Content is Queen

I open my piece with the vide...

Mumbai gets into cinema mode

Think Mumbai and films, and the cult song, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, pops up instantly. Exploring the city’s love affair with the movies is project Cinema and the City that...

The Job Of A Filmmaker Is To Afflict The Comfortable And Comfort The Afflicted

MUMBAI, March 14, 2014 – On Saturday, acclaimed Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, blockbuster Nigerian director of note Tunde Kelani, and Oscar-nominated American produc...

Omega School Represents India at UN Human Rights Conference

Fifty two Class 11 students of Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Kolapakkam, participated in a human rights video conference on March 3.

Omega was the onl...

How climate change destroys human rights

Environmental destruction caused by people is poised to become the “most massive human rights violation ever”. In a 2012 interview, Oregon State University phil...

Global Warming and Potential Water Contamination Resulting from Fracking for Hydrocarbons

Contaminated water, presumed to be from drilling into and fracturing (fracking) hydrocarbon-bearing rock strata, has been in the news for some time now. And so have global ...

British Floods, California Drought: A Connection?

This winter, weather reports have been full of extremes. California, for instance, has had the driest year in 119 years of recordkeeping, with the Sierra snowpack less than...

Highway

HIGHWAY –  A MARVELLOUS JOURNEY

RATING: 4.5 stars

First of all – a standing ovation to Bollywood.  H...

TERI university honours Shabana Azmi, Anshu Jain

Noted actor Shabana Azmi, Deutsche Bank Co-CEO Anshu Jain and Nobel laureate Yuan-Tseh Lee were among some of those who were conferred with honorary doctorates at the sixth...