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Sustainable Development

UN Urges Action On Sustainable Development To Create Pathways For Global 'Transformation'

21 April 2016 – The President of the United Nations General Assembly today called on the international community to take action on the new UN sustainable development age...

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Environment

Earth Day 2016: Five Inspiring Facts

How To Do Your Bit On Friday, leaders from 160 countries will officially sign the Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day 2016. The deal was thrashed out in Paris last December i...

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Festivals

Paul's Plan For The Aviemore Adventure Film Festival

The Aviemore Adventure Film Festival debuts this weekend with special guests and movies celebrating the outdoors. Below, the event's Paul White talks about setting up the even...

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Bollywood

Swara Bhaskar On Nil Battey Sannata: ‘I Was Anxious About The Character’s Age, But When I Heard The Script, I Knew I Had To Do It’

The moment she heard she would have to play mother to a 15-year-old, actress SwaraBhaskar’s first instinct was to turn down the role. “I was prepared to say no bec...

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Hollywood

Prince Charity Work, Events And Causes

Prince supported Rebuild the Dream, a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of everyday people - from seniors to students, moms, dads, brothers and sisters—who come toge...

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Trending

Women From Ages Of 60 To 90 Are Learning ABC's At School For Grannies

With the aim of reaching 100% literacy, this village has started a school for its uneducated grandmothers.A school that is open for only two hours a day, where the uniform is ...

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Gender

The Influence Of Homosexuality On Western Culture.

Like many other English visitors, the artist Robert Medley found the atmosphere of Paris distinctly relaxed: “There were no parents to worry about, and under French law ...

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Health

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Microsoft fou...

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Sustainable Development

Meet The Art Collective Of ‘Sad Asian Girls’ Destroying Asian-American Stereotypes

When you think of an Asian woman, what comes to mind? A tiger mom? An anime fantasy? A manicurist talking about you in another language? For Asian women, these stereotypes are...

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Environment

Climate Change Is Forcing A New Manifest Destiny

I hate to say it, but I might be living at the wrong latitude—or at least, my kids certainly are. Reams of climate change reports—and a quick look at the news show...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GHATAK, JUNG, BRECHT & PARTITION

In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merge...

November 12 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: JUST DO IT

In a conversation, Khalid Mohamed draws out the eventful life and film adventures of wri...

November 11 2025

TV: A JOURNEY THROUGH GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Part 2 of Surabhi Diaries by filmmaker Suhail Tatari continues his vivid recollections f...

November 10 2025