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Documentary pays homage to Jews victimised during WW II
By S. Ravi
Keeping alive the horrors of the genocide that the Nazis committed against the Jews is required for soul-searching and impressing upon the millennials to rise beyond caste, creed, race and religion. Recently, the International…
Books & Literature
What it means to be a woman in Modern India
By Sukant Deepak
She was in London when she saw the image of the hanging children, aged 16 and 14, circulating on Twitter. Though she had planned to write a book about the wave of sexual…
“Always had a storyteller in me”
By Siddhi Jain
Kochery C Shibu, a former navy veteran and now a bestselling author of Men and Dreams in the Dhauladhar, says that there was a story teller in him since school days. The 1981 National Defence Academy graduate adds that a…
Understanding world cinema through 10th century Kashmiri philosophy
By Vishnu Makhijani
A new book that unravels the
nuances of world cinema
harkens back to the 10th century philosopher Abhinavagupta (924-1020), a highly revered Kashmiri Shaiva master, as it pays tribute to his commentary on the…
Career Options in Beauty Industry
Ranjan K Baruah
Many of us may wonder how beauty can be an industry.
We might think it can be an industry. If it is an industry then what is involved in it or who is associated with it, these kinds of thoughts would definitely come to…
Raj & Norah: A true story of love lost & found in WWII
Raj & Norah is not only a thrilling account of love found, lost and reclaimed in the midst of World War II, it is also a story of two extraordinary individuals battling against their circumstances and what fate has in store for them.…
Jatin Das ink-paints 2020’s migrant worker crisis
By Siddhi Jain
Highlighting the plight of daily wage workers during the nationwide lockdown last year, senior Indian artist and Padma Bhushan recipient Jatin Das will soon exhibit a series of ink paintings he did on the subject of mass…
Messages of love, hope from global litterateurs
By Siddhi Jain
Indian author, Ruskin Bond, and British spoken-word artist George the Poet e widely known for kicking off the Royal Wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry with his poem e are among the six prominent authors and poets to…
Women career scientists still face gender bias: UNESCO
Women still account for only 28 per cent of engineering graduates and 40 per cent of graduates in computer science and informatics, said a forthcoming UNESCO Science Report,
A chapter on gender in science from the report, called 'To be…
Want a Bill Gates to emerge from community: Transgender activist
Kalki Subramaniam is a transgender activist, artist and poet. She was one of the moving forces behind the Supreme Court judgment that gave rights to transgenders in the country.
Subramaniam was in Kozhikode to participate in the 2nd…