Alternative Entertainment

Vans helps Girls celebrate Creativity by learning to Skate

Everybody's favourite sneaker brand Vans celebrated women's day with much excitement and empowerment. The skateboard brand sent pro skater and Tony Hawk protogé Lizzie ...

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The Brilliance of Salvador Dali

The man. The master. The marvel. Salvador Dali is one of the most celebrated artists of all time. His fiercely technical yet highly unusual paintings, sculptures and visionary...

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Picture Books and Coming-of-age Stories

As research on transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth becomes increasingly prevalent in literary scholarship, educational possibilities arise for teachers of ...

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The Blockbuster Effect

When you go online to look for entertainment there's a stocked-up library of content on various streaming platforms mainly YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Hotstar (in Indi...

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#BossyBuyOut – A Campaign to buy the Royal Haymarket Theatre

A crowdfunding campaign has been initiated by a group of women called Bossy to buy the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Their aim is to showcase female-led work at the venue. So what...

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Alternative Music with ATFC and Switcheroo

There's a list of music genres people listen to in India and that includes Bollywood, Bollywood rock, Bollywood jazz, Bollywood EDM, Bollywood metal, few others which I can't ...

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Where do Women Stand when it comes to Stand-Up Comedy?

When I picture a stand-up comedian in my mind, it’s always a man. This is eerie, yet a sad truth of the comedy industry. Take a trip back to January 2017 when Amazon Pri...

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Summoning, An Anti Facist Metal Band

These are strange days for classic heavy metal. Many godfathers of the movement are in their 60s, some close to 70 years old, including members of Judas Priest and Black Sabba...

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Sesame Street to help Child Refugees in Syria

Sesame Street is an educational television program designed for preschoolers and is recognized as a pioneer of the contemporary standard which combines education and entertain...

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Cold War and Cool Jazz

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.” ― Louis Armstrong American culture has been proven to be influential which termed America as a cultural b...

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MOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS

Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples acros...

October 19 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: THE QUESTION UNANSWERED

As India celebrates the birth centenary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of the Brahmapu...

October 18 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: FETED ABROAD, FORGOTTEN AT HOME

When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it f...

October 17 2025