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Hollywood

Netflix’s Documentaries are Food for the Brain

7 Documentaries To Watch On Netflix That Will Make You Smarter Documentaries have a niche audience. Not many people would choose to binge watch documentaries on a Sunday afte...

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Alternative Entertainment

2018 So Far: The Songs that are Trending

The year in songs has been good so far. Probably because there is a staggering amount of music out there. Gone are the days when one would be hooked onto the same song for wee...

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Sustainable Development

Family Planning Essential for a Sustainable Future

There's no right answer to how many children are enough or how many are too many. It all depends on a couple's choice. Their feeling about childhood, their financial stability...

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Health

India’s Maternal Mortality Rate on a Downward Trend

According to the Sample Registration System bulletin, which was released last Wednesday, the maternal mortality ratio in India has reduced by 22% during the 2014-2016 period a...

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TV

The Break with Michelle Wolf: The Hall of Laughter

Digital platforms have by now been dispensing their share of outrageous, funny and sometimes scary news bytes that skirt around a film of what looks like the bubble holding ou...

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Bollywood

World Environment Day: How are the Stars saving the Environment?

June 5 marked World Environment Day - a day dedicated to generating awareness regarding the threats lurking over the environment. Every year World Environment Day is celebrate...

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Environment

The Fish You Eat May Contain Plastic Microparticles

A day or two ago my Twitter feed was filled with tweets from WWF, Dodo and the UN with headlines which said: "By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’...

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Movies

Saved the Dinosaurs, but not this Film

Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, B. D. Wong, Isabella Sermon, Geraldine Chaplin, Jef...

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Powerful People

Meet Barnali Ray Shukla; A Writer, Director and Poet

Barnali Ray Shukla dons many hats – that of a writer-director, a documentary filmmaker and a poet. She has worked in movies like Satya (1998) as assistant...

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Kaleidoscope

Difficult Daughters

Neil Simon (along with Moliere) must be the most popular western playwright whose works are adapted (often plagiarized) on the Mumbai stage. There is something about so many ...

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SANJIB SABHAPANDIT: PURPOSE-DRIVEN CINEMA

Sanjib Sabhapandit is in conversation with Utpal Datta about Assamese cinema, purpose-dr...

October 8 2026

YASH CHOPRA: BOLLYWOOD’S TIMELESS MAJNU

Monojit Lahiri remembers Yash Chopra, Bollywood’s quintessential romantic filmmake...

October 7 2026

WHEN GRIEF BECOMES ART

Vinta Nanda speaks with Divya Jagdale about Brownie, her first short film, and how grief...

October 6 2026