'In Daily Soaps, Content Suffers Because Of TRP' Says Gajra Kottary

MUMBAI: When does a talented television writer get frustrated and want to quit? When the programming head begins flogging the subject but also demands "depth" from the writ...

A Kid’s World

In the last few years, there has been an exponential increase in theatre for children. There are theatre workshops all over the city; schools stage lavish productions. Thea...

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

Singer-songwriter takes award for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’ For more than...

Unsurprisingly, Gender Neutral Textbooks Make For Better Students

Last week, two researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) presented a study that suggests gender-neutral course literature help...

Writer Turns Lens On Child Abuse

GUWAHATI: Writer Arup KumarDutta, also known as India's Enid Blyton, on Tuesday said it was time Assamese literature moved beyond the entertainment-based approach to childr...

True Review Movie - Udta Punjab

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoo,r Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh

Director: Abhishek Chaubey

Produced: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramadity...

Kaleidoscope - Honesty Or Racism?

It’s a hot topic right now—millions of refugees from Islamic countries flocking to Europe and tilting the population balance. Already, prophets of doom are pred...

Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...

Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She wo...