produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao achieved its utmost praise by famous Bollywood personalities like Karan Johar, P...

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Davos 2019: Sir Attenborough and Prince William question World Leaders on the Environmental Crisis

On Monday, 21st January, Sir David Attenborough and Prince William met in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland discussing the factors of huma...

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Class of 2018 graduates from Whistling Woods International

All good things must come to an end, as the old saying goes. And so it was for the Whistling Woods International’s (WWI) graduating class of 2018, as they celebrated the...

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A Doctor-Whistleblower from Nauru wins the 2019 Blueprint for Free Speech Prize

Dr. Nick Martin won the global 2019 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize in London on 16th of this month (Wednesday) for speaking out about the off-shore immigrant iss...

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#FireFightingSexism: Firefighters tell little girl, “Don’t let gender stand in the way!”

The so called stereotype of having only men for certain jobs has never gone down. The trending hash tag #FireFightingSexism has gone viral over the recent times. It was first ...

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FESTIVALS: QUEER STORIES ILLUMINATE NEW PATHWAYS

A reflection on queer filmmaking, festival curation, and representation at WIFF Mumbai 2...

November 22 2025

GENDER: LIVING ALONE, FINDING INNER STRENGTH

AkelaNest by Aparajita Krishna: A reflective, deeply personal exploration of single livi...

November 21 2025

TV: TRUTH RISES THROUGH THE DARKNESS

In this review by Monojit Lahiri, a relentless Bengali crime thriller unfolds with raw p...

November 20 2025