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Isabelle Huppert Named Face of Kering’s Women in Motion Program

WOMAN IN MOTION: Kering has chosen award-winning actress Isabelle Huppert as the face of the third edition of its Women in Motion program at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The...

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Telling Tall Tales

World Storytelling Day (March 20) was a reminder that the art of storytelling is slowly but surely disappearing. Now television attracts the young and sidelined mothers and gr...

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Kareena Kapoor Khan: In Our Country, Everyone Has An Opinion

She's quite literally unstoppable. It's been over three months since her baby boy, Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi, arrived. Even during the course of her pregnancy, she was among the...

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Shakira Announces Plans To Build Seventh School In Colombia

Multi-platinum global artist and advocate Shakira, Jordi Cardoner – Vice President of FC Barcelona and its Foundation, and Xavier Bertolin, Educational Director of the &...

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Censorship By Mob Rule Is Choking Creativity, Says Star CEO Uday Shankar

Because he is now a central figure in India's television business as CEO of Star India, it's easy to forget how alien Uday Shankar was to it on the day he took the job almost ...

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How A Woman Can Feel Safe & Own Her City

If you are concerned about women’s safety, look beyond CCTVs and mobile apps, stand up for campaigns like Blank Noise’s ongoing ‘I Never Ask For It’A w...

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Raising A Glass To Camel Milk

What’s new with rabdi, gulab jamuns, roshogollas and kulfi? How about—camel milk? Or, if sweets are not your thing, try the camel milk coffee, tea or lassi. At the...

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Tribal Communities Protest Changes In Jharkhand Land Laws

Land right activists claim that recent amendments make it easier for land sharks to grab tribal land.Last year in May, when the Jharkhand government announced to remove handcu...

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500,000 Pieces Of Space Junk Are Orbiting The Earth.

Humans have a real knack for leaving their mark wherever they go. Thanks to the curiosity of the human mind and our grand ambitions, this trait is no longer just relegated to ...

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India’s Solar Capacity Expands By Record 5,525.98 MW, Doubling Growth

In the last year, 2016-17, the country’s solar energy capacity expanded by a record 5,525.98 MW. According to reports released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energ...

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BOLLYWOOD: LOVE, AGE, CHAOS, REPEAT

A witty, uneven yet engaging romantic comedy, De De Pyaar De 2 explores age-gap love wit...

November 19 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEATH OF THE WORKING CLASS HERO

Khalid Mohamed analyses the slow disappearance of the working-class protagonist from Hin...

November 18 2025

TV: TRANSFORMATIVE MADRAS JOURNEY

A deeply personal recollection of discovery, creativity, culture, and artistic encounter...

November 17 2025